imagineero wrote:
Any thoughts on this dinghy;

http://www.stevproj.com/FastSailrs.html

Its the second one down on the page, the 'mini cup'. You have to
download a 2mb pdf file to see all the plans for it (which are free),
but there are a couple of pictures you can see if you click on the link
for pictures. It looks a lot faster than the scows Ive been looking
at, and not really too much harder to build.... but the sail! Horror
of horrors, its a nasty looking piece of work, but will it work?

The wing dinghy on the same page at the top looks like a lot more fun,
but a bit more work to build also. The plans are cheap enough at $25,
but they're out of stock :-(

Thanks,
Shaun

I love my MiniCups and I built two of them, a trailer to haul them and
a dolly to carry them to the water. I have built several iterations of
sails for them. They sail very well.
So, get the plans but do not strictly go by them because they are for
1970s era boatbuilding methods.
Here is my site for MiniCup building:

http://home.mindspring.com/~ohara5.0/

At the time I wrote it, I did not have much experience with epoxy and
fiberglas so I couldnt properly glass them. I am now glassing them.

The visqueen sails work ok but soon fall apart as the duct tape fails
in water. I tried various things as I discuss in the site. Currently,
I am using sewn polytarp sails that work very well. My next project
for them will be reefable sails. I have used my MiniCups so much that
they are nearly worn out which is why I am now rebuilding them with
glass.
Andrew Butchard also has good info on his MiniCup building.

Good Luck and have fun

David OHara