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    Posted: 07 Feb 14 at 9:06pm
Beautiful boat. Why can't all classes have a jib window like that?
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Some X1 photos
Need to get some photos with the kite up.

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Chris, we did ok, sailing the 200 towards the back of the fleet cruised around the course without swimming.

On a side note have you seen the video from the TV event at Oxford back in November? It's on YouTube.
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Great race with Val up to that point, then schoolboy error. Mainsheet pulling tiller out of my hand at the end of the gybe, capsize, too much time recovering kite. Never mind, loads of fun! We are now owed a light airs BM.
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You're damn right you did.

That would have been me and Martin and just goes to show that Val and Roger in the other X1 sailed a much better race than us - no capsizes there.

Getting the main sheet wrapped round the tiller would have been the deliberate mistake.

We're putting in time to do all these windy Bloody Mary's on the promise that we've had (...?) that it will be a lighter wind one at some stage, which we are looking forward to.

How did you get on?
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I saw the X1 today...I also saw the underside of the hull a few times, it looks shiny!

Chris, hope you had a good sail.
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Should be 2 of us in X1s at the Bloody Mary - Forecast looks a tad windy for us, though I think we will miss having snow!
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Hi Chris,
Thanks for that, I’ll add them to the list. Would be great to see the X1/X0 in the flesh (and to have a go ) Very welcome to join us at L&L, plenty of boats to race against. I think it would do very well on our water!
Yes we started making adjustments in Autumn this year and it seems to be going well. (Our 400 is 939) Other classes have had minor changes (one bad tack in time) apart from the Topper where we’ve added 30pts.
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Hi Alex,

Looks like you've had a very successful start to your winter series and I hope at some stage an X1 or an X0 will get along to L&L and join in the fun.

The X1 has been fairly extensively tested at Queen Mary SC and assessed by Andrew Craig (handicapper of the Bloody Mary) as the same as an RS400 (this of course is an average, and one would expect the X1 to be slightly faster in lighter winds while the RS400 will be faster in stronger winds - do have a chat with Redders from the Forumites Open meeting who sails an RS400 and has experience against the X1, and I think he will confirm this).

We have not done so much testing in the smaller rigged X0 - but Andrew's assessment is around 3% slower.
We have just got back this weekend from a regatta in Germany where we were given the same (German yardstick) handicap as a 470 - whose most recent PY was I think 973. We had predominantly very light winds which definitely favoured us, luckily being able to discard the one heavier wind race...... see http://www.bsc-hamburg.de/static/regatta/ergebnisse/2012/letzte_helden_yardstick.htm
Once this smaller rig is tried out in a whole range of wind speeds, I suspect that the handicap will end up very slightly higher.

So the short answer to your question is, for starters:
X1 - 948
X0 - 978

Being responsible for this X0/X1 project, though, I have to declare my commercial interest in this, and also the fact of course that you should be adjusting all PYs for your particular waters anyway, if you believe appropriate (.... I sail at London Corinthian on the heavily tidal Thames mostly against Lasers and Enterprises, and with tide making such a huge difference, we are already adjusting the X1's 948 PY down to 900).

Are you making many adjustments to PYs at L&L, at the mo?
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Post Options Post Options   Quote AlexM Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 Nov 12 at 11:27am
Hi
Im just updating our results sheet with new boats and if we had a X1 or X0 come to L&L whats the PY atm?

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