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jeffers ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 29 Mar 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 3048 |
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Well put....then again 90kgs on the back of most things would have them 'going down'.... Dare you to post the second part on SA though Simon
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kneewrecker ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 09 Apr 14 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1586 |
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Those videos are a response to the blog post which went viral (and other similar feedback from other users). They are edits from existing footage previously not released - and looking at the last one, I fully appreciate why.
Spinning it as customer service or some kind of user manual - 'fraid not, I have more respect as a straight up response to a criticism than playing it out as a training video... It was a rush job, hence why it has a write up to accompany it rather than a voiceover which would have ensured that the context doesn't get lost and we're not sitting watching it wondering what the hell would happen to that kid if it were a) windier and b) he were sailing without rescue cover. |
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If you put 90 kgs on the back of a boat this light - it is ;-) The boat is open transom in hull design terms. The flaps have 3 benefits. They let water out. They keep the mainsheet in the boat. Apparently they keep the USA market happy as generically they don't buy boats with open sterns. - ( Apparently its some sort of witchcraft that keeps the boats from filling with water and sinking
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Medway Maniac ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 13 May 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2788 |
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Take your point, Jim. But the vast majority of our club's L2k's use masthead floats, and boats blowing away downwind are the least of their capsize problems. Designers: please spend a few quid more on build and take out the side tank volume. Thankyou. |
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jeffers ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 29 Mar 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 3048 |
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Sorry I do not classify this as an open transom: ![]() The same with the RS100 transom, they are both low but not open (unlike the RS300, Vareo, Blaze, D-1). The D-Zero transom in not really properly open either IMO (for getting back in post capsize) because there is the traveller in the way.
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This is a nonsense. Its a lighter boat that may be different to get into than older heavier much slower comparable boats i.
Heavy blokes will almost always go in over the stern of open transom boats given half a chance as its a lot easier - Rs100, rs300, supernova, d-one - all dead easy over the stern. If you want to compare to a laser over the side, then for a 90kg plus bloke it is more tricky with an aero, but then of course over the stern in a Laser is very difficult! In comparison, for a heavy bloke, over the stern in an aero is much easier than over the side in a laser!! The point being its not a problem if you do it right and I have sailed boats that are a lot harder to get back into after a solo capsize. I love all this from people who for the most part haven't sailed it. So whats next, colour of the logo's perhaps....... No boat is perfect, but the aero is a step change in performance and feel from a laser within the same dimensions. And as for marketing bullsh*t, if someone posts examples of both good and bad capsize recovery technique on their association website I would call that useful tips and customer service, but hey maybe I am just old-fashioned.
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jeffers ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 29 Mar 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 3048 |
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I don't think it is surprise as such more that the RS marketing machine has listed it as a boat with no vices where clearly bigger, heavier sailors will either have problems or have to change technique to get back in. The issue seems to be more hull form stability related than the weight when trying to climb in. If/when I ever get in one I will chuck it in and give my thoughts. I am a similar height and build to the writer of the blog.
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Rupert ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 11 Aug 04 Location: Whitefriars sc Online Status: Offline Posts: 8956 |
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I'm with Jim on this. For Junior training on our lake, masthead flots are a must. Mosts don't get stuck in the mud, kids can right the boats and get on with the training, safety cover isn't tied up with one turtled boat. Out at sea with no or stretched safety cover? Having the boat blow away could be fatal.
Weighing less than half a Laser, the Aero was always going to float high, wasn't it? And was always going to be tricky for a heavy person to climb into. So why the "surprise" people are showing now? And have I missed something with mythological nobility coming into the conversation? |
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JimC ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 17 May 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 6662 |
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My dislike of masthead floats dates back to floating in the solent watching a boat hurtle away downwind, even flipping itself upright to disappear even faster. I remain very grateful to the good folk of GAFIRS (http://GAFIRS.org.UK).
They have their place of course. When doing initial capsize recovery training I use one, and if sailing on a lake shallow enough to stand up in I'd also use one. If sailing with close safety cover eg training situations they also make sense, because the consequences of being separated from the boat are small, and those from entrapment great. In open water sailing and with less comprehensive rescue cover however being separated from the boat seems to me much more likely and higher risk than entrapment. Compare likely survival times of sailor sitting on upturned boat and sailor in water. I've sailed any number of boats that drift downwind faster than I can swim when on their sides, and none that have done so when inverted. |
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