Singlehanded trap for lightweights

heh, my kestrel has one too...

The RS600, with its optional wide wings and reefable sail is one pretty good option.
Farr 3.7 looks interesting.
It depends what you want from trapezing, is it ultimate performance, or learning the skills?
A real athlete's machine or a capable fast boat that you don't have to sit out in F5?
Flat water or waves?
What sort of design windstrength? A contender is a pretty good trapeze boat for lightweights if they want to get out on the wire on nice sunny days, just the big boys will blast past when the breeze is up.
Lightweights include  a lot of younger people who find £10k for a new boat harder to find than us middle aged fatties. So maybe if the lightweights are not snapping up RS600's for a couple of grand, there isn't such a market? Or maybe the market is 'youth' (i.e. my generation buying for their kids!), in which case it needs to be pitched at 14 year-olds, in terms of weight and marketing.


Edited by RS400atC - 31 Oct 11 at 6:34pm

Originally posted by Jack Sparrow Originally posted by Wrighty "I think you have successfully debunked the hype that a Standard Musto can be sailed by lightweights with that comment"   No, The world champ is a lightweight at the moment, also the Main that Dan used was like a Radial to the standard laser rig, you need to go smaller like the 4.7 rig on the laser, all you can say is that a lightweight will have problems sailing the musto in a force 5 on the sea, put a very small sail on the Musto and you can get afloat in the windy stuff and have great fun in a force 2 to 3 in a normal rig.    For me the contruction of the hull is the main problem if you want to lend the musto to the young, you have to treat the Musto with respect, not drag it up the shoreline like a topper.   Any new boat will cost lots of money, best change a current boat like the 8.1 rig on the laser only £300 to change it. No money out there at the moment? So at 76kg and 5'8"? The WORLD CHAMP uses a small sail... enough said.

I would just like to clear up that I am 6 foot, 74kg and the worldchampion in the standard musto. I did some development with the small sail for the class association. I think the farr 3.7 looks like a good boat, but from the voting at the top it seems people want a skiff type boat with an assymetric. if thats what people want then i dont think that there is a boat currently on the market. However i dont think that there is a large enough target market?

Just one final point reflecting on this is if the mps guys don't think a cut down rig is worth doing it might be worth considering a cut down 700.... I have always much preferred the mps but the 700 is more stable and now with prices beig much lower the boat is open to a wider group now. A cut down rig also with the wide wings and granny bars could be an interesting proposition??? I wonder if RS have ever considered it? The 100, 300 and 600 all have smaller rig options so what about a scaled down 700 rig. Could breath new life into what seems like a very localized class on the south coast. I am only aware of 2 in Scotland.
Mmmmm.......

sorted!