I'm a 49 years old beginner sailorand I'm looking for a safe and hard to capsize single handed dinghy to learn basic sailing skills in it.
I want a boat very stable and forgiving,that so even when making inevitable "beginner mistakes"you will not easily end up in the water
Does Sunfish fit my requirements?
How resistant to capsize is it ?
Sorry to say but dinghies and capsizing are sort of hand in hand.
Lasers, from what I understand and have observed, are more tippy than a sunfish.
I guess I'm the only person who thinks pushing the sunfish to its limits and getting wet are a blast!
I guess I'm the only person who thinks pushing the sunfish to its limits and getting wet are a blast!
Everybody seems to want the ideal boat that never capsizes and forgives all your mistakes. The answer is: learn how to not make mistakes! I have not capsized in many moons after I learned how to react to the wind and how to read the water. If you don't know that, you will capsize no matter what. A Sunfish is so easy to right and fairly hard to capsize so that's the one to consider. There is no ideal boat!!!
Fred
Well said !I think it is an ideal platform to learn on. Small boats make the sailor. Sailors who jump up into big boats never nail down the skills they need. Big boats are more forgiving, that doesn't mean you don't need to nail down your skills on smaller boats first. Show me a man, or woman, who never sailed a dinghy, and I'll show you a sailor with huge holes in their knowledge.