Who's going and when?

Originally posted by tink I hope the Streaker doesn’t have a Carbon rig. The PY bandit moaners will have a field day with that. I remember one issue the bandit  moaners have is that the old wooden ones artificial push up the PY making the plastic boats bandits. Adding a carbon rig will only worsen this separation. The appeal of the streaker is that it hasn’t gone down the carbon route.

I've seen the carbon boom..

Originally posted by iGRF Originally posted by tink I hope the Streaker doesn’t have a Carbon rig. The PY bandit moaners will have a field day with that. I remember one issue the bandit  moaners have is that the old wooden ones artificial push up the PY making the plastic boats bandits. Adding a carbon rig will only worsen this separation. The appeal of the streaker is that it hasn’t gone down the carbon route.  I've seen the carbon boom..

The forecast says not going 

Main issue for me (although I no-longer have any stake in it) would be the maintenance aspect of carbon spars on a streaker.  An FRP streaker is a fantastic package for very low-maintenance sailing (also lovely boats to sail).  Introducing carbon spars just for the sake of it would ruin this, and introducing them to actively look for performance gains opens another can of worms.

I'm not a Streaker owner but having gone from ally to carbon on a Contender I really wish carbon booms were allowed on my two person boat. Simply nicer to use in all ways, some carbon masts have insane price tags and yes UV protection requirements but a boom is under the cover and need not be anything like to tech hungry as a mast.