Fast Sailing
Created | Updated Apr 14, 2002
If you want a small fast racing dinghy, then you can't beat the 505, however for the uninitiated it can result in a lot of swimming - something I suppose a boat is meant to stop. You also tend to need some sort of a gorilla hanging off the side of it to avoid even more swimming. If I eventually work out how to get a picture onto this thing I'll paste it in, but for now you'll just have to dream about blasting away with the wind in your hair and the salty spray on your face. The other way to go for the posing and blasting with wind etc etc but without quite so much swimming is the catamaran option. You go a lot faster and can get a lot wetter from the spray but it is harder to end up swimming; however if you do end up swimming maybe the phrase "don't panic" is inappropriate! It is a real pain in the **** getting the thing to have the big pointy thing pointing at the sky again, but if its warm you can swim around your big upside down platform and commune with the dolphins I guess whilst you wait for someone to come and fish you out. Again I have a personal prefernce for the type of Cat. here and that would have to go to the Hobie 18 - twin trapezes are really the only way to go, and the speed really is quite phenomenal - if anyone hangs around down in Charmouth, Dorset UK then they'll probably see one particular Hobie 18 with big fluoro pink sails cruising around - give us a wave as we go past!
