RS aero

The orange five certainly does have its fanboys Graeme, also plenty of haters on STW.  However post anything on bike radar asking for comments and you get a tirade of abuse about the brand, the value for money, the fact they are out dated tech. Blah, blah, blah!  It's certainly not an equal split, like is almost is here.  The sailing anarchy split is weighted co pletely to the aero, mainly due to clean being in the pocket.  

Originally posted by SimonW99 You simply cannot remotely say there is an aero bias on the forum. The key difference is that those people with neither boat are fed up with constant niggling by yourself and others who have dzero's at the aero and RS.  Those of us have decided that the aero happens to be the boat we will be sailing next year have simply been standing up to the extreme bias an non stop negativity that comes this way from a limited group of people attacking the boat, having never sailed one.  However, on the contrary, everyone else  including those with aeros has been mature enough not to start laying in to the Dzero in some for t*t for tat bitch fest.

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I beleive the thread was removed Rupert, it was more around how far forward the mast was, how awful the wings were, how expensive it was the bathroom colours, for deck shape.  Etc. etc.  those that will remember I was also pretty tough on the boat.  Mainly because the Italians and Luca came here and posted a load of nonsense.  Same as happend with the aero.  So at least I am consistent.  I even had a PM from Rodney at about 3pm in the midst of a breakdown over the whole trashing of the d1.  I won't name names, but people close to this thread even booked d1 demos only to conveniently meet up with an rs director on the water in his 100.  It was worse than all this, which has after all been t*t for tat around marketing and picking up on people comments about the boat.  What's come back from several people my way and James' has been a fair bit of personal attacking and cheapening.  We are both as you know pretty thick skinned, it's just a shame some people can't go down the debate route rather than getting personal!

Now I know that I haven't sailed an aero, but I was wondering about a couple of things if that's allowed.

When I viewed it at the show I was concerned about the cleats on the side deck. The appear to be the cheap horrible type that you get on a laser boom. Those are awful for adjusting once the pressure is on the rope cos it gets pulled ever tighter into the cleat. Is this a problem on the aero?

Also it appears that the rope after the cleat is taken away through the deck very quickly, leaving a very short length of rope too grab to perform the adjustment with. Again is this a problem?

Originally posted by winging it I am ashamed to admit back then I said the D one was ugly and would never catch on.  Oops.