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Why does a youth team like a 505? In our case 8535 Rondar boat?
1. It goes like a rocket (PY 906).
2. On our lake you can beat well-sailed RS400s (PY 936).
3. A 3-sail reach is awesome above 15kt.
4. A 505 looks like a grown-up 420, it feels like a grown-up 420, it IS a grown-up 420.
5. You can actually tune the boat on the water.
6. No more sticking spinnaker poles to the tank and thwart with Velcro.
7. When your 420 helm suddenly grows 1 ft and adds 3 stone, what else can you do?
8. 505s are very comfortable at sea, and seaworthy.
9. 505s can be hauled up a ramp by a tired crew, without injury.
10. People help you eg. at Hayling Island SC, Bill Masterman, David Smithwhite, Mark U-B, Paul Young, with advice and tuning runs.
11. Assuming you have done a bit of race coaching, you can feel good in 505 right away, on day 1, 5 miles offshore.
12. Assuming the race coaching bit, contrary to certain popular opinion in the bar, you CAN wire-to-wire tack a 505 and enjoy it!
13. 505s are hard to capsize, but it can be done whilst reaching in a gust with the crew flat wiring, steering, and holding the spinnaker sheet, with the helm lying on the foredeck getting the rest of the ropes out from under the boat.
14. 505s last a long time.
There you have it: there may be more, better, seasoned comment later.
-- David Cram, Recently bought a used 505 for his boys |
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