Both take up little room. You can move that hang glider further in and easily find room for the windsurfer and kiteboard. Most windsurfers are in recycle shops by now, I keep buying the masts but I have a lot of competition.

What I want to know is where are all the old sailing dinghies gone? Its quite noticeable this season how few are on the market compared to yachts. Plastic cats are being sold ridiculously cheap, I guess they take up a bit of real estate. Fireball in Adelaide on a trailer for $200 but there has to be a lot rotting away some where.

ultrleisure said...
Some of the smallest sailboats like the flying ant that was mentioned say when you look up the specs designed for ages less than 18. Is this because the boom is to low or the carrying capacity not enough? Are they still suitable for one adult?

One slightly built adult can sail one but its really an early teens boat where they learn all about spinnaker handling. Miles of room under the boom.

LooseChange said...
And just why won't the kiteboard end up under the house with the windsurfer? Essentially they are both the same thing.

Kite boarding is cool now because the marketing boys have decided that windsurfing is not cool. Just wait till the next fad comes along and the marketing boys will have you all parting with your dollars while they gleefully rub their hands, dreaming up the next scheme.

You say that to a windsurfer and he might bite your head off,

Well its not a marketing thing at all, windsurfing is still very popular with a dedicated crowd, its just no longer fasionable to the degree of every coastal house hold having a kit.

sleek1 said...
Hey Loose change get off your couch!!!

Huh? I am off my couch, I've taken two months off from work and am now busily building new kitchen and painting inside the house.

LooseChange said...

sleek1 said...
Hey Loose change get off your couch!!!

Huh? I am off my couch, I've taken two months off from work and am now busily building new kitchen and painting inside the house.

well if you windsurf or kite that would never get done.internal decorating is the biggest fad of them all.

ultrleisure said...
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Regarding catamarans are there any that could be beach assembled?

How about one of these?

www.thisnext.com/

I assume the holdfast trainer couldn't be sailed by one adult for casual off-beach non racing sailing?

First one costs too much.

I looked at the rebel cat before, looks good made from pvc pipe I think, it said not suitable for the sea, but does that include just cruising along 200m off the beach?