The RS100 Owners Thread

So if the racing is getting closer, as you claim, why the need for the split in the fleet? Surely that's a fallacy by definition?

And sorry no, a boat, any boat, which derives its top performance credentials from a blinking big kite (relative to the mainsail) will not be as competitive as a unarig around the cans if it can't get the kite up on the reaches.   No way a 100 will plane upwind- it is marginally quicker than a Laser IMHO. (Some felt differently though). As for unarig off wind... M'eh, the 8.4 is a slouch, the 10.2 has nothing on a phantom or 300.

One trick pony.... But glad you're enjoying the donkey ride, the world would dull if we always all agreed.

Keith - I'm just hilighting the bi-polar performance variation, thus significantly making whether it's on handicap or not so course dependent. This isn't so much of an issue with say the MPS or B14 - both of these plane upwind- their performance windows are tighter so in theory, will have a less course dependent PN, for asymmetric dinghies anyway.

I'm only repeating old news- we've all felt the 100 would benefit from one handicap for WL and a completely different (higher) one for RTC. It's in this thread somewhere before... utterly unworkable as the suggestion may be.

I quite agree with you about the plodding, but at our club (and most within 40 minutes of home) the only SH fleet racing is in Solos or Lasers... I picked the one that would at least attempt to carry me competitively! But this isn't news to the 100 fleet- they'd be one of the first to say where there has been genuine successful adoption it has been because of a decent enough local fleet - Hayling, Parkstone, Gurnard etc.  Away from little lakes with easy going attitudes in similar-ish, suitable boats, handicap racing has always been a poor mans compromise- even more so with boats like the 100 which don't handicap easily.

Edited by pondmonkey - 17 May 13 at 9:46am

Well my experience is that at 92kg (ish) I found the 10.2 a handful and had to depower very early. I also found it a pig to gybe without the kite especially from reach to reach. Now I generally sail club courses which are either triangle sausage or trapezoids.

you're certainly tenacious - I'll give you that James!  But you been banging on about this now for ~3 years and you don't even sail a 100 anymore!  The proposal is just that - subject to discussion and change - and anyway it ought to be up to the 100 sailors how they organise their own events and prizes. Not sure you've been very fair to Keith in these recent discussions - if anything it was that you backed one horse and didn't like it when it didn't win.  'Splits'  'donkeys' - not stirring? - come on!

Originally posted by fab100   This is an RS100 Owners Thread so it's interesting that the nonsense comes from non-100 owners.