The RS100 Owners Thread

Originally posted by Contender443 Well my experience is that at 92kg (ish) I found the 10.2 a handful and had to depower very early. I also found it a pig to gybe without the kite especially from reach to reach. Now I generally sail club courses which are either triangle sausage or trapezoids. Why is it at our club we always have a long beat into the tide and a very short blast downwind with the kite? I find when doing triangles on the reaches the majority of the time I cannot fly the kite as I am generally overpowered. Then I get stuffed by Laser2s and RS500s who with their trap can carry their kite quite high. Maybe I should just pop the kite up and carry it for as long as I can but then I need to bear away to drop. [I agree it can be a big on a traditional triangle. I tend to head high, then hoist, but calling the point is interesting. I also suspect what the rest of us call triangles, pondmonkey calls RTC. RTC to me means what we do, 8 marks and a cats cradle course of alls sorts of angles] In the meantime the Lasers are catching me up because they are not gaffing with a kite on the reaches and sail by the lee on the run. So I donot find the 8.4 a good handicap boat on our courses and am probably sailing closer to 1035. This year one of our good Laser sailors has bought an 8.4 and he is finding the same thing.  Would I change class? No not at the moment because when I get the right course or just don't care then it is great fun. Will I do open meetings and the nationals? Probably not because there is not enough choice in the RS100 UK calendar. [we actually discussed event regularity at the AGM, reaching a consensus that one a month was about right - with the knowledge that there are likely to be good turnouts at Chi Fed Week and at Poole thanks to their strong fleets] There are too many European events in the calendar and you get the feeling this is a manufacturers marketing ploy. One final point which rig is the one for the international class? I am surprised ISAF have let such a wooly description go with the 2 rigs allowed in the first place. I would have thought like the Laser each rig should be an international class in its own right. [It is an interesting observation that the Laser was well established before the alternate rigs came along and I am not sure how RS got away with it either. And this is the same ISAF taking Laser performance's side against Bruce Kirby - oops, wrong thread]

Hi Clive, Keith - I am also a 100 owner, Dave:-)

Originally posted by fab100   This is an RS100 Owners Thread so it's interesting that the nonsense comes from non-100 owners.

you're certainly tenacious - I'll give you that James!  But you been banging on about this now for ~3 years and you don't even sail a 100 anymore!  The proposal is just that - subject to discussion and change - and anyway it ought to be up to the 100 sailors how they organise their own events and prizes. Not sure you've been very fair to Keith in these recent discussions - if anything it was that you backed one horse and didn't like it when it didn't win.  'Splits'  'donkeys' - not stirring? - come on!

Well my experience is that at 92kg (ish) I found the 10.2 a handful and had to depower very early. I also found it a pig to gybe without the kite especially from reach to reach. Now I generally sail club courses which are either triangle sausage or trapezoids.