29er
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Category: Dinghy classes
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Topic: 29er
Posted By: Smight at BBSC
Subject: 29er
Date Posted: 18 Sep 07 at 9:36pm
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Crew weight anyone? 23 stone too much? ------------- RS600 988 |
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Posted By: Ross
Date Posted: 18 Sep 07 at 9:40pm
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Taken from the Ovington website: "The 29er provides sparkling performance at an affordable price, for crews between 110 - 135 kg, making this an ideal boat for husband/wife teams as well as for younger sailors." ------------- Ross If you can't carry it, don't sail it! |
Posted By: Smight at BBSC
Date Posted: 18 Sep 07 at 9:47pm
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yea but that doesn't seem like much to me only about 21 stone ------------- RS600 988 |
Posted By: Ross
Date Posted: 18 Sep 07 at 9:55pm
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Well, to heavy for a 29er? Go 49er! 21 stone seems to light, I reckon you'll be fine at 23 stone. I sail the 3000 with a combined weight of 21 stone.
------------- Ross If you can't carry it, don't sail it! |
Posted By: Prince Buster
Date Posted: 18 Sep 07 at 10:45pm
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I usually sail my 29er with a crew weight of 23 stone and we are
definitely on the heavy side - struggle quite a lot in any
lightness. Sometimes I sail with my cousin and we're 20 stone
together and are pretty much perfect in terms of weight for performance
across the wind range. The thing about the 29er is that it's dog
slow in displacement mode so you want to be powered up and planing on
all points of sailing as soon as possible to be competitive, especially
in handicap fleets. The rig also depowers very effectively and
the boat can be driven well by a light crew even when the wind really
gets up.
------------- international moth - "what what?" |
Posted By: wetandwindy
Date Posted: 18 Sep 07 at 10:55pm
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"Well, to heavy for a 29er? Go 49er! 21 stone seems to light, I reckon you'll be fine at 23 stone. I sail the 3000 with a combined weight of 21 stone." Nah Get a 59er with a wire, it's like a 29er but much faster. We sail with about 21-22 stone and 23 would be about perfect. ------------- RULE 99.9 section A: Fast boats with big spinnakers have right of way. |
Posted By: Medway Maniac
Date Posted: 19 Sep 07 at 1:05am
And your sailing committee let you get away with that on the usual PY of 905? ------------- http://www.wilsoniansc.org.uk" rel="nofollow - Wilsonian SC http://www.3000class.org.uk" rel="nofollow - 3000 Class |
Posted By: lazy mavis
Date Posted: 19 Sep 07 at 9:38am
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23 stone? Perfect weight for a B14 mavis x  ------------- whatever |
Posted By: Smight at BBSC
Date Posted: 19 Sep 07 at 1:20pm
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yea i know but it's not up to me, i have a boat, i'm just going through the options for mopps, who is currently looking thanks guys i thought we'd be too heavy ------------- RS600 988 |
Posted By: wetandwindy
Date Posted: 19 Sep 07 at 4:42pm
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[/QUOTE] And your sailing committee let you get away with that on the usual PY of 905? [/QUOTE] Oh yes. For now at least, Dave Hall suggests it may go down to 875 or 880. Given that our closest competitors sail Laser2000s and a Blaze their handicaps are at least as favourable as ours. ------------- RULE 99.9 section A: Fast boats with big spinnakers have right of way. |
Posted By: k_kirk
Date Posted: 19 Sep 07 at 5:32pm
Or you could go the Solo29er route and have all the fun to yourself. How many kilos are you yourself? ------------- http://gaijinonfoils.blogspot.com/ - Gaijin on Foils |
Posted By: Smight at BBSC
Date Posted: 19 Sep 07 at 5:53pm
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Read my last post mate ------------- RS600 988 |
