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    Posted: 29 Jun 05 at 11:26am

Nah just laded between the hulls.

Here's some more from the worlds just gone.

 

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Ouch, it looks like one of the hulls is on top of the poor bloke in the water !
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Probably the most efficient rig designed behind the solid wind C Class cats.

18 foot long, all carbon and weigh in at 75 kg fully rigged.  Before the minimum weight rule, boats were down to 60 kg rigged.  Despite light weight....  Very tough boats.

Also argumently the quickest one man boat in the world.

With a very strong international Class

Some A Class skylacking

 

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and it looks like its got some speed
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wow thats one pretty boat
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Those A-class Flyers from the Taipan guys are a beautiful piece of kit.  A rich bugger got one recently at our club because he was frustrated with his Taipan and wanted a bit more speed!
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Originally posted by AndyMM

I had looked at Cats, they are everywhere but if I want them I can rent them for 35 Euros an hour.

You'll never hire anything worthy of being called a cat.

If you want a tough single handed HP cat that is easy to handle on shore, try an A Class Inter 17 or F-16.  Inter 17 and F-16 one up cat rigged and spinnaker also has the benifit of racing 2 up twin trap with kite and jib.

 

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Originally posted by Peter Rhodes

does that mean loads of people buy a rs600 realise it's rubbish and sell it to buy a contender thus eliminating their existance on the second hand market?

Nope, it certainly doesn't.

The two classes have very different performance profiles which appeal to quite different sailors - the RS600 is a modern high powered skiff, the Contender an excellent, but more traditional and stable boat.

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does that mean loads of people buy a rs600 realise it's rubbish and sell it to buy a contender thus eliminating their existance on the second hand market?
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For me the biggest difference is there are lots of RS600 around secondhand but very few Contenders.

This plus that fact they are both singlehanded Trapeze boats means they are exactly what I want. The RS700 looks even better but a big jump in price.

Other than that I bow to others who have actually sailed them ?
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