SoCal - sailing dinghy recommendations?

marke14

marke14

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Aug 12, 2014
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Universal Marine Montego 25 San Pedro, CA
Wow there are some great sailing dinghies for sale that are not quite right generally because they are too large for my purpose but many are very expensive as well.

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This one looks amazing. Check out the gaff rig!
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Very cool:
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jssailem

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SBO Weather and Forecasting Forum Jim & John
Oct 22, 2014
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Lido 14's are fun.
 
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I'll third or fourth the Snark idea. It's the boat I learned to sail in. Ultra fast to rig, a breeze to get back upright if you turtle, easy to get back into from the water. We had the hard-plastic hulled version called a Super Snark. Never worried about the hull on the beach.
 
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jssailem

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Oct 22, 2014
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I learned that if you are spry you can get out of the Lido cockpit onto the centerboard as she is going over, give her a tug on the main sheet if still in your hand and she will start to right herself. At which time you scramble back into the boat and only get wet up to your knees in the process. Then you the grab the cutoff Clorox bottles and bail like hell to stay up with your fellow racers knowing that one of them is going to have a similar issue and your going to get back near the lead.
 
shemandr

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Jan 1, 2006
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PaulK said:
Lots of people around here sail Dyer Dhows.
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I once watch a powerboat guy rig up his Dyer Dhow and sail it around the anchorage in Coecles Harbor for hours. Never have I seen a guy so relaxed and enjoying sailing like that. His body hung over every side of that thing but he was at ease.
 
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jssailem said:
I learned that if you are spry you can get out of the Lido cockpit onto the centerboard as she is going over, give her a tug on the main sheet if still in your hand and she will start to right herself. At which time you scramble back into the boat and only get wet up to your knees in the process. Then you the grab the cutoff Clorox bottles and bail like hell to stay up with your fellow racers knowing that one of them is going to have a similar issue and your going to get back near the lead.
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What happens if you are un-spry?
 
BudGates

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Apr 19, 2012
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scoob said:
Look for a good used Montgomery 10 or a Montgomery 12 built by Jerry Montgomery by his company Montgomery Marine. The boats are no longer produced but many were built and Jerry's shop was in SoCal so that is where most of them reside. Both both boats are excellent sailing to windward and, if you are so inclined, will plane off the wind.

links showing the boats:

M10 - http://www.msogphotosite.com/Scripts/Boats/selectboat.php?id=9

M12 - http://www.msogphotosite.com/Scripts/Boats/selectboat.php?id=10
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I'll second that!

If you ever want to sail your dinghy with more than one adult onboard I would NOT recommend any dinghy smaller than 10 feet.

Believe it or not my favorite sailboat of all time is my Montgomery 10. It sails great, rows well, and (although I've never tried it) they say it does quite nicely with a small outboard. It not only is a lot of fun to sail or row around on but it also makes a nice tender for our larger boat. I doubt I'll ever sell her.
 
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jssailem

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SBO Weather and Forecasting Forum Jim & John
Oct 22, 2014
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marke14 said:
I am spry
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That is nice information to know. Now that you are out of the closet, so to speak, just how to you intend to use this newly discovered power? Will you need a new super person uniform? Perhaps the emblem of a pretzel leaping off a sailboat.;)
 
marke14

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Aug 12, 2014
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Universal Marine Montego 25 San Pedro, CA
Haha Js. You can consider me a super hero if you wish, I just wanted to say, I am perhaps on the younger end of the spectrum for this forum. I can do the contortionist thing when required. Like this

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That would be me, IN the lazarrette, while I was repositioning the outboard bracket backing plate.
 
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jssailem

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Oct 22, 2014
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Your good, but now you need to extend yourself and try that in a Montgomery 15.
I sold mine after I tried to entice a youth to hold the nuts on the outboard bracket while I stood by the transom and tightened the bolts. It was not pretty. Did get him back out but had to pull him out by his shoe laces.
 
marke14

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Aug 12, 2014
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Universal Marine Montego 25 San Pedro, CA
HA hahaha!!! I can picture it! :laugh:

If I "extend myself" any further, I couldn't fold myself into the space below decks! :biggrin:
 
BudGates

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Apr 19, 2012
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I had to crawl - squeeze - wiggle - extrude myself into and through the lazarette below the fuel tank shelf and under the motor-well to hold the nuts at the bottom of my outboard bracket while my wife tightened the screws from the transom. It took me about 10 minutes to get into that position and another 30 minutes to get back out. I was getting close to the point of having the wife call for help. I would have been much better off to find a 10 year old kid to climb in there.
 
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jssailem

jssailem

SBO Weather and Forecasting Forum Jim & John
Oct 22, 2014
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BudGates said:
I had to .....- extrude myself into and through the lazarette below the fuel tank shelf and under the motor-well to hold the nuts ..... while my wife tightened the crew from the transom. It took.... 10 minutes to get into that position and another 30 minutes to get back out. ..... much better off to find a 10 year old kid to climb in there
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This had me LOL... :laugh: Thanks Bud.
You must have one of those open arrangements.... 40 Minutes.... plenty of time for most crew to get tightened... :yikes:
Only suggestion, be careful about the 10 year olds. Labor and abuse laws can be onerous unless a reliable relative. :biggrin:
 
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