Each year mid-August our Club organises a race in Bics for adults. It is fun, even watching this.
Marek -------- Original message -------- From: coltrek via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Date: 8/30/17 12:46 (GMT-05:00) To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: coltrek <colt...@verizon.net> Subject: Re: Stus-List considering 1981 C&C 25 Well okay, maybe I should requalified this. I have to agree with Ron on the thistle thing. I had a thistle once in a previous life, my brother and I and two girls were out on it, got three miles out in the lake, got a puff - my brother was driving, had the main cleated - long story short we went over, spent 45 minutes thinking that the boat was going to sink. It never did, but it was enough to freak him and this other girl out. Oddly enough, the boat had come with a little bit of polyurethane foam strapped underneath the brace by the Mast. But it was all rotting, and I had taken it out, and not replaced it yet . Obviously big mistake. After that, I decided I wanted a boat that would not flip over. So I got a Star. Then after the second year, got an accidental jibe, couldn't get the running back quick enough, watched the masked curl forward... After that, I decided I didn't want a boat with running backs. Got a Soling. Wonderful boat. Easy, fun, fast. Ken Read came to our club this spring and gave a wonderful talk. He kind of lambasted our sailing school for having Optis and flying juniors, 470's. . . He said his daughter was in a sailing school, an Opti flipped over and sink underneath her. Freaked her out so bad that she still doesn't sail to this day. Obviously, he's very sad about that. I think he liked the Bics for the little kids, and thought that we should actually be getting into foiling just so that it would excite the older kids. My point was just that to actually learn to sail is best on a small boat. Preferably one that you can flip back over and drain out. Then you can learn how to sail a bigger boat and not get freaked out by things happening, as the forces increase exponentially. Doesn't take much of a bad experience to turn somebody completely off of sailing. Regards, Bill C&C 39 Erie
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