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Why not a 29er in waves? they do ok, a fair amount of water comes over the bow but you'd have to be pretty unlucky to bury it properly. We snapped the nylon fitting on the kicker in a F6 gusting F7, would have been fine if we hadnt gone for that little bit of extra tension  but that is the only wind related damage we have had. The boat really does fly in the breezy stuff, even in waves

Originally posted by 29er397 Why not a 29er in waves? they do ok, a fair amount of water comes over the bow but you'd have to be pretty unlucky to bury it properly. We snapped the nylon fitting on the kicker in a F6 gusting F7, would have been fine if we hadnt gone for that little bit of extra tension  but that is the only wind related damage we have had. The boat really does fly in the breezy stuff, even in waves

Agreed, great fun in a blow! Still, I have found it a dog upwind in waves/shot chop, especially compared with an RS800.

These photos show what a force 10 looks like after it has had two days head start & a 150 mile run up,the ship concerned is appox 150 feet long & 40 feet beam to beam,from normal sea level to the radio room roof ( the red bit) 65 / 70 feet.the waveheight was a avg of about 8 meters with the odd 12 meter throw in for fun.

i thought we decided the 3rd one is a fake!

Isn't it wave size an shape that's more important than
waves per se? My Cherub used to hate a short steep
Solent slop, but revel in the Irish sea waves in
Cardigan bay...