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    Posted: 20 Jul 17 at 4:31pm
Spoons, how does the SuperSofa compare with Blaze?
I was trying to talk a club colleague into switching as he sometimes struggles getting the Blaze back up & going again in breeze.
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Nicely put Jeffers, I now have the Blaze down at the coast with the Spice and the Supernova up at the lake. However, I'm really finding it hard to make the 'nova go fast...... 10 mins behind the Lasers last week. TBF I have only raced it three times so I'll persevere at least until the Blaze comes home in November.
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Originally posted by Papa Smurf

Originally posted by piglet

I haven't travelled with mine so I don't know what 'proper' 300 sailors would say, but I do think you need to be nimble and light on your feet in the 300, getting your body weight into the right place quickly seems to matter.
Papa Smurf, you didn't mention the Blaze in your list of possibles. Not my cup of tea but some people like them, fast on a reach and a more stable platform for sure.

The only 300 helm I know is a bit quick. He's probably a lot quick but I tend to lose sight of him too early to tell. He doesn't jump about a lot or look rushed, but he does moves early and just enough to keep it balanced and looking smooth.

He got wet a couple of times this weekend..

I've read about the Blaze but don't know anyone who has one or who has seen one.

I had a Blaze on a small inland puddle. It was a nice boat but not really suited to the water unless it was blowing old boots.

As Sam has said you cannot roll tack it too hard or you dip a wing so keeping it fairly flat is the way forward. It paid to generally ignore a shift unless it was significant and bang the corners (which never works on a small pit). 

I enjoyed mine a lot but I am now sailing something far more suited to my sailing style and the lake I am sailing on.
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The Twiname book is required reading for any aspiring dinghy racer..... I have a Blaze and absolutely love it, it's fast, easy to sail and comfortable (for a certain definition of comfortable, it is a singlehanded dinghy....). It does require a certain level of agility and skill but not anything superhuman (I'm 64 and, while I returned to dinghies 9 years ago I've been out of competitive dinghy racing for a long time). I have only had my Blaze since November and have raced it at my inland club until a few weeks ago. Observations are :- 

1. The racks are unforgiving on a small lake, roll tacking like a L@ser is impossible and if you get caught out by a big gust you will dip one in the water and stop. 

2. It's a long way from side to side and that makes point one . The flat rocker and wide planing area don't help light wind performance. 

3. But the rig is sublime (even with the tin mast), very de-powerable and on the sea in a breeze the Blaze is just fantastic.


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Originally posted by JimC

Its really a question of technique. If you've got what Bethwaite calls fast handling technique...

A bit of light reading there for me I think. Should keep me going for a while.

Apart from the Eric Twiname book most of my references have been RYA texts or Laser specific.
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Originally posted by piglet

I haven't travelled with mine so I don't know what 'proper' 300 sailors would say, but I do think you need to be nimble and light on your feet in the 300, getting your body weight into the right place quickly seems to matter.
Papa Smurf, you didn't mention the Blaze in your list of possibles. Not my cup of tea but some people like them, fast on a reach and a more stable platform for sure.

The only 300 helm I know is a bit quick. He's probably a lot quick but I tend to lose sight of him too early to tell. He doesn't jump about a lot or look rushed, but he does moves early and just enough to keep it balanced and looking smooth.

He got wet a couple of times this weekend..

I've read about the Blaze but don't know anyone who has one or who has seen one.
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As it happens we have a couple of Phantom's, a 300, and someone with access to a Solution at the Club.

It looks like the beer is on me.
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Originally posted by piglet

Originally posted by Steve411

 
That's a fair point. I had to unlearn 20 years of downwind technique when I first got a 300. Had forgotten that.

Uh, that'll be why I'm struggling then.

It's mainly learning to bear away sharply when you get a windward roll on. You need to learn to do it instinctively - it isn't quick enough if you have to think before you do it.  LOL
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Originally posted by Steve411

 
That's a fair point. I had to unlearn 20 years of downwind technique when I first got a 300. Had forgotten that.

Uh, that'll be why I'm struggling then.
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Originally posted by piglet

I'm sure the 300 speaks highly of you.

Why is it Australian then?
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