I've been advised multiple times that I should catch up on dinghy sailing. I'm 6'6" and in Redwood City.
Would anyone have one to try out? Maybe get me started?
I've been advised multiple times that I should catch up on dinghy sailing. I'm 6'6" and in Redwood City.
Would anyone have one to try out? Maybe get me started?
You can rent a Catalina 14.4 at Shoreline Lagoon in Mountain View by the hour. No rigging, no de-rigging, no trailer.
https://shorelinelake.com/sailing.html
LASER is cheap and sensitive. FINN would be more expensive, needs a big body, and you'd feel at home with the big guys.
VANGUARD 15 has a good local fleet, and could be sailed singlehanded or raced with a smallish crew. A WYLIE WABBIT needs a crew, would give good spinnaker practice, and can be raced in the Bay with a PHRF of 126. All these dinghies like breeze, which is usually in abundance on SF Bay/Redwood City waters, and are tough and pretty indestructible.
There are umpty-ump dinghies for sale on Craigslist for <$1,000, all the time. Lido 14's up the yingyang, flying juniors, lasers, banshees, Hobie/Holder 14's.
Banshee's were made in Redwood City, so there's a local connection.
C-Lark 14, make by Clark boats in Puget Sound
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/boa...733443530.html
Snipe
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/boa...749607506.html
Capri Cyclone (Catalina)
https://sacramento.craigslist.org/bo...752052781.html
Vagabond 14 - same as Holder 14 / Hobie 14
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/boa...746793517.html
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I just saw an ad, I think it was on Lat38, that was giving away a Laser for $100 or some good beer. It might be gone by now though it didn't have a trailer and was limited in sails, but that's the great thing about small boats....the parts and pieces are several degrees of magnitude cheaper.
I bought my Holder 14 for $800. Great shape too. No trailer.