Hadron H2

Originally posted by turnturtle At twice the price for significantly less than half the amount of class racing on offer, the Hadron almost certainly has its own value proposition in other directions to the Aero...

Where did you get the idea that the H2 is twice the price of an Aero?
Price of RS Aero 9 (RS website, today): £6670. Hadron H2: £9465.

Edited by Keith_Callaghan - 19 Feb 17 at 4:40pm

It'll be interesting to see, in a couple of years, how a well used Aero has stood up to a few seasons use and abuse. Having sailed Raceboards (and Div 1 before that) for a lot of years I'm well aware that super light kit usually sacrifices durability (the one exception was Mistral's venerable Equipe 2 which seemed to take anything I could throw at it). I reckon a 5 year old H2 will be a rather better proposition than a similar age Aero.

Originally posted by Keith_Callaghan Originally posted by Sam.Spoons A new Aero is the thick end of £3k cheaper than the others you mention and a Laser fully £4k less (ok no real comparison there TBF). New boats are indeed getting very expensive. If I was in the market for a new singlehander the Aero would be very hard to ignore......... 20% of our H2 owners previously owned an Aero.

Showing that statistics on small numbers might not be entirely reliable!

Originally posted by NickA The Aero is gaining traction as a fun boat and we have three or four on the back of the demo events ... but I've yet to see one race.

Well all boats look expensive now. The Hadron for what it is isn't expensive. Compare a new Hadron, New Blaze, New Aero, New Phantom with the required bits and you might be shocked. They have all gone up considerably. Choose the best for you.