The RS100 Owners Thread

Could Paul follow Mr Bollands example at the sprints? All it needs is someone to lead him astray....

Bit late on the discussion but just put the boat back together after a long break, sadly not going to make the nationals though. When rigging up I thought I would try making the spreaders longer, before seeing this thread.  On a windward leeward course I dont think it makes any difference at all, the shrouds are still slack upwind and downwind I cant see it making any difference.  What I did find was on a beam reach in medium to heavy winds it makes the power delivery very sudden.  I don't like it so tonight moved it back, seems easier and more forgiving.  I also think it makes gybing easier in strong winds or without the kite up with the spreaders narrower, just more flex in the rig to give you that extra split second to hit the new side.

Not sure I need any leading astray, I can normally take care of that myself!!

Funnily enough i think it was early in the life of this thread i suggested that you do this.  It was never going to work with the poor definition between the 8.4 and 10.2 rigs that you get a proper bonified split PY.  So i think its great for the 100 to have the ability to swap.  The 10.2 is a realy light wind bandit but i can imagine it to be bloody hard work in a decent breeze on any kind of lumpy (or even flat) stuff.  The 8.4 looked hard enough to me at POSH!  I guess then you can have the best of both worlds.  The only negative i can see is that the 100 will be quicker in all conditions and would almost certainly drive the PY down further.  Imagine those lightweight skimmers in a 10.2 in a nice Wednesday night breeze.  But, as has been mentioned before this sport is all about compromise, so if the compromise is you drop the PY for a more versityle ride then so be it. 

I know that I'm not part of the class nor have I sailed one, but I do think that you might have a good point to this rig swapping idea, to a point. I think that you would be better off saying that you can only swop down from your declared rig, which means that people can depower once it gets a little windy. swoping up just seems a little counter intuitive if there are no prizes to be had. also unfair on the heavier sailors that can't go to a 12m rig, etc. These people could then get in the way of those not swopping (especially those going to 10.2 on those remaining in the 8) and affect their results, wait for the protests for redress on that one. it is less likely that someone swopping down would do this.