Here’s an awesome video of myself and my cousin enjoying some amazing sunfish sailing. This is the first type of boat that I actually sailed my self. I could not believe how well I understood it from my kiteboarding background. They say small sailboats are the hardest to sail and perfect your skills. I agree, and the hardest thing for me to learn was how to respond from “feeling” so directly as on a kite vs “seeing” as on a sailboat. More specifically seeing the sail shape, the tell-tales, the apparent wind, etc. I recommend sailing a sunfish to everybody!
Love this video. You can see the pure joy on y’alls faces and it reminds me of when I learned how to sail years ago on my dad’s old sailboat. Those hours on the small sailboat helped me more easily learn how to windsurf and sail bigger boats. Once you get the concept of wind angles, turning and not flipping over it’s pretty easy!