Hey

The main reason i haven't got a taipan right now is for 4 reasons.
1. I cant find one for reasonable price
2. Since im only 16 and weight 68 i was told that i would learn more in a hobie 16 and i ont weight enough to keep it flat.
3. I sail at a club which sails hobies only but the other club does sail taipans but i feel like a younging since the youngest person ive seen sail a taipan is about 26
4. Not sure if the taipan is the best way to go, even though a taipan is a great boat the tiger seems to be a better boat to me but at the moment i have no idea.
5. High Maintance is a good and bad but finance wise isn't to good for a boat like that.

With these reasons this throws me in to confusion again.

With HIGH/LOW maintance i meen for do they need alot off work for example.
I bought my hobie 16 about 1 or 2 years ago and i have put a lot of work into it and now i have not broken any thing from when i put the new gear on. So i haven't had to do any maintance since ive fixed up my boat which was from the first month.
I cant see how you broke the traveler car because i haven't come any where near that and i dont sail in strong winds but when i sailed it in about 35 knots i still didn't brake it. The only way you would of broken it is if you dont normaly sail them because you are ment to tie a knot on the travelor sheet so it stops the cart from hiting the edge of the boat.

Well i thank all of you for your help i think i real need it.

Jules