Escape Captiva Sailboat with Trailer (Chattanooga, TN)

Escape Captiva Sailboat with Trailer

Escape Captiva Sailboat with Trailer Sailboat is in excellent condition including hull daggerboard tiller rudder boom ropes mast and sail. It has been stored in a garage. Autosail Sailtrimdex markings have faded away (could be redrawn with permanent markers). Except for flag piece Windicator has been lost (could be replaced with a little improvisation).From experience You can sail with as little as 5 mph winds and it will plane off.Additional info year 2000 overall length 11.5 ft overall width 4.5 ft overall height (including mast) 22.33 ft designed for up to 3 adults SmartRig sail plan 2 cup holders included documents Learn to Sail video (VHS) manual Learn to Sail Escape tutorialComes with performance boat trailer that is in excellent condition including tires and lights.Trailer info year 1998 model L-14 weight rating of 780 lb included documents Certificate of Origin of Vehicle ownership and operation guide maintenance guideReview from Outside Magazine July 1998 One look at this boat s screaming yellow plastic hull in the water and you can t help but have kiddie bathtub flashbacks Rubber Ducky lives But this ain t no tub toy. With 20 knots of wind the Captiva puts its leeward shoulder into the bay the hull growls like a rottweiler and the bow bashes the waves to pieces. It doesn t try to capsize though and it gives a feeling of security I ve never known aboard a dinghy. Quite simply the Captiva does for sailing what shaped boards do for alpine skiing it builds in proficiency and confidence that heretofore came only from experience. While the bow is V-shaped the hull flattens toward the stern giving the boat amazing stability under sail. Furthermore the thing actually tells the clueless what to do. A built-in wind direction indicator sort of a wind vane-cum-pie chart points to colored sections that correspond to markings on the mast. Sheet in or out until the colors match and just like that you re sailing. Another brilliant original feature lets you roll the mainsail in or out like a window shade so you can reduce the sail area reef in boatspeak when the wind is too much for the sail s 62 square feet. For all its stability you obviously give up potential speed. In all the 11.5-foot Captiva is perfect for autodidacts who want to teach themselves sailing parents who want to teach their kids or anybody who prizes the essentials. From Sailing Magazine June 1999 The Escape series offers beginners and experts alike a very user-friendly boat in an ultradurable package. I started with the original Captiva model because I was looking for a sailing dinghy for my beach cabin. It replaced a well-used Bruynzeel plywood El Toro in which I taught my two sons to sail. The El Toro was not happy being hauled up over our rocky beach and had to be carried in and out of the water. The construction of the Escapes meant that I could slide the Captiva over the rocks with impunity. My wife fell in love with the Captiva. She found that the color-matching Autosail system made sail trimming easy and she felt she could sail without any coaching from me. Soon she wanted her own Escape so we could race. Another feature that makes the Escapes suitable for beginners is their stability. These little boats are as stiff as churches. There is a performance price to pay for this stability but it s a worthwhile compromise when you sail in 49-degree water. Stability also plays a huge role in developing confidence quickly in a beginner. From another seller It is very stable very easy to setup and sail. It features an innovative SmartRig sail plan. The SmartRig is a patented sail plan that offers the ultimate user-friendly benefit When the wind comes up you can instantly make the sail smaller simply by pulling on the single control line. No other sailplan can claim instant adjustment of the sail size. Instead of being attached to the mast the SmartRig s boom is independently mounted to the deck. When rolling the sail in or out this arrangement allows the mast to spin freely and without added friction from a boom coupling. The boom is also set at a fixed height which means it cannot come crashing down on your head as with the antiquated systems used on other small sailboats. It also features AutoSail a self teaching sailing system The on deck Windicator literally shows you the wind where you can sail versus the wind and how to trim your sail. Beneath the Windicator s pointer is a colored pie chart. Colored zones indicate safe sailing the stop zone is for stopping and the duck zone is for ducking your head. At the base of each sailplan is a matching color coordinated pie chart and a sail arrow. Simply steer the boat and trim the sail to bring the sail arrow to the same color on the pie chart that the Windicator points to on its pie chart. It couldn t be any easier.