Where are all the RS300s?

Originally posted by JimC Trouble is if you do that everyone needs two rigs - a big one for the light and a small one for the breezy days. Its just that the cut off point will vary. Better to abandon the small rig I would have thought.

This is just a rules change being talked about at the moment, I believe that there would be a rule governing this as well to ensure the 'one design' principle remained.  Something in the way of whichever rig you had competed in for previous events you would be forced to continue using for the rest of the year (at events).  This would prevent chopping and changing.....

There are rules regarding how many times you can swap rigs- once in a season if I remember right, specifically to stop people having to buy two rigs. Abandoning the small rig would be a shame, as it really widens the range of weights that can sail the boat, and makes it much easier to sail, if you use the small rig. In the early days of the class, a few husband and wife teams bought one boat and two rigs!

Sorry about causing confusion, the A rig certainly is not getting scrapped; it is the weight limitations for the A & B rig that hopefully will disappear, leaving everyone free to choose either size of rig (but not swap about).

This has the bonus of allowing me to stop eating pies just to stay above the weight threshold for the B rig. As after a winter at uni I come above the weight range comfortably (beers, pies & team racing) but after a summer of sailing I generally am cutting it very fine.

As mentioned already the A rig is doing very well just now. Alistair Wood showed off the speed of the rig at the nationals this year, coming 4th in the first race; after sitting in 2nd round the windward mark (ahead of Cockerill et al).

Oh & Calum u have to get a 300, they're brilliant! And you're probably heavier & you're def taller than me, so you'll have no problem in the 300. I'm sure McG can be convinced too....

Yeah i a probably am john but ur a lot better than me!

NickA - if you get the details and can forward them to either myself or Jimbo_rs300 we'll get the details circulated and someone will buy the boat. They're like rockinghorse droppings at the moment!

 

Interestingly enough, today, I lent mine to one of the many people at my club chuntering about its handicap. He retired after forty minutes and nine downwind capsizes and conceded that the handicap was probably fair and it's a lot harder to sail quickly than he thought, before getting back in is ISO.