Frankenboat - what's yours?

Originally posted by Steve411 Originally posted by H2 I do agree with you Graeme that there are some great Una rig boats that are now available but until the H2 came along there was not a modern design / material boat for the sailor that weighed more than a racing snake. If you were taller or heavier than 85kg then you were limited to a Phantom, Blaze (sea boat) or Finn, perhaps an OK or Solution at a push but an Aero and D0 were still tilted toward the skinner sailer. The boat shown by Cirrus looked to me like it might carry a bigger person and be a slippery design - hence able to be of interest to me as a H2 sailor who at the moment has few choices. And an RS300. And a 95kg sailor won the D-Zero Nationals last year.

The D0 got screwed by the same mafia that took out the Icon and keeps the Blaze and Laser in bandit world, The RS300 should carry a health warning alongside the 200, 600 & 700. The D1 nice boat that it is, is a FatFinnBoys Barge, very powerful, The RS100 been there done that eventually managed to get back into it with the aid of a rescue boat the inshore and half the RNLI..it's another big boys barge. The Vario now do we really want to talk about the Vario going upwind, what else have we got to do with the rest of our lives?

While i've been doing this I've found what's required. We need a super light foil shaped cassette up the forestay that will act not unlike a small jib, within it we need a furled gennika made of cuben fibre, it's 50 gms per sq mtr so not as light as spinnaker cloth but lighter than normal jib cloth and it'll take a lot to rip or put holes in it. Should be capable of fitting to any boat you wish that carries a forestay.

Originally posted by iGRF The D0 got screwed by the same mafia that took out the Icon and keeps the Blaze and Laser in bandit world, The RS300 should carry a health warning alongside the 200, 600 & 700. The D1 nice boat that it is, is a FatFinnBoys Barge, very powerful, The RS100 been there done that eventually managed to get back into it with the aid of a rescue boat the inshore and half the RNLI..it's another big boys barge. The Vario now do we really want to talk about the Vario going upwind, what else have we got to do with the rest of our lives? While i've been doing this I've found what's required. We need a super light foil shaped cassette up the forestay that will act not unlike a small jib, within it we need a furled gennika made of cuben fibre, it's 50 gms per sq mtr so not as light as spinnaker cloth but lighter than normal jib cloth and it'll take a lot to rip or put holes in it. Should be capable of fitting to any boat you wish that carries a forestay.

Originally posted by Jack Sparrow that's far too complicated... you just need one of these... ;-)

You're just worried I'm about to b**tardise your baby, which I most definitelly am after last nights DFL (DFL means two things down here, Down from Lunnon and Dead F***ing Last and I'm not down from Lunnon)

Originally posted by H2 Yeah speed is fun - but then it you just want some speed in your life why not get a foiling moth (Edit: or a race car...which is what I did)

I wouldn't mind a go in a foiling Moth, but what I've seen of them, they don't go out in really light air. So they don't seem that great as an all-round option.Plus any pretence of a meaningful race against any other class is just nonsense, so all you get is speed unless you have other Moths to race.
And they are a lot of cash, OK if you are serious about it, but above what many are likely to want to spend.