Sold my 505 today. Mixed emotions.
Aaron R. from Santa Cruz bought for use as a fleet loaner or some such. Nice guy and active in the fleet. It turns out the previous owner, Dan, was a friend of his. When I showed up at TISC, he was already packing up the boat. I gave him a few bags of sails, he handed me a check. I sort of felt I had borrowed their boat for a few years and they were picking it back up.
I put a lot of imagination into the idea of sailing 505s, and never ended up sailing either one I owned that much. But I think I had a couple of my best-ever days on the water on the wire of a 5-0. I found the boat hard to rig, fragile in our heavy weather, and the fleet a bit advanced and impenetrable. But who knows, maybe I’ll sail one again someday.
Down to 1 sailboat. Better buy a Laser.
Yes, buy a Laser. In fact, buy two — then Tuna and I can race you and HKE!