Feva or Laser?

Originally posted by BBSCFaithfull Originally posted by Dart_Fart  The great crusade against the Feva has begun !!!  They are actually quite shockingly rigged. RS cut so many corners when building it!

The multi award winning RS design team would be delighted to hear your detailed report of areas that you feel could be improved. Please PM or email me a list and we can dicuss them off forum and then report back to everyone on the progress we've made. As you were 'shocked' by the rigging experience I've no doubt there'll be plenty for us to get our teeth into. Perhaps I could send you a ticket to the boat show and we could talk over the Feva on the stand.

In the meantime, best of luck with your driving test, I read elsewhere that this is imminent?

Originally posted by Dart_Fart Ricky I think, sent me an e-mail having a go at me for complaining.

Is it possible you deserved it? In any customer service organisation its essential for staff morale to let staff occasionally have a go at customers that really deserve it... There are cases where there's no worries about them telling the friends they haven't got.

Originally posted by Dart_Fart  The great crusade against the Feva has begun !!! I actualy complained about the Feva once and RS's sales manager, Ricky I think, sent me an e-mail having a go at me for complaining. Now there is customer service for you lol!

They are actually quite shockingly rigged. RS cut so many corners when building it!

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

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.

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