The Tasar v the Icon

Originally posted by blaze720 Greame ... try that Tasar if you get a chance !.Mike L.

Hmm a bit clunky for my liking all that 'spannering' would wind me up, I very nearly took it out for a play on wednesday, but anything that's slower than me sailing an EPS with it's old sail isn't going to appeal, but it is light. We're veering towards a V3000, we had a blinding battle with one last night managed to hold it off until the penultimate run when a gust caught us being a bit lazy about a down wind soaky wing wanged gybe and we went over. Until then the wing wang had held them off, they were chasing high angles looking for wind we were soaking deep fully 'wanged' unable to hold it if we went high, what's needed in the market is a super light wash through trap boat with wing wang kite capability, and retracting centreboard that's what we want.
The Alto is a write off if you capsize, the V3000 is a write off if the wind drops, the Icon has been neutered by it's handicap, the RS500 is just too plain unmanageable and also suffers no wing wang.

There are no perfect boats.

Edited by iGRF - 18 Jul 14 at 2:08pm

Unfortunately the 're-arranged' dates have meant that the Icon 'CA' are on holiday at Aberwhatsit and Cirrus are supporting a Blaze event and running boat demonstrations in Lymington...  All pre-arranged and non-changeable 

Have a great event though and anyone interested in Icon could get in direct contact after the weekend.... Cirrus and the CA will have several boats avialable at 'Sailfest' next month but still have one boat left for potential loan in the meantime plus we/they can run ad hoc tasters on demand.... just keep asking.

Greame ... try that Tasar if you get a chance !.

Mike L.


Edited by blaze720 - 18 Jul 14 at 1:39pm

Originally posted by iGRF That I guess would be if the spanner thing was et up properly which I doubt she did

The Tasar came with a very comprehensive operation and maintenance manual.   It was about 50 pages of A4 and was also a sailing/racing manual.    Nothing glossy or frothy but just accurate technical stuff.   Unbelievable really.  

It's a real shame the Tasar didn't take of in the UK.  I guess we were stuck on racing Enterprises, Graduates and Nat 12s  etc.

Jib pole is old style; not like a dangler or anything.

That mast does appear to give a very nice entry to the sail, but I didn't think the sail itself is very nice and she wasn't pointing anywhere near me and missed a few lifts. It's a bit old and shagged but then so is mine, I finally am convinced full batten rigs are not for dinghy sailing in confined water, the damn flow takes ages to become re attached after transitions.

Also, that pointy entry? We found with kites that too narrow and acute a leading edge attack angle don't give you much option, so stalling occurs more frequently and I imagine that Tasar sail will luff more than most in shifty weather, that sort of thing is fine in steady ocean breezes, but buggering about on shifty lakes? Then of course she kept getting the 'spanner' in the works

And did i detect a jib pole thing? She must have had something like that to reverse the jib the way she did?

Edited by iGRF - 18 Jul 14 at 11:48am