Sailing a Solution dinghy November 2025

As many know, I don't just design and sail multihulls. I am also a keen dinghy sailor, having been racing in a huge variety of different singlehanders for over 60 years. For the last 5 years or so I've been racing a singlehander with an asymmetric spinnaker - as seen in the heading photo. But as I'm now well into my 70s I found it a bit too challenging in winds over 15 knots. I bought a 13ft Solution dinghy at the end of last summer. This video is on one of my early sails, before I had got used to the boat and had set it up as I wanted. I hadn't taken any video from a dinghy for a few years and so this one was a bit of a test for a suitable setup. It wasn't great having the mount by the shrouds, even though it was out of my way. So I had to handhold the camera for a while. Anyway, at least it shows you my sailing/racing area, near the mouth of the river Tamar in Plymouth. More on the Solution here http://www.solutionclass.org/ And on my club here https://www.tmsc.org.uk/page/dinghy-sailing-at-tmsc