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Conference unifix::sailing

Title:SAILING
Notice:Please read Note 2.* before participating in this conference
Moderator:UNIFIX::BERENS
Created:Wed Jul 01 1992
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2299
Total number of notes:20724

918.0. "Solos, Contenders, OKs?" by CHEFS::SHEPHERDJ () Thu Jul 21 1988 10:21

    I'm thinking of doing some single-handed racing in the SUK. Do any
    contributors to this notes file have a view on appropriate racing
    dinghy classes.
    
    I have sailed lasers and I'm not particularly impressed - I'm looking
    more for a boat than a plank. Any views on the Solo, Contender,
    OK ?
    
    ...Jon
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918.1ODIHAM::JORDANChris Jordan, London Region AC, UKFri Dec 23 1988 09:0721
    I know that I am 6 months out of date.... but here is some
    information...
    
    SOLO - Good BOAT (rather than a plank!). Slower than the OK, LASER
    etc. Available in wood or glass-fibre or home built. Strict one-design.
    Very comfortable to sail, tends not to be sailed by the 15-25 year
    old super-fits. Enough space to take others in it if required. Numbers
    are up to about 3700 - UK only. (About 5 or 6 sailed regularly at
    Burghfiled, just outside Reading, UK).
    
    OK - Another boat. Space to get one person in only. Often sailed
    by people wearing bicycle type crash helmets! - the boom is low,
    VERY low. Good, cheap second hand buy. BUT the mast can be a problem,
    leading to a slow boat, on older ones. Tends to be sailed by people
    a little fitter and tougher than SOLO sailors. Wood or glass fibre
    - not many home built.

    CONTENDER - a flyer!! - trapeze on a single hander - Glass fibre only. 
    Super fit swimmers only need apply!