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    Posted: 12 Apr 05 at 3:35pm
when you think about it the more sail you put on a boat the more twichea but this is all relativ of cours

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From what I've heard, the 18 and 49er are equally difficult to sail, some even say the 18 is easier to sail because theres three of you and the extra size of the boat makes it a lot less eratic and twitchy than the 49er. When direct comparisions have been made in the past, it's been mentioned that the 18 is like driving a bus compared to the handling of the 49er, not in the speed sence obviously. Maybe the same sort of experience kicks in when you go from sailing a Cherub to moving into the 49er, the bigger the boat is the better behaved it seems to get with the increased water-line length. Still wouldn't swap my 49er for anything else, so in my opinion, the 49er is the best, but at the end of the day, aren't all well established skiff classes brilliant anyway and it's just down to your own preferance which boat you sail.
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yer but  if you think all they are is a step up from the 49er

or may by more of a leap

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yer the people who sail the 18 footer are like super humans!!
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here here.

Both upwind and downwind!

 
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the 18 footer should be named best skiff just for the mad speeds they can do!!!!
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Anyone that has sailed an 18 foot skiff would surely say the 18footer is the best.

Yeh I hear all the crew problems and stuff but for outright awesome sailing the 18foot Skiff has to be the one.

And that coming from a moth sailor!
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yer i like the mps to dose any one have some good pikes
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I like the concept of the Musto Skiff, just think it needs three guys to make an 18 or 16 go two for a 9er or 14  but just the one for the Musto. All it needs now are some foils and the sky is the limit.
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can people start puting arsam skiff pikes on hear pleas

 

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