Hi,
I'm thinking of building a Spindrift as my first boat project. I've read the pros and cons that people have said about the one vs two piece Spindrifts. I am leaning towards the nesting models for easier storage and hopefully strapping onto a smallish sailboat in the future.
I have a couple of questions.
- capsize recovery and bailing: if I'm alone, it would be nice to not have to bail two sections. How about embedding a pluggable tube into the center seat so you could equalize the water level?
- covering up the forward section as someone talked on the forum for the same reason. Would it make a difference in weight distribution? Ideally, this would be removable (but that might be hard to make waterproof enough).
- size: 9' for storage reasons, 11' for space on the water. Opinions? I'd be sailing/training mostly single handed, but also with one or two kids - teen and tween. I think weightwise we'd still be OK on the 9' but maybe not for long.
Any thoughts / experiences that would help choosing?
