Who was out this weekend?.....

From what I've seen of the antics at my club with a 29'er, you'd have about the same learning curve as the 600. Weir Wood windshifts make for an exciting balancing act. Does look to be a hoot though.... if you are young thin and nimble.

i tried out a 29er and an rs 500 on wednesdsay. the 500 is so much slower than the 29er, it was also alot less fun. we spent so much time trying to get the 9er to stay upright after we capsized it was so funny. as soon as i can get rid of the feva im getting one .

Originally posted by Wave Rider Right Graemef, I apologise. Just had a look at my post and realised quite how thick it made me seem. I wasn't trying to insult your boat or your sailing and I realise it sounded like that so sorry! I was being a twat and thinking of apparent wind as the wind which the exceptionally quick skiffs use. I realise everything sails on a small amount of apparent wind. I have sailed a laser 3k many times and agree they are great fun and quick in a blow ... My rubbishly phrased post was meant to mean 'crap, maybe i sailed the 3000 really wrongas we wern't really treating in like an 'apparent wind boat'. So have fun and enjoy it, they're good boats.

Thank you WR, apology accepted, but unnecessary, I hadn't taken offence,
the "whining children" quip came as a result of an earlier retaliatory strike
at surly youths, that again had given me no offence, but I did take offence
at the time when your "presumably youthful" moderator had weighed in
with PM's telling me to "watch it", because of all the complaints he'd had,
presumably from the said youfs.
Whatever its over I'll stick to banter and stories until my writing style,
which isn't intended to give offence, by being so obviously OTT is more
accepted.

The reason I'm here is simply because I'm a novice at boat handling, its
tricky because I'm not a novice, more an expert, at competitive sailing,
just my past life was as a stand up competitor.

I can see how that might give the appearance of my being a "ringer" or a
wind up, but it simply aint so. I genuinely did take my first steps sitting
down on an MPS and in difficult circumstances. This Lsr3000 is a joy
compared to that skiff, but, a lot of the stuff I learned transfers across,
the MPS has to be sailed downwind with an assymettric spinnaker, so I
had to get that bit dialed, the only thing I ever did in it was race, and I
could never keep up with the good guys as well as I can in this 3000.

However, having said that, last night I spent staring up the transom of
Nemo, a bloody mirror dinghy, as i totally screwed the start, and a
downwind in next to no wind and an adverse tide.

I tried everything, sitting right up front, various downwind angles, it just
sucks to the water in drifty conditions. I finished last.

It would have been really depressing, were it not after one long an
aggravating drift parallel to a mark, making about the same speed
against the tide as the mark. (I knew once I got round, the lee bow of the
tide would produce enough wind to propel me back along the last reach
and then up wind to finish).
I eventually rounded, and almost simultaneously, the sun, previously
hidden all day behind depressing grey skirts, peeked out between the
skirt and the horizon, casting a brilliant orange glow across the bay, and
that last reach the spinnaker filled with a slightly fresher breeze, helped
by the adverse tide, and my little purple friend jollied forward and none of
it mattered.
There is no place I'd rather have been, alone at sea with that light in the
closing moments of what had been a pretty knaff day.

Its what sailings all about, doesn't matter what you sail, a board, a boat or
a kite even, times like that...

You can't buy them.

Edited by Graemef

Nice one Francis

I always feel insignificant and never post in this thread, because I don't have success stories or aquabatics to share. However, I will try, since I am the least-competent sailor on this forum (it might encourage others to post...)

On Sunday, F5 when i got to the club, good F6 gusts in a very shifty winds and nice long waves. Contender443 had volunteered to look after the children mostly because he was a little wary and didn't want his nice, new shiny bottom scratched (the RS200...).
I was in the Topper. All participants got to the water, waited for the start...

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the postponment flag was on...

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meanwhile, we were all having loads of fun in the wind, very fast reaches surfing the waves, drenched in spray, the fine droplets shimmering in the sun and drying in a rock-solid film of salt on my glasses, rocky runs when you're crouching in the bottom of the boat and steering with your bodyweight, blasting beats when the toestraps dig in your feet and you know your thighs will be singing on Monday...... You can picture the scene. Great! Looking forward to the race!  

After 45 minutes' delay, the fast fleet got their start, then the Lasers, then the Toppers... I had an eye on the watch, was on the line, got to 15 seconds before the start, put in quick gybe to get through the line on the gun... and the traveller snapped.

End of race

End of report

The afternoon race was cancelled, since the wind was getting quite fierce.

Everyone packed up...

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and the wind died

F2 all afternoon. Could have taken the Contender out...

 

 

I promise I won't post in this thread again, yes I do! Please don't hit me...

Edited by Black no sugar

Think I'd agree, even if its in the same way a new crisp boat will outperform
an old one of any design.

But it's only likely to be in the mid range, very light and very windy I doubt if
there will be much difference.

We have a good battle with a Laser 2, they are competant sailors, but not
tactically aware, we're useless boathandlers but out manouvre them shift
wise. Boat speed difference, the fact their back door is shut helps them when
its light, we're generally awash, even when we remember to put the bung in.