X1 Dinghy

Originally posted by alstorer TW do have some odd rules-

I think that much "sports" attire became popular when it became fashionable and/or sexy. I remember cycling round Herne Hill cycle track (velodrome?) with my trousers tucked in my socks and not feeling out of place. Sailing gear was oilskins, wooly jumpers and kapok lifejackets. A far cry from all those Oppy sailors resplendent in Zhik. Do they call it "technical clothing" or "engineered" these days? I am fortunate because I have the boys cast offs and good old Decathlon.

Incredible race in Hamburg last weekend with ChrisI and the X1 - We had to change crew every round, 7 times in all. Highly recommended. We almost won it by 5 mins! Don't worry video is less than 3 mins. Sunshine shorts and T-shirt too.



Edited by x1testpilot - 26 Oct 12 at 2:02pm

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?

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!