Dinghy development: RS Feva Experiences

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RS Feva Experiences

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Topic: RS Feva Experiences

Posted By: Norwegian winds
Subject: RS Feva Experiences
Date Posted: 17 Jun 05 at 10:57pm

Hi,

I have just started to work with the RS Feva in Norway. My first impression is very good. With a light beer belly, I even took my wife for a ride, overloading the boat with at least 30 kg´s, still it sailed well (in force 4, that is).

I understand the boat is quite popular in UK. What is Your experience after some year´s use, various sailing conditions, various crew combinations, and so on.

Please tell!

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Bjorn Olsson

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Posted By: jpbuzz591
Date Posted: 18 Jun 05 at 7:25am

Yeah i think that they are a solid boat and they do sail well and are stable. They are also used quite a bit in the sailing schools here in Britain. good fun.

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Jp Indoe
Contender 518
Buzz591
Chew Valley Sailing club
Bristol

Posted By: Wave Rider
Date Posted: 18 Jun 05 at 8:36am

Well i used one at rockley for the weeks and it was generally f4-5 and they always seemed fairly fast with the spinnaker up, so yeah good fun for a junior boat !

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-[Franko]-
Chew Valley Lake Sailing Club
RS600 933

Posted By: ssailor
Date Posted: 18 Jun 05 at 8:59pm

Definetly a good junior boat, hikin straps are in the wrong place for an adult, but good for a child. Pretty quick offwind - ive sailed one in a force 7, absolutely flies offwind- suffers slightly upwind due to length

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Posted By: Wave Rider
Date Posted: 18 Jun 05 at 11:02pm

Yeah they nosedive a lot upwind if your overweight, i found that aswell ! and yeah they do fly offwind

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-[Franko]-
Chew Valley Lake Sailing Club
RS600 933

Posted By: smoking gun
Date Posted: 21 Jun 05 at 8:43am

There have been problems with the Mylor sails breaking up if they are allowed to flog

http://www.rs-association.com/snitz/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=214 - http://www.rs-association.com/snitz/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=214

So you need to take care

I have also heard there are concerns that plastic boats are not very good when raced hard, apparently this is one of the reasons why the Pico was never pushed as a racing class. It is very difficult to make a robust race boat out of plastic that is not too heavy but can take the higher loads.

Posted By: Peter Rhodes
Date Posted: 21 Jun 05 at 11:52am

so how come the topper has been so sucsessful as a raceboat?

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Posted By: Matt Jackson
Date Posted: 21 Jun 05 at 12:50pm

It's a different process for a start Topper=Injection Moulded. Pico/Feva=Rotomoulded. You can get much more complex shapes with an injection moulding so you can mould-in stiffness features etc.

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Laser 203001, Harrier (H+) 36

Posted By: Peter Rhodes
Date Posted: 21 Jun 05 at 1:19pm

I'm sure I heard that the topper was rotomoulded?

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Posted By: Matt Jackson
Date Posted: 21 Jun 05 at 3:53pm

Nope. Topper (the company) make some rotomoulded boats but the Topper (the dinghy) is definitely injection moulded.

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Laser 203001, Harrier (H+) 36

Posted By: Pierre
Date Posted: 21 Jun 05 at 4:33pm

At its birth the Topper was the biggest injection moulded piece of plastic in the world....and could still be AFAIK.

Posted By: pro wannabe
Date Posted: 21 Jun 05 at 7:43pm

the rs feva is great! for the kids at my club there good with the little rigs, for the more experienced the big rig is good and i love raceing them single handed with the big main and spinni, the only people these dont compensate for are heaveir teens who want to sail 2 up and adults who want to sail 2 up, but theyve normally got their own boats any way!

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