We just bought a 14' O'day Javelin to day sail while we
refit our
Pearson for cruising. Figured it would also be a nice
boat for my wife to sail since she has not sailed a
small boat since high
school. The Javelin came with main,
jib and
spinnaker so it has all the same
sails as our
Pearson just at a very smaller scale.
Has anyone here owned or sailed one of these boats? If so is there anything we should watch out for? We would like to keep her on a
mooring, is it truly self bailing as advertised? The fractional rig seems a bit flimsy to me, can she be sailed in anything over 10 knots of
wind?
About 5000 were made over ten years and the
price for this one with
trailer and 2 hp
Honda was to hard to pass up.