RS Aero - a new bandit?

http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/177545/Bowmoor-Six-Hour-Race

iGRF, Which aerospace company?

The write-up implies that the Aero 7 merely pipped the Laser on the water at the end, yet beat the Laser on handicap. That suggests they used a similar PY for the Aero 7 to the Laser - which would clearly be crazy.

Edited by Medway Maniac - 08 Jul 14 at 3:40pm

Originally posted by PeterG Er, why? ]

So the sport can have a future amongst modern people, who didn't bath in a tin bath in front of a coal fire, stitch together their own wetsuit complete with a beer matt in the back side, and shuffle their zimmer down to the lake in their socks in sandals, to polish the varnish on their sailing coffin, then ghost round the course over taking everyone in the light wind because their junk seems peculiarly able to work when none of the other boats do, then steal all the chocolates and smug off home leaving the showers full of strands of lank grey hair..

Edited by iGRF - 08 Jul 14 at 4:05pm

Originally posted by Medway Maniac Originally posted by iGRF A shame they made them a bit short, put that bloody bulkhead too far back into the cockpit and gave them a crap sailcloth rig. Still it could be the start of a new era and all those other builders will have to look to their laurels.. So they need a different hull and rig, but otherwise they're great....because they're 21st century.

No I didn't say that, I'm just a bit picky, but see one sail it, pick it up... Although you have a nice boat so probably won't be as impressed, those V3000's are fine.