RS 600 where now?

I have owned and sailed mustos for over 10 years as well as the 600. They each have strengths and weaknesses predominantly depending on where you sail.

My main club is Wilsonian where we have a strong musto fleet. There are often long runs of over a mile around river bends with much gybing which is great fun. In the winter I like to do the bough beech icicle series in January and February. This is very popular with up to 70 boats on the water. With the assymetric blind spot you can't commit to max speed down runs because your mostly concentrating on not hitting anyone! When you are racing 600 against other 600s I also think they are just as much fun downwind, and obviously more suitable for smaller sailing locations.

With regard to the rig, the brief I suspect is similar to the 800 a few years back. This means the modifications need to be made with no change to the performance. If the new and old sails are overlaid I suspect the alterations will be marginal at best. As was pointed out earlier by Mozzy, marginal changes and investment will not take you from the middle to the front of fleet. Training with like minded buddies might.

The fleet progress is amazing with 30 boats at the nationals. The breeze was strong and there was only one breakage as far as I'm aware. The oldest boats are still competitive. A great event in fast fun and fordable boats, (3 F's almost worked).

Pros and cons to each I guess, development classes are always going to look for a performance edge though irrespective of if it makes the boat harder to sail. The 600 is not a dev. class so does not need to do that.

Originally posted by The Moo Does it sound like an old taxi though?

Does it sound like an old taxi though?

Exactly... Still doesn't seem right to me.