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    Posted: 28 May 11 at 7:34pm
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I have sailed the Feva on holiday with Neilson, I found it a great boat to sail. Although I had read reviews on it and spoken to people that have sailed it, don't take their word for it all the time.

I'll agree with the cleat system, it is a bit of a pain at the top of the mast, but as Riki - RS said, it can't go anywhere else.

When I sailed it back from the "Day Trip" the wind was blowing a 5 and with the kite up it was great fun to sail.

RS make good boats, the Feva is aimed at the Juniors but is great for anyone to sail.

 

2006 i wrote the above, 5 years on i now own one and standby the above, great boats

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Five years on from when I made my original comments, I have sailed the Feva a few more times since. I stand by my original comments and those of the others on here, it does have its faults, rudder, main halyard, kicker, tendancy to invert, cockpit layout. I would take a Topaz Race X every time given the choice, a tiny bit slower (except for when it blows) much simpler, better when capsized and very difficult to break. Its aimed at a slightly different market though.
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Depends what you want to do with the boat. If you want a boat that can be sailed seriously and raced then the Laser is a good idea, if you're just looking to have fun and muck around then the Feva is the better choice. There isn't really any racing for a person of your age or weight for the Feva because it is essentially a youth class. Lasers tend to get a massive turn out at class events and open meetings so you will always have someone else to test yourself against, and there are far more people similar to you that sail Lasers.
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where do people find these 5 year old threads from?
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Fevas are dreadful boats.  The front of the cockpit is far too small for the crew, but it is not ballasted correctly for singlehanded sailing.  The jib never goes round the mast, the kicker doesn't ever release, the jib dies about 60 degrees from the wind, the mast is filled with lead and so it generally turtles...I could go on...
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Originally posted by Riki @ RS

The Feva rudder is huge for the size of boat, but gives a really reassuring solid feel, but is quite punishing if the boat is not flat or the blade is not fully rotated down. The depth of the blade means that slight changes in feel are very nticeable on the tiller, but means that the blade maintains grip to quite high levels of heel without stalling.

Riki was the rudder blade for the Feva designed for the boat or is it the same as the blade on other RS boats? ( It looked similar to the 800 and the Vario blade, although I havn't matched them up ) It just seems to me that a boat that has been marketed at beginers, children and sail schools has a rudder that is not fit for purpous.

I don't want to seem down on the boat too much I had one of my best sails of 2006 in a Feva,  3 sails F6-7 and 13st hiking hard, great fun.

Still a N12 is better than a 200, a Merlin is sexer than a 400, the Contender is more fun than a 600, the MPS is reportly better than a 700, a Cherub is so much more exciting than a 800, what happerned to the K6? and lets not talk about the Vision, maybe best compaied to a Topper Cruz . 

IMHO

If RS are giving away boat show tickets then I'd like one



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the mast is stepped into the bottom of the boat with a gate holding it up like a pico or topper. becaue of this there is no need for a forestay alll the time so the jib luff rope is the forestay. however most people put a loop in the halyard and put it round the cleet and back through the loop before tieing it off. you can get enough of tension on like this (i could anyway, and i saw someone else rip the webbing out of the tack of their jib like this) to stop the jib being saggy on most days. however the rope would slip so if you were on the water for a long time on a windy day you ended up with a baggy jib.
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Out of curiosity how does the feva's jib rig?  Is it push clips onto a forestay and hoisted seperately (like 9ers)?  Or does the jib have the forestay integrated?
My point being, if its like 9ers then i dont see the need to be cranking on much tension, simply enough so that it doesnt sag away from the forstay.  However if it's intergrated where by the jib itself holds the halyard tension then a single 1:1 would suggest that a kid wouldnt be able to pull on enough tension to stop the jib sagging. 

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It’s always easy to take pot-shots at boats like the Pico, Topaz Uno and Feva because by their very design brief, they are designed to get people into sailing and have a multi function role thus they are always going to be a bit of a compromise. I sailed a Feva on a Neilson holiday too, their boats are a bit beaten up but we had a good time in them. Most of their hulls were early ones with the reinforcement scaffolding at the transom (one of the things that dissuaded us from buying one) + some of their masts have the cleat for the main halyard relocated to the base of the mast. We very nearly bought ourselves a Feva but in the end decided that the Topper Topaz was better value for money and we’ve subsequently moved onto (slightly) quicker boats. We have fond memories of the Picos and Fevas that we sailed with Neilson and also of our own Topaz (which eventually became a ‘Race X’), these are the boats that got us into sailing in the first place, surely that’s got to be a good thing ?

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I have sailed the Feva on holiday with Neilson, I found it a great boat to sail. Although I had read reviews on it and spoken to people that have sailed it, don't take their word for it all the time.

I'll agree with the cleat system, it is a bit of a pain at the top of the mast, but as Riki - RS said, it can't go anywhere else.

When I sailed it back from the "Day Trip" the wind was blowing a 5 and with the kite up it was great fun to sail.

RS make good boats, the Feva is aimed at the Juniors but is great for anyone to sail.

 
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