RS Neo

Club Lasers are dying now and need replacement for next year, so RS has lent us their Neo Demo boat for three weeks.

I've just put it all together and seems ok.

Anyone have any experience of them they'd share. If they are liked by club members we'd be buying three.

We probably need to know what these club boats are going to be used for before we can give advice . Are they going to be used mostly for training or are they going to be used for your members to hire and race ? 

The RS Neo rig is near identical to the the RS Aero 6 so with a modern performance rig the RS Neo benefits in being a good progressive trainer.
That rig paired with the roto-moulded RS Neo hull makes the RS Neo a robust and relatively stable option for beginners.

These carbon spars are very robust, just like the RS Aero's are. I suggest more robust than metal overall and much more user friendly. The feather-weight carbon mast is a joy when lifting into the hull to rig or when righting after a capsize.

Edited by Peter Barton - 12 Oct 22 at 11:42am

One good thing about the Aero mast (on the Aero anyway) is that the sealed topmost and external halyard means it is reluctant to turn turtle when capsized. Assuming that the Neo is the same, that would be very useful at a relatively shallow venue. At the Dittisham Regatta , just across the river, I noticed that their D Zeros all had masthead wallybags

I’ve had the misfortune (or ineptitude) to capsize my D-Zero several times in my short ownership and it has yet to even try to turtle. It, like the Aero, has an external halyard and I assume the mast is effectively sealed (even though there is a join).