Tough Decisions for an Optimist

So I found out the other day that Draycote were selling their fleet of Optimists... ranging from about £200 to £600.. I immediately got very excited and thought yey! I can buy my boys a boat for the spring, get them sailing properly next year etc etc...(big grin on face)... then I thought about the condition of the boats.. Ifigure a couple of hundre quid for a first boat is fine to get them interested, but if tha equates to the worst, most battered boat in the fleet then maybe thats not so good...

Then I got to thinking hold on they're selling all the Optimists.. they're using Cadets and Pico's as the training boats... how much fun is a lone Optimist going to be, whether or not I spent many a happy year in the damn things, whats my son's gonna feel like being the only Optimist there...

It was a tough one for me, I'd love them to follow in dads foot=steps, but I also dont want to rush them into anything... so thats it.. the chance has sailed by, I haven't (for the moment) bought a boat for the kids and well, I'll keep deliberating!

Pico... Optimist...Cadet... Solo... Enterprise... too many ideas...