Topper junior single handed Sailing Dinghy > Reviews

Advantages: durable, affordable - simply fun to sail!
Disadvantages: NOT suitable for honey monsters!

...new - get um from Topper International - second hand, they've been around for a long time, they hold their price well, but you should get a middle aged one for less than 500 pounds (sorry the pound sign doesn't work on my keyboard!)- an older one could set you back 2-300 with original sail, and still give years of fun - like an old Volvo, you will be able to sell it for the same money when the kids grow out of it. Given a good blow - say around a ... Read review

Advantages: Sturdy for learning in, can be fun
Disadvantages: Very little room to duck under the boom

...to attach these to the topper under instruction, and then we were given a short demonstration of how to use them, by an instructor on land. Then we had to go and practice the things which we had just been shown in our pairs before taking to the water. We were mainly practicing ducking under the boom without getting tangled up in the raopes that were attached to the sails. My experience of these boats: If you already know anything about topper ... Read review

Advantages: Vertually indistructable
Disadvantages: Hard to have more than one person on board unless you like getting wet

The Topper is an excellent youth boat. It is the perfect progression towards sailing larger single handed dingys when you get older. It is now even better than when I sailed it. You can now modify it to have a centre main sheet which again aids the transfer to more powerful boats in the future. It is great for people new to the sport and can take the battering of children or the not so in control sailors. I for one have had 12 people on it at ... Read review

Advantages: easy way to get out on the water, 2nd hand can be picked up cheaply
Disadvantages: not really a performance boat

...up a cheap second hand topper (approx £450). The boat requires little to no maintainence and is ready to sail whenever I am nearby and the wind is blowing (hopefully not too much). It has a plastic (technical term!!) hull and deck and one sail. The boat is easily transported on top of a car and can be easily stored down the side of a house. It really is a very adaptable boat. The title calls it a junior boat--this is a little misleading as it is ... Read review

Advantages: you dont need to know much to be able to sail a topper all you realey need to know is how to put the mast in and put the boom (wich is the horizontal pole) they are very boyant and made from a strong fibre glass hull the boat its self goes quite fast
Disadvantages: they can capsize if not handeld properly

...are going in an your topper and you run aground or crash into something wich cracks or punctures the hull or ruptures any I have been on sailing lessons and the boat I was taught on was a topper. After I completed the course I went to the loch which rented them out from then on I go at least every second week in all types of weather so my dad finally decided to get me a topper. So he phoned the dinghy store and they ordered me one in. they can be ... Read review