Curtains for Assymetrics?

Originally posted by yellowwelly I'm not sure Spartan wetsuits are really good for dinghy sailing though ..

You can say that again, funny I was ordering wetsuits from the Oneil rep yesterday and they don't do surface sport suits really nor any dinghy specific, the rep actually suggested Neil Pryde or Gul, seemed to think there were some re-enforced butt suits, I've trashed every suit I own with this sitting down nonsense..

Edited by iGRF - 18 Sep 13 at 1:06pm

I'm another one off the their lake this afternoon too.  I'll be windsurfing probably given the abundance of breeze today, although the retired guys will be out in the Solos if I fancy a dinghy dash instead... I'm not sure Spartan wetsuits are really good for dinghy sailing though and those truly awesome hikers from Sandiline are hanging in the garage, not in my kit bag.

Edited by yellowwelly - 18 Sep 13 at 12:53pm

Originally posted by winging it foilers will have the same issue as fast assymetircs - most club waters are too small for

Yes I can see that now, thanks to my lake adventures which hopefully should continue this very afternoon. However I still think something like the Icon with a kite option would be an answer, it's just smal enough to be used on the lake, maybe even with a kite if it could be deployed and recovered quickly = small, then with a larger option for the sea. I can't understand why builders don't make their boats more 'convertible' and thus more versatile. I guess it's the necessity to class convention getting in the way as usual..

foilers will have the same issue as fast assymetircs - most club waters are too small for the speed!

At the moment Hunts has a couple of 3000s racing, quite a few vagos (we bought two with our Sport England grant last year) plus an RS200.  I think a couple of buzzes will be venturing out soon too.  There were some 2000s racing when I joined a few years back but we don't see them racing now.  There is an rS400 at the club but really the water is too small.

Otherwise mostly we see a lot of single handers plus a couple of fireballs, some Ents, a Merlin, an occasional 470. 

I will be racing my contender at Grafham this winter, until I get the D1 which will either go to Grafham which does good assy racing, or Oxford with the other guys. 

Originally posted by yellowwelly The bottom line, it left me questioning the point of an asymmetric on anything without the power to weight ratio offer proper apparent wind sailing.