I'd say a Laser with a beach trolley would do the job.

A Sabre on a beach trolley no problems. Sabres only weigh 42kg ish.....easy to sail and very very popular now days in most States.

ultrleisure said...
Thanks for your reply, I would have the cross one set of lights on a main road, would this be an issue?

Go the sabre unless you are super fit , then go laser

Traffic lights .... Wait for the little green man , you,ll be right

ultrleisure said...

Also is there any sort of catamaran that can be wheeled down?

Wheeled down suggests to me that there is also going to be an "up", like as in maybe a hill or at least an incline. You have of course considered your own physical condition to lug this boat back home after a tiring day on the water?

The laser has the advantage the mast comes apart so its a more compact unit to be pulling along. However this is the only advantage to a Laser, they are heavy, uncomfortable to sail and not at all pleasant to sail. There are plenty about, they will carry two people. They were never actually built as a singlehander, prior to their selection as an Olympic class they used to have two people onboard for title events in countries of people of small stature. The class rules never stated how many people to be carried, the design was for a fun lake boat. Spiral and Tasman Tiger are similar to the Laser in concept. Real dinghies will have longer masts that may make it awkward to pull along the road. There will be a need to have a front support to keep the tip of the mast well clear of pedestrians.
Tough time to be buying. Even the rubbish boats on eBay[dinghies] are selling for lots of money. Only good buy at the moment and its a two man boat is the classic Fireball.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/190731871838?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649.

Plenty of cheap Sabre's in SA, class is strong there, as many have moved into newer boats....ask around the clubs there.
Doubt your going to find these Snarks or Walker Bay 8s around in Australia much, the Snark looks similar to a Sunfish....and by your description your getting into Sailing Canoe territory.
There were these things called Fold a boats or Porta Boats some years back that had a mast n sail combo, that may be the sort of potability your after.....wouldn't take one onto the Gulf in a Breeze though.

Unfortunately $9000 for a Sabre sailboat is a bit above the budget. I might consider an outrigger kayak that could sail, there is a Hobie adventure island but its also a bit much at $3200.

When you say cheap, roughly what price is considered cheap?

ohhh ok, I typed sabre sail boat into classifieds and got $8900. Actually now I see it is a new build high gloss timber version.

There is no need to look further than Seabreeze - www.seabreeze.com.au/Classifieds/Sail-Boats/~aaima/Hobie-Holder-14--14-0.aspx That's a lot of boat for a $3k asking price and I'm sure you could wheel the trailer by hand especially if you removed the lights and mudguards to make it lighter.

Flying 11 would be small and light enough for what you need....pretty sure they come in under 50 kilos....not sure how they sail cat rigged though, and boom is fairly low if your an adult.

Spirals are very heavy and would require a trolley. Very popular locally and some older ones go cheaply [$400] They have the advantage of being able to use different sail makers. Scaled down Laser with most of the Lasers faults corrected, sort of. All age groups and an excellent association. They only hold their travelling events where camping is allowed.
Flying Eleven hull is light, I can carry one a short distance. Had two over the years to teach my kids to sail. I used to sail it with one kid as crew but they are easy to sail singlehanded with full rig.

hmmm, perhaps you might need to consider wind surfing then.

ultrleisure said...
Ohh there is another big problem now and this time it looks like it makes the whole idea impossible, at the lights there is a 'turn left at any time with care' lane before the lights with an island which probably nothing would fit.

Well there is still the slightly less exciting sport of box kite flying lol.

just get out and act like a car at the lights with your trolley, we did all the time with a moth and 2 flying ants, sometimes a mirror(now theres a great yacht ,should find one of those under $1000). even did it with a 470

Sounds like your options are limited, in reality you should be looking at windsurf boards, there are some around where you can go out in very little wind, they are very light, a resonable second hand set up will cost you between $500 and $1000 and its sailing, your standing up though which is the only diffarance.

Its the only sailing gear I would want to drag around several blocks, up and down a boat ramp.

Besides kite surfing gear which you can carry down to your local beach and dare I say it...go sailing