The RS100 Owners Thread

Originally posted by RS400atC Perhaps in a handicap fleet, the closest parallel to allowing multiple rigs would be with yachts?   In IRC for example, you get a rating cert based on the biggest sails. If you choose to change down to a smaller rig to suit the conditions, you keep the same handicap. It's different to the Laser/4.7/Rooster 8.? model, but equally valid. So why not race them all level and encourage people to have two or three sails and use the one they choose for each race? Maybe as the class grows it will be worth splitting the fleet, but if people are happy as it is, people outside the class, particularly RO's should be happy to accept it as one class with one PY.   Other examples: Using a small kite for a windy day on a 505 'Cruising' rig on an Enterprise- these used to appear at the Southport 24hrs, with no handicap involved, to be changed down to in the event of lots of breeze.

Edited by timg - 18 Oct 10 at 12:29pm

Hi Tim,

How you doing ? Looked like a cracking event you guys had down in Valencia. Some serious talent sailing to !

I agree with you totally.

At the clubs where I sail we can pretty much use the Laser as a direct comparison as it has three sail size variants.

For club racing we can't 'chop and change' between rigs and score results in the same series. The guys who sail Laser Full Rig and Laser Radial (and girls who sail Laser Radial and Laser 4.7) score a separate set of results for each sail size. The OOD doesn't do this on visual recognition - the category is taken from the signing on sheet so to some degree relies on the sailor to be honest - although your own class mates would pretty quickly spot this !

Interestingly the Solo sailors at our club have a smaller high wind sail, which they can use without restriction if they wish - I understand they don't do this because the small sail badly upsets the balance of the boat. Most of the sailors also have a flatter high wind full size sail they can use.

I understand the D-one now has a smaller sail option. How are you guys dealing with that in terms of results etc. ?

Cheers

Chris

I think you are missing my point slightly.  If the boat is to have interchangeable rigs, then thats great!  Is a big tick in the box for a lot of people. But the class needs 1 PY not 3.  If each rig size is to be a different class of boat like the laser then the rigs need to be identifiable and not interchangeable between races in a series.  Whats stopping someone changing rig sizes at say the tiger trophy?  Its very hard to police and definitely not in the spirit of the competition but it could happen. RS400atC  you can't really swap to the old rules Kite on a 5o5 as the halyard take off is a metre further up the mast.  You could use a different cut, but i don't see the point really as the kite is manageable in just about anything.

This is why I believe the D1 will prosper and the 100 struggle should the 100 be interchangable with rigs during series.

Sorry, Captainslow, our mails crossed, but you can see, RS100 Class does not allow for swapping rigs within a regatta or series: