two-sail dinghies

The Tasar was designed by Frank for a crew weight of 130 kg. But will easily remain competitive at 140 Kg. I sailed my 35 year old Tasar with new Mylars and combined crew weight of 160Kg into 10th position in this years round Sheppy race only being beaten by Cats an international canoe and a Fireball. So it can be competitive with more weight given the right conditions. The Tasar is now produced by Bethwaite Boats and imported into the UK by Signal Locker based in Lymington. We had 47 boats at our Nationals in Cornwall which demonstrates the class is very much alive and Kicking

 

Rod Porteous

Originally posted by gordon Just been re-reading in an old(ish) copy of Y&Y  the Test of the Albacore. There are probably more classes, but significantly in the above list no design is recent.   Is the market saturated by such a plethora of fantastic boats or can't the major manufacturers be bothered? Gordon

 

How about a boat with a closed cell foam sandwich hull, under 65kg, kevlar /e-glass, a wing mast, the comfiest hiking you will find, upwind planing and a 2005 designed set of new mylars?

Made by proctors, to order.

Well you named it already- the g'day bruce tasar!

The thing is that assym's are so easy to hoist and manage that two sail boats are kind of lost IMHO, despite the fact that a tasar sailed well will eat :

RS200s, vareos, Laser 2000/ 3000 etc and some others in the right puffy stuff.

I think assym's have really opened up sailing to a faster learning curve and bascially, more fun per quid/buck/krone and per hour of precious leisure time.

People who buy around the 1010-1040 assym are often using them to learn on, to get on up to sub 1000 PY assyms later.

 

 

Originally posted by Rupert There was a SMOD clone of the N12 in 1946. It did pretty well! BTW, the Firefly isn't just for lovers team racing - plenty of other stuff going on...

Yeah... I know the Fire Fly has loads eles going on... one being the 194?
Olympic single hander!?

I'm giving up trying to be funny on here it's to much like hard work.

FWIW, i belive that if the 59er had been marketed as a two sailer it would more likley have taken off as a class over here. In most respects the spinnakerized 59er was too fast for most inland lake sailors and having to follow the apparent wind really isn't possible on most lakes. However the ultimate turbo charged enterprise would certainly have garnered a lot of interest from Ent and Alb sailors that I know

Originally posted by Rupert There was a SMOD clone of the N12 in 1946. It did pretty well! BTW, the Firefly isn't just for lovers team racing - plenty of other stuff going on...

And the 200 shares a certain resemblance to a 1970s Morrisson N12 design, so maybe the manufacturers consider that RS have got that area of the market covered too well already?