Super Snark Sailing!!!

[HobieMarty]

Some of you may know that I had acquired a Snark sailboat last October and have been refurbishing it in anticipation of a family trip to the beach in Miramar (Destin), Florida. The weather wasn't very cooperative at first, but then yesterday was a perfect day for sailing a small dingy in the gulf, and I had a blast!!! I lived a street over from where we were staying this time and used to sail a little Snark boat that was included with the rental I lived at back in 1987. It was the best summer ever!!! It was so much fun to sail at the same beach that I sailed at 37 years ago and blending old memories with new ones!!!

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[VINMAN]

Very cool! I had one of those for a little while. Fun boat.

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[Tobra]

Must be a test run, no fishing gear

[3rd_gear_Ted]

Talk to me about when the boat capsizes and getting back in? I learned real quick in Cancun, they have salt water Crocs in the lagoons.
I've since graduated to a J-22 I rent from a sailing club. awesome sailboat.

[LWJ]

I absolutely loved my little 21’ dinghy! Small boats are probably the apex of sailing joy.

[tdw28210]

Looks like fun! Enjoy!

[HobieMarty]

Originally Posted by LWJ

I absolutely loved my little 21’ dinghy! Small boats are probably the apex of sailing joy.

Yep, it's just a simple design. There's nothing complicated about this little boat at all. It was a very fun day on the water.
I have a Hobie 16 also, but I just love this little boat!!!

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[HobieMarty]

Originally Posted by Tobra

Must be a test run, no fishing gear

It was my first outing in this boat, I like to keep things clutter free, in fact, I took that kayak paddle apart because it kept getting in my way, but I have no plans for fishing from my sailboats, lol.

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[Zeke]

Man, depending on the lens, you look like your're out there. What are you? The young man and the sea?

Note: I misspelled "you're" but I kinda like it. Takes care of the ubiquitous problem of more than half the English writers using the possessive form. If you don't understand, your're one of those.

[pwd72s]

Fond memories of my old Chrysler Mutineer. Reminds me of when an Aussie friend on the rudder of it told his wife: "I could live the rest of my life without water skiing, but I think I'd die if I couldn't sail again." Yes, something's magical about controlling the wind to make a boat move...spiritual, even.

(edit) From my experience, the smaller the sail craft, the more direct the feelings of sailing are...that's the spiritual part.

[Tidybuoy]

I used to have a 14' Flying Jr which was a blast to sail.

Every time I took it to our local lake, the license plate fell off the trailer. I got new plates and better fasteners but again, lost the plate?? One day as I was pulling into the marina, someone pulled up behind me and handed me my license plate. The told me that every time I went around a curve, the boat was airborne on one side and riding on just one wheel - problem solved - don't be in such a hurry to get on the water.

[HobieMarty]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Man, depending on the lens, you look like your're out there. What are you? The young man and the sea?

Note: I misspelled "you're" but I kinda like it. Takes care of the ubiquitous problem of more than half the English writers using the possessive form. If you don't understand, your're one of those.

I was a good bit offshore. There is a sandbar out there, and I was sailing out past it into some pretty deep stuff. I'm 58, so I guess I would be the "old man in the sea" to some. Lol.

All pics were taken with my phone by the way.

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[Bill Douglas]

Beautiful. Small enough to not be a whole lot of trouble to handle. Big enough to be fun.

A friend had a Laser that I really liked. I guess this is it's close cousin.

[Tim Hancock]

I had one of those Snarks when I was in college. I think I paid $50 for it back then. I only used it a few times, but it was fun teaching myself kind of how to sail. At the time a college buddy had a nice Laser. That was what I really wanted but could not afford... Left my Snark to languish against the side of my parents house and it got hauled to the dump at some point by my dad. Wish I had kept it as my grandkids would have a blast with it now at the lake and river.

[greglepore]

Yeah, they're cool. I learned to sail on one in 1977, bought it at Woolco on closeout.
If you do roll it, the key to getting back in is using the centerboard as a lever, just put your weight on the end and hope the sheet came undone before the wind catches the boat.

[HobieMarty]

I learned to sail with a Sea Snark that my dad bought from a relative for 40 bucks. We lived in Valparaiso, Florida at the time, and I was 10 years old. The place I learned at was a park on Boggy Bayou called Lincoln Park, it was located in Valparaiso. We moved to Destin, Florida, a couple of years later, and lived at 607 Gulfshore drive across the two lane road from the beach, and my little Snark was destroyed in a storm. A few years later, I acquired a 14-foot Hobie Cat and learned to really "hot dog" it up with that boat, and I sailed a friend's Sunfish a time or two. In the summer of 1987 I lived with dad at a house on a private beach called Tango-Mar and there was a beat-up little Sea Snark on the side of the house and the owner of the house said I could use it as much as I wanted. I worked at a pizza hut nearby and got off work at 2pm. By 2:30pm, I would be on the water and would sail up and down the beach until sunset. I did this every day that I could until about a week before Thanksgiving of that year, and it was fantastic. On one outing, I sailed with a pod of dolphins, and it was the best day I ever had sailing that little boat.
The house we were staying in for our family beach vacation was only a street over from Tango-Mar, so it was a very special experience for me to be able to sail my Super Snark at the same beach that I had sailed at so many years ago and I am happy to get to share this with y'all!!!

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[HobieMarty]

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[HobieMarty]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

Beautiful. Small enough to not be a whole lot of trouble to handle. Big enough to be fun.

A friend had a Laser that I really liked. I guess this is it's close cousin.

I have a Hobie 16, but I wanted something that I could easily set up by myself and drop in the lake and go. When a friend found this little Snark at a Goodwill store nearby, I just had to get it!!! Best hundred bucks I ever spent!!!

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[unclebilly]

Originally Posted by HobieMarty

I learned to sail with a Sea Snark that my dad bought from a relative for 40 bucks. We lived in Valparaiso, Florida at the time, and I was 10 years old. The place I learned at was a park on Boggy Bayou called Lincoln Park, it was located in Valparaiso. We moved to Destin, Florida, a couple of years later, and lived at 607 Gulfshore drive across the two lane road from the beach, and my little Snark was destroyed in a storm. A few years later, I acquired a 14-foot Hobie Cat and learned to really "hot dog" it up with that boat, and I sailed a friend's Sunfish a time or two. In the summer of 1987 I lived with dad at a house on a private beach called Tango-Mar and there was a beat-up little Sea Snark on the side of the house and the owner of the house said I could use it as much as I wanted. I worked at a pizza hut nearby and got off work at 2pm. By 2:30pm, I would be on the water and would sail up and down the beach until sunset. I did this every day that I could until about a week before Thanksgiving of that year, and it was fantastic. On one outing, I sailed with a pod of dolphins, and it was the best day I ever had sailing that little boat.
The house we were staying in for our family beach vacation was only a street over from Tango-Mar, so it was a very special experience for me to be able to sail my Super Snark at the same beach that I had sailed at so many years ago and I am happy to get to share this with y'all!!!

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^^^ This is awesome.

[911 Rod]

Today I live vicariously through you. Thank you.