Peter, thanks again for the advice,it will be priceless to me. To answer your last question on cat or sloop i would imagine that 1 sail might be enough for starters (maybe just the jib) ha ha , but seriously will try cat rigged and see how that feels ,I was hoping to teach my son 16,daughter 12 as we go ,would you suggest this to be a good thing ?, also i am keen to sail solo but am a little hesitant to do so until i learn how to right a inverted yacht correctly so my dilemma is do i take out my son and have two people onboard that are out of control. i have done some twilight classes at the royal geelong yacht club just recently in 4.3 fibreglass dinghy's that were fairly quick and a bit of a handfull in 20knts with gusts,and we ended up wet,only once though. Anyway hope im not boring you to much , do you think i should try in a lake first or just go for it and learn quickly, i have many years experience in surfing ,but would like some opinion on this please. And thanks again for the link on the books, Think i will purchase the start to finish one unless there is a better one for me at this time. I am still at repainting stage and havent had the mast up yet so i will be learning a lot about how to do that in the next week or 2. Thanks again Brett

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