Hadron H2

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!

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 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

The Aero is a cracking boat, but also built by an industrial business so seem very consistent in build. Apart from a couple of very early boats, they have been remarkably trouble free. 

Edited by SimonW99 - 19 Feb 17 at 8:52pm

I don't know much about other sports TBH but I doubt you'd win Crufts on a 20 year old, £1500 nag   but such boats are capable of winning at the Nats with the right stick wiggler onboard.