Nationals attendance.

Originally posted by RS400atC Originally posted by iitick ...... Perhaps if this "guy" gets fed up he might contact the Lightning Class Association where there is a shortage of boats.    You should be more encouraging, like telling him he'll learn lots coming to an event or two. So he can boost his club performance to super GRF beating levels.....

I do encourage him/them and they are mustard keen, they sail an L3k just like my old one not sure they're ready just yet for external humiliation and certainly not on inland water at the hands of silver fox shift monkeys even I'd baulk at that task, he needs a winter down the lake that'll be ritual enough..

her indoors has one so of course I had to check it over for her.  I am soemwhat larger than the average female, but found the sail plenty big enough.  A sweet boat, easy to rig and tweaky enough for me.  Had it been windy and we had been at home I would have taken it to the Nationals.  

I need to get him down the lake in it, maybe I need to borrow it myself and have a bash in it, maybe when it's windy, that big sail on the EPS can be a bit of a handfull at times, especially when it's gusty, you can't really use the racks they're too far out to react to the sharp on off and shifty gusts they get down there.

So, truthfull answer now, Streaker v Lightning which is quicker when? I can't seem to get enough stats to side by side the pair, on the face of it if I were guessing I'd give it to the lightning in a drifter and the streaker when the wind builds then once it's a four or above it would be just down to the helms, would that be far off the truth?

Yep, that's the reason, no competition between builders, sailmakers etc which is what's also driving those other classes, I can see the attraction having now spent all this evening so far pawing over the website and looking at what it's competitors have going for them (which frankly aint much I think it's a nice boat but you need a bit more competition between the suppliers).

I wouldn't say that the new boats are very different from the old. A quick glance at the recent results shows that. There are improvements which must slightly increase performance but this will only become noticeable at the top end of the fleet. The 'boy' has a carbon topped mast which may help him in a blow whearas later masts are stiffer I believe.