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    Posted: 29 May 05 at 7:55pm

Originally posted by carshalton fc

yer plastic is good and cheap but it isnt fast!

But that's because it's early days building 'plastic' boats. Wait until there's more than a handful of racing classes on the water and do a comparison then, just don't blow them off straight away because in 10 years time we'll all think hand laying up fibreglass is really primitive!
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well it does have more sail area but i would chose the 2000 any day,  it is just more fun and easyer to sail!!    i still dont like the vision tho!!

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Originally posted by carshalton fc

but the vision has more sail area!!  if you wanted to
compare the vision with another boat you could compare it to a startos!!


So you agree the Vision is a faster boat?
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but the vision has more sail area!!  if you wanted to compare the vision with another boat you could compare it to a startos!!
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Originally posted by hairymonster

We tried both boats (and the Omega - urgh) at
our club/centre and theres just no contest. The Vision was so much faster
than the 2000 in all conditions we tried it. Also when we weighed the boats
the 2000 was much heavier than it said in the brochure.. only 5 kg less than
the bigger plastic Vision. RS say the handicap is 1078. I can believe this and
compare this to 1092 for the 2000.



Well, are these figures to be believed or not?

It's hard to tell after only a short sail in each boat, but the Vision seemed the
livier of the two.
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i dont think so!!
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But the Vision is faster than the 2000...
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yer plastic is definatly better for beginnes and people wanting a creap easy to sail boat!
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True. For a given strength, You must consider about 10% more wheigth. Glassfibre will probably still be used for performane boats the next few years, but for beginners/all round boats, polyethylene will probably take over.
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yer plastic is good and cheap but it isnt fast!
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