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Dinghy sailing

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jamottep

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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?
 
jamottep said:
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?
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Everybody in the SSS has a dinghy in their backyard, storage, garage. Mine is a Lido 14. It is the Pearson Vanguard of dinghies ;-). Its name is Pia Mater. You probably want a fast dinghy, yes?
 
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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/d/lark-14-sailboat-trailer/6733443530.html

Snipe
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/boa/d/1966-schock-boat-and-trailer/6749607506.html

Capri Cyclone (Catalina)
https://sacramento.craigslist.org/boa/d/cyclone-sailboat-13-trailer/6752052781.html

Vagabond 14 - same as Holder 14 / Hobie 14

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/boa/d/vagabond-sailboat/6746793517.html
 
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.
 
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