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    Posted: 21 Jan 06 at 5:58pm
By yellow, I presume you mean the dayglo greeny yellow colour used for hi-vis jackets etc.... It doesn't look too pretty, but it is one of the better cloth colours for not stretching as it gets older. (Black is really bad for stretching, and looks incredibly nasty as well, so I can't see why anyone would want that!)

Proper yellow spinnakers (school custard colour) look very good on boats, particularly if you have a smoke laminate mainsail - seems to attract more photos as well
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Remarkable Turnturtle, remarkable .....  and I thought I'd got a yellow spinny because they have the best resistance to UV degradation ..... 
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Originally posted by turnturtle

Ahh but that's consumer choice Pierre; if someone was 'marketing' an Osprey, what kite colour would they choose to attract it's target market?

Grey? Or possibly blue (rinse)...

At this point I would like to point out that what hair I have left is the above colour, Grey, rather than blue) and were I larger, I'd test sail the new Osprey...
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Originally posted by turnturtle

Ahh but that's consumer choice Pierre; if someone was 'marketing' an Osprey, what kite colour would they choose to attract it's target market?


Good question.  My personal view is that most Osprey sailors are colour blind going by some of the colour schemes, so a straight "beer" coloured one would probably hit the mark. Actually let me just check my photo's .....  Yup, as I thought, the kevlar sails are a light beer colour, so the spinny in beer would be fine, or white, for any number of reasons which I am sure will be commented on .
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Originally posted by turnturtle

Rupert, perhaps if you're not heavy enough for an osprey you would qualify as an 'adult of moderate size' and the RS500 is right up your street- [tongue stuck in cheek]

I'm certainly planning on a sail in one when I get the chance, but I have to confess I'm not really in the market for any boats you can't buy for less than a pint of beer...pity about the cost of doing them up, really!
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Apologies for the off-topic post, but Dambusters, eh?   
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Back to the 500 topic.. does anyone else think that the 500 looks like a large feva thats been pushed into a skiff shape and sold with bigger sails? i dont mean this offensively or anthing
Sailors don't get old!!! They get a little dinghy (or skiff, or yacht...)
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Originally posted by Pondling

Back to the 500 topic.. does anyone
else think that the 500 looks like a large feva thats
been pushed into a skiff shape and sold with bigger
sails? i dont mean this offensively or anthing




I thought it looked a bit like a cross between a feva
and a laser 3000, with some bigger sails.
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Originally posted by phantom_iv

Originally posted by Pondling

Back to the 500 topic.. does anyone
else think that the 500 looks like a large feva thats
been pushed into a skiff shape



I thought it looked a bit like a cross between a feva
and a laser 3000, with some bigger sails.


Well there are only so many shapes you can make a boat guys...
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