Bart wrote:
Review: Norlin 2.4M Mk III

http://www.inter24metre.org/files/suppliers.htm

This is the 78 different sailboat I've sailed, and one
of the most fun. A great little boat and a fun time. I'd
like to sail one again. I'm seriously considering buying
one.


They come up on Ebay for cheap. They are easy to trailer.


I had a chance to sail one of these this morning. It is
a small boat, about the length of a Sunfish, but with a
3.3" draft. Beam can vary in this class--the Norlin is I'll
guess 30". It holds one person, and looks like a mini
12 meter, sans spinnaker--not having a spinnaker was
a disappointment. I sailed it in light air and didn't get
wet, you will get wet in heavier air.

Yep. Years ago I sailed a match race series in mini-12s or Illusions
or something like that. They are wet boats, very low, I remember they
had a diaphragm type bilge pump mounted right next to the tiller.
Motorboat wakes came right into the cockpit, the things need a skirt
like a kayak.

The ones I sailed did not have a real spinnaker but instead a balloon
gennaker that was supposed to be set on a pole but we just ran wing &
wing holding it out by hand.

A Laser would sail rings around it. More fun to sail in a big fleet
than match racing, with their heavy weight & very short waterlines,
they would go almost exactly the same speed (given skilled handling) &
place a premium on tactics.

I thought they were kind of tedious to rig up from scratch, the ones I
sailed had heavy hulls & shaped pieces of ballast that had to be fit
into the keel sump and locked in place, then the rig was kind of
complex to set up.

I bet that in the right setting, these would be very good boats for
spectators to watch racing. The races would be very close and the legs
would not need to be very long.

Fresh BReezes- Doug King