Class Redevelopment

I'm not the one saying I'm going to make a 4tonner as fast an Int.14 !!!

Old Codgers view here.  The 4000 is a pretty nice boat, not so much of a handfull that you can't go out in a blow and yet able to show an 800 around a course in the light stuff.

Boat design is all compromise, the hull is tough but heavy, take 30kilos off and it would be much faster but fragile or make it from carbon and expensive.  But a carbon rig would make the boat a lot nicer at not too big a price hike. 

I know another even cheaper mod - extend the racks, it wouldn't make it much faster but it'd certainly look the part and be more comfortable for heavyweights such as myself.  Certainly the corrector wieghts should be discarded (they make it hardwork for lightweights to pull the boat back to the dinghy park) - just give them more rack instead!

Like many SMODs the boat could do with more development.  Just a little lighter hull, carbon rig, bigger kite and it would retain its niche in the market but have a sub 900 PY.  But all the time it remains as popular as it is we'd better not tamper - but the class association needs to be ready to act when it goes into decline. 

It should never go twin trapeze that would put it into another niche which is already populated by some excellent boats.  At the moment it doesn't have a competitor the Vago and Buzz are too slow to "apparent wind" and I suspect the RS500 will also be in that bracket.  Other single trap boats are conventional hull and spinnaker.  Long live the 4000.

I agree with others here. You need to try a 14