custom colours are in

What great news, both that you can get a proper boat built in the UK again and the price reduction.  Albeit a far cry from where the marketed price used to be (please correct me if i am wrong RS)  RBstretch whats wrong with the 300 rig?  How heavy are you?  There are some very big boys sailing the 300 who are at a guess a fair bit bigger than 100kg.  I myself was 95kg at my heaviest in the 300.  I never had an issue with the mast bending in anyway other than how it was designed?!  Its a really rewarding boat to sail and has one of the broadest competitive weight ranges of any single hander.

Originally posted by gbr940 Really good to hear that a) they are still being built and b) being built in the UK.   BUT...come on RS, it's hardly a "custom" colour (more an option of a limited menu) if you offer a small selection of "other" colours, saying that it's a damn site better then the boring RS "battleship grey" they have been using the last few years.   Come on RS...you can do better then that!

You are a prime example of why a free reign on colour isn't always a good idea!

Never seen those sails before... They look good!

Stretch.  it does sound a bit alien to me.  The 300 rig is bendy (as are most unstayed carbon rigs) You are right the rig will bend when you apply kicker and mainsheet tension, more so than your Phantom which will do the same but obviously has stays to control the bend.  You need to preset the kicker primary lines to prebend the mast the 300 has an elasticate bolt rope to allow for the flexible mast the right kicker tension is critical in helping flatten off the sail.  As is mainsheet tension.  it can be easy in my experience to oversheet the boat and stall out the sail.  In light airs the leech is hooked and the sail looks IMO awful.  But in about a F3 whenthe boat is powered up the leech works well the mast is very light and bendy towards the top of the rig and you get a reasonable exhaust from the leach when you hike and a gust hits.  All in all the rig works very well IMO, it has plenty of power but does need a bit of work to set up properly.  Its more to feel and time in the boat where as the Phantom you can get some fast numbers and get the boat dialled more easily.  Also there were a batch of 3's which had dodgy rake, i beleive this was fixed fairly quickly but if you tried one of them i can imagine it wouldnt feel very satisfying.

as a big 600 fan and ex class rep i would agree with ruscoe but as the rig works well along with the sail i would say why? maybe just change the colour of sail cloth not the shape or design and if they start looking to develop it the price would go up ?