RS500??

Originally posted by mike ellis when it was blowing F6.

No it has too be windy than that for me to step into a feva  Plus the club fevas have no ratchets on the main

Edited by Smight at BBSC

mainsheet loads on a feva are nothing smight, even my sister could sheet in when it was blowing F6. (admittedly it took her about a minute ) although most the fleet do have a 2:1 on the mainsheet, i never saw the point.

MpHarris, the bigger main and the kite is marketted by LDC as the Feva XL but really tats the standard version. XL and muppet sails.

Edited by mike ellis

Cool, so just to sound even more clueless, whats the difference between the feva and feva XL? is this where i've got the racing with the smaller set from.  Could always be just me for sure but wanted to check.

You can bear further away and oversheet downwind to depower a
windsurfer, and its the same kitesurfing, or it was before the advent of
sheetable kites with bridled leading edges.

But I guess with an assymmetric dinghy with the kite up, luffing or sheeting
out like a windsurfer is not an option, so there is only one choice.

Well I'm not sure, I did wonder.

I dont even know how it came to pass that there were two sizes of sail.

I put it down to the fact the boat probably wasn't high enough
performance with the standard set, and/or it was aimed at the youth,
parent child market but when commercial reality struck they had to throw
the biggest rags they could on it to take on the likes of 29ers or whatever
else they percieved they were marketing against.

Either way it had nothing to do with my decision, I was just looking for a
modern board with one man sits the other wires and the centreboard
went up inside the hull like the 470 & 505 and it was the only choice.

I certainly didn't consider sailing a heavy washing up bowl around even
though it might on paper have seemed a better choice given the way our
beach trashes hulls.

I also knew, that most folk don't believe or even consider my views on
localised weather patterns, so I'd be able to do a bit of giant killing in it
eventually, once we'd worked out how to keep it from falling over..

Many a National Championship is lost by folk who think they dont
understand the weather