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    Posted: 29 Sep 06 at 4:52pm

old spice!  the aftershave?



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Originally posted by foaminatthedeck

Some one where I worked put an extra trapez on the 800 and think that the mast was standard.

We wanted to but were not allowed

Instead we resurrected an old spice as a staff boat so we could at least twin wire something. The Spice was deemed by sunail as dangerous apparently and was pulled from all centres



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Some one where I worked put an extra trapez on the 800 and think that the mast was standard.
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Originally posted by CurlyBen

The sunsail 800s are a little different from a proper 800 - they are single trapeze version with an aluminium mast. Where I was working it was much, much less sketchy to have an inexperienced crew in the 800 than something like a 4000!

I ended up sailing the 29er after work since without the second wire and the scaffold pole of a mast made the strong gusty wind you get in Turkey horrible and very hard work to deal with.
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The sunsail 800s are a little different from a proper 800 - they are single trapeze version with an aluminium mast. Where I was working it was much, much less sketchy to have an inexperienced crew in the 800 than something like a 4000!
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Originally posted by foaminatthedeck

The 800 is used by Sunsail and god knows most of their clients know less about sailing than a small kitten, cant see a int14 ever being used by a sailing school. (please prove me wrong I'll work for them for free

Truth. I worked for sunsail and the big ego guests with no clue taking the 800 out were funny as hell to watch.

I cannot see a 14 ever being a sailing school boat either!
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The 800 is used by Sunsail and god knows most of their clients know less about sailing than a small kitten, cant see a int14 ever being used by a sailing school. (please prove me wrong I'll work for them for free )

Although have suggested that a friend of mine uses moths for stage 1, but only if i can watch with a beer and not be envolved. I mentioned this to a Coach and they didnt say it was a bad idea.

 
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even i can sail an 800, ive only sailed hiking boats before but i am comfortable crewing on an 800. i doubt id be able to jump into a 14 or one of these anywhere near as easily.
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Originally posted by JimC

Originally posted by skslr

I changed from an too short int14 to a comfortably long RS800 (16') and am asking myself why this boat is even shorter than an int14.


That's because not everyone agrees with you on that. An I14 is too big, long and heavy for some folk, who find for them short boats are more fun.


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Originally posted by skslr

The RS800 kite is definitely on the small end of things but otherwise I do not really see an advantage, especially as the RS800 goes really well with lightweight crews down to 110 kg.
 
While I love the 800 (will be crewing on soon) it is not in the same league as 14s, (new) cherubs and probably the new sk4 in terms of downwind performance and not as challenging to sail.
 
I wish my 14 was as easy to gybe as an 800...
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