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maxim 
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 Topic: boat for windsurferPosted: 17 May 05 at 9:23pm |
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No you're right, hardly any cats at all here at Farmoor.
We do have quite a reasonable size patch of water though, fine for most monohulls... Also, a lot of windsurfers about. |
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Scooby_simon
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Posted: 17 May 05 at 9:41pm |
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Maxin, You are alowed Cats on Farmoor now, good ho. Years ago I was prevented from sailing my Dart 18 there at a Schools Nationals - I was not a happy bunny and ended up in a Laser II (for the first and last time) |
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maxim
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Posted: 17 May 05 at 9:46pm |
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Which schools nationals was that?? I think the club
has a cat to lend out which I see saiing occasionally... so I guess they're allowed. If it was a Laser II lent by us you'll have probably sunk (we just brought them all back today to chuck them away!!) |
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hurricane
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Posted: 18 May 05 at 10:29am |
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regarding budgets hurricane 5.9's are bargains with the old ones retailing around £2000 these boats are just as competitive as the new ones so no real need to spend all the money unless you are thinking about looks of the boat!!!
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lifes to short to sail slow boats!
RIP Olympic Tornado 1976-2007 |
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Scooby_simon
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Posted: 18 May 05 at 11:19am |
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Cough, 1986 ish.... Cough |
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Scooby_simon
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Posted: 18 May 05 at 11:20am |
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Just make sure it has a 'bendy' mast, much faster when the time comes for racing. Edited by Scooby_simon |
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ChrisJ
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Posted: 18 May 05 at 12:51pm |
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Cat or mono hull? If you like wind surfing, I suspect that you will want to continue to do that in any wind of force 5 or more. Therefore, you want a boat to sail inland in lighter winds. This means a normal mono hull dinghy, rather than a cat.
Single handed with something extra to do? How about a Vareo? Has a good kite to help you down-wind. A Laser is always a good bet for the close racing you can have. Trying to find something for you single handed that you can take the wife in is tricky, but some of the smaller 2-man boats might be acceptable: Graduate, Heron, Pacer: but they could all be a bit boring. An RS200 would be lively enough for 2, with good close racing, but I haven't seen people sailing them single handed. Or an RS400 if between you you are 23 stone or more - but definately NOT single handable.
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alex d
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Posted: 19 May 05 at 10:09pm |
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What about a Blaze? There sems to be racing at farmour and burghfield with them. Both 30mins drive from my house. Is this jumping the gun a bit or will I tame it? Price seems right. Any comments. Cheers for all the help so far
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hurricane
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Posted: 19 May 05 at 10:18pm |
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the thing is as a windsurfer changing to sailing. speed is often a key factor am i right??
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lifes to short to sail slow boats!
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alex d
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Posted: 19 May 05 at 10:39pm |
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speed is a key factor but so is being able to take part in some racing. I do enjoy the blasting of windsurfing but not the broken ribs from catapulting on the mast at mac 10 in the solent.
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