Crazy Ideas!

what part of wales do u live because we have just had and old member from BASC move to wales somewere he sails a lazer vortex but did have a lightning aswell and i think is changin class to a singlhanded comet (sean carter)

sym not allowed assy but we do use bags so its only that fast on a hoist outa the leward bag or on a run when the crew doesnt need to throw it round the rig

i'm not to sure about that in the scorp with our one pump halyard we can have the kite full in about 3 seconds on a good hoist

i dont think they do

Don't Assymetric boats use windward leeward courses when class racing because it opens up a whole lot more tactical options on the high and fast/low and slow front? On a small lake when handicap racing, the ability of a conventional kite to run dead down wind puts it at a huge advantage over normally faster asymmetrics. Given a reaching course where the asymmetric can make the marks without gybing, they say goodbye to the conventional boats and disappear into the distance. Makes running handicap races very difficult, as the result is predictable from before the start between bowsprit and non bowsprit, and we don't have enough of the latter out regularly to have a separate start, which we tried for a couple of years.