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    Posted: 20 May 05 at 10:48pm

We've been through this with 5420 - have a look at the discussion below.

http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6 42&KW=5420&TPN=1

My advice remains - Make a shortlist, have a trial sail in each.

For reference, a Musto Skiff would give you the thrills but could be outside your budget,  Contender has top competition nationally and internationally and a good secondhand choice, the Vortex Champion is an ex windsurfer Div 1 world Champion, and several other ex Windsurf racers sail them, Blaze with new rig are excellent - especially if that will get you class racing. In the end you'll never get the same speed thrill as in a windsurfer but the racing is stacks better. So go to Farmoor on  a busy day and see whats popular. In most clubs that will be Laser, Solo, Phantom or similar. Either sail that for the fleet racing or go for one of the faster more exciting but usually less well supported classes. Don't they sail Int Canoes at Farmoor?

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the wife has decided that I should buy a boat that I will be happy with as she doesn't think she'll have the time to sail for a while.  So now it's just a boat for me!!  She may end up doing a course but only wants to ponder around the water in light winds as opposed to myself who wants to blast around and race.  This definately puts a different angle on the "which boat should I buy"
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Don't quite see how an RS300 fits in with taking your wife sailing.
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yes, the rs 300 is singlehanding...
Not sure how many cherubs there are at farmoor - I'll
have a look - never seen any though (but I don't do
the club racing...)
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is the rs300 single handed sailing?  Where are the cherubs in my area?  Obviously if I could find someone in my area to show me them it would be so much easier picking a boat after having a go.
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Cherub seems the best bet because for thrill factors they will have you jumping for joy. Plus there seems to be a few in your area, why not arrange to sail with someone for a season then get a boat once you've got that season's experience under your belt.
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Why not try an RS300?

More simple rig than a blaze but faster and better overall contruction.

Carve gybing is also a really useful technique in the 300!!!

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Originally posted by alex d

What about a Blaze?  There sems to be racing at farmour
and burghfield with them.  Both 30mins drive from my house.  Is this
jumping the gun a bit or will I tame it?  Price seems right.  Any
comments.  Cheers for all the help so far


With the new rig they are better but difficult to find second hand.
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Yeah windsurfing can really hurt.  Learning to jump is easy going up but the landing is difficult. I never managed to complete a full forward loop.  Trust me NOTHING hurts as much as half a loop.
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Ouch. I damaged my shoulder from catapulting onto the mast windsurfing on a short chop off Hayling and a physio reckons that shoulder problem I have 20 years later are due to that incident.
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