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    Posted: 11 Mar 06 at 4:43pm
The different cut of sail on the Topper is just a small change...not a performance increase/decrease, just made of a different material so will last longer and it is easier in stronger winds.....when its really really blwing you can get stuck in irons becuase of the sail shape...having this newer, flatter sail means the rig is nicer in stronger stuff so you aren't likely to get stuck anbd start blwing back the way you have just come!
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So it is a performance increase then...
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I love the way cheaque book sailing doesnt exist in SMODs... how many boats in a championship topper fleet wont have a scratch free hull less than 5 years old without the 'worlds race kit' centre main and a new generation sail (probibly being used for its first reggata) thats faster in strong winds ...
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If I sail a SMOD I have the same chance of winning a race as anyone! not like in a Cherub where you actually need to sail faster than the fleet to win. 
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Originally posted by Isis

Originally posted by mike ellis

sorry but how do they fit a kite to that? that is the same hull as the one with kite and trapeze isnt it? it hardly looks big enough for one person.


Its about 12.6ft long... which makes it 0.6ft bigger than a certain twin wire assymetric beggining with C that we all know and love...

but the mast looks way too far forward. also it doesnt look that big in the pic.
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The mast for the Duo and Tres rigs sits on an aluminium bar a foot or so back from where the Uno mast sits. If you look closely, you can see the slots in the side decks. Sailing the Tres made the Firefly seem big, though...
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Its not a performance increase.....it doesn't make the boat go faster....just decreases the likelihood of being stuck in irons
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Originally posted by Wave Rider

Its not a performance increase.....it doesn't make the boat go faster....just decreases the likelihood of being stuck in irons


So in a race thats gonna make you faster round the course...
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Originally posted by Wave Rider

Its not a performance increase.....it doesn't make the boat go faster....just decreases the likelihood of being stuck in irons


so Bob using an old rig and getting stuck in irons twice in a race isnt going to be going slower than Garry with a new rig who doesnt get stuck in irons?
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lol well no becuase Bob using the old rig is well practiced and only had the getting stuck in irons problem when it really was blowing and in his first year of toppering. Garry has the new rig and wouldn't have been stuck in irons in the old rig becuase he had perfected his method....he is having more trouble with the new sail becuase of the different shape needing to be used slightly differently to be sailed at its optimum efficiency.
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