Rediscovering apparent wind sailing

As some of you already know I've bought myself an asymmetric vortex to sail. Not because I really wanted one but just because I wanted a cheap, easy to sail single hander with a kite, that I could race in our fast fleet. And the Vortex seemed to fit the bill perfectly

But I'll hopefully be sailing it now though to Easter at least :-)

Ian

Glad you're enjoying an asymmetric anyway.

Jimbo

edit- and yes Grumpf should get one for the Sea sailing.

So you do need to accept that it will never sail like a dinghy but if you do then there is plenty of fun to be had.

My first sail was on a light and fluky day and Mangoman was pretty much packed away and showered before I even made it to the  beech, which at the time was very frustrating. But then I look back on it and realise that it was a pleasant enough sail and that the guy how had recently bought a 700 capsized at least twice and probably arrived back much colder and wetter than I was so perhaps it could have been worse.

Second sail was in 25knts plus and was pretty full on. I went into irons on pretty much every tack and again could have got back pretty frustrated... but then again if I had bought a 700 or perhaps another Musto i doubt I would have made it off the beech, so again it could have been a lot worse.

And then last weekend we had 7-10 mph lots of sunshine and with the Vortex unsticking and starting to shift when the 800's were still struggling to get planing efficiently I started to realise that as long as you can accept its many short comings there is actually a lot of good sailing and fun to be had for not that much money. As i say... it could be worse.

Ian