Devotti Single Hander

The key to pimping on forums boys, is to serve your time first, become
part of the regular community, show your one of them(us) all you're doing
is further alienating yourselves and your product from what could contain
certain elements that would benefit from such a craft.

I'm sure there's a place for it on Big London reservoirs and none coastal
venues.

Right now your talking yourselves into Mission Impossible.

Your task , should you choose to accept it, is to organise a London Demo
Event on say Datchet or Q.M.

Get some objective assessments..

And also understand the Brit humour better.

, sailed again today , you need traveller because to have good trim you have in mainsheet about  30 kg time 4 so 120 kg in middle of boom....probably 360 kg where vang is, no chance with agricultural gnav, need rudderstock like d  one because need rudder is really fixed when you go 16 knots plus,with gennaker, need retractable pole, need high wings or they hit water and a lot of drag, try sailing d one , cheap ryan flight to bergamo , cheap pick up cab to torbole and magical sailing, and than you will understand me ciao aldo info@hotelsantoni.com can get you cheap rooms

Just paying from now until 2014... 

Originally posted by turnturtle ...astounded that the competitive weight claim from 70kgs would stack up on this... again not relevant to me in the slightest, but interested nevertheless.

I've done some sums that suggest that at 70kg, the "design wind" is 8kts for the D1. For the big rig RS100 with a 90kg helm, it is about 10kts.  If the big rig was sailed by a 70kg sailor, it would be 8kts, like the D1, but RS presumably consider this too low or they wouldn't be offering a small rig as well.   For boats like the RS200 and Tasar, it is about 11kts. 

Can please someone explain to me why a traveller is more effective to DEPOWER a main than a well engineered vang/gnav (vang seems to work perfectly at least for our mainsail which is similar size) and why a Musto needs a trapeze if you can hold down a similar sized main on a similar wide boat without trapeze @70 kgs?