Devotti Single Hander

Originally posted by Doug.H Rodney, I'd love to have a go even though I consider myself wildly underweight for the boat. Put me down for a demo.

Hi Doug, Consider it done.  When we publish the program just drop me a line.

Originally posted by G.R.F. Well when you do, let me know, I'm happy to have a go in that sort of venue, just because it doesn't suit me, my weight, my sailing venue doesn't mean lots of other folk won't like it. Then I'll shut up and stop annoying the Eyties.. I take it it does come with one forward and ten reverse gears.

Will post the dates and venues here as soon as finalised and look forward to seeing you at one of them!

The gears thing makes sense as a special for the Italian market so I will put your idea to Luca

See, in spite of comments to the contrary, we do listen to the input from this forum, especially the constructive ones 

Originally posted by Doug.H One question on the D- one. There is still a lot of boat behind the hiking beams. Surely there is going to be a time when you want to be that far back but cant?? Would it not be better for the beams to extend further back so you can hike right off the back of the boat?

There will be carbon fiber "extenders" attached to the wings that will allow to hike further toward the beam and shaped in way that you can't fell off from those. Off course this could be accomplished making the wings longer but in this case you would have difficulties in demounting the wings and putting them in the luggage van of a mid-sized car(the wings came with their own bags).


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Originally posted by G.R.F. 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..

Funny that you should mention that!  We were, in fact, working on the demo/test days diary for the D-One yesterday and Queen Mary and Datchet were on the list.  I was a member of Datchet until I moved further south so just for that reason I would prefer to go there; however, we have had a lot of interest from QM members in the D-One so that could be the final choice.

 

We will publish a list of dates and venues once all of the arrangements are finalised both on our website and also on this forum for those who are interested.

 

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Originally posted by G.R.F. 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. .

Erm... Did you not notice the F18 at the london boat show pursuit race???
That is one TINY peice that is tough for the tiniest of boats to sail on.
The F18 managed a far tougher feat on that day.