Feva or Laser?

Originally posted by Dart_Fart  BURN THE FEVA!

Someone with sense!

the feva is a good boat for single handing and its much much much more comfy to hike from than a laser. also contary to what everyone says the feva has good racing too. and coincidently i am tryin to sell my Feva .

The boats really are aimed at a different market. New Lasers are for big fleet racing with no smiles, old Lasers are for trashing in waves at the beach. Fevas (there are no old ones) are for either junior/youth racing, or for adults to play in using 3 sails singlehanded. The crossover comes in club handicap racing, where the speed of the rest of the fleet, and what you enjoy more, will affect your decision. It is no fun being left behind, as a Feva might be, in a faster handicap fleet. On the other hand, if the fleet consists of Toppers or Mirrors and the like, a Laser will be too far infront to get a good race.

Sailed a Feva as a single hander on three occasions. To be honest it was barely any better than a Topaz race X, another similar plastic boat the experts love to hate. I tried the two back to back with a mate and it was barely any faster than the X and we swapped half way and agreed on that. The running and standing rigging felt a whole lot more fragile and wasn't quite as simple.  I deliberately did some capsizes and was disappointed that it inverted a little too easy.  If you must have a plastic boat as a returner to sailing the Topaz Race X is not much worse and can be more easily found at a reasonable price, is simpler, and to my eye looks more robust. If you sail a Feva as a double hander though it may well be quite good but I didn't try that so cannot comment.

Otherwise there are plenty of cheap good Lasers about as has been said.

Edited by Pesmo

i am also going to join the burn the feva campain!!  they are rubbish boats compared to a laser, the hulls dent so easyly and they arnt very nice boats to sail, go for a laser any day even if it is an old one it will be 10times better than a feva