Originally Posted by
Herbie53
It is an adrenaline junky sorta boat. We have a club boat that you could try. It's an older design and kinda rickety but it works.
Starter boats can be had for around $3k (now's a pretty good time to buy if you can). There are some other designs racing out of our club as well (F16's and Inter 20's). You could crew on one of those (acats are single handed) to give it a go for zero investment.
PM me and I can line something up.
Acat class site
http://www.usaca.info/
West River Sailing Club
http://www.westriversc.org/
Thanks for the info, but it's more of a hypothetical thing, or at least a maybe when I'm out of college thing. Gotta stick to cycling for the time being.