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    Posted: 19 Jan 14 at 9:44pm
What did you think of the 300? Was it your first go in one?
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Well on a windsurfer, you don't have any of these problems of sails not tacking, or flow not attaching quickly enough and you have a better feel for what's going on because you're holding the sail right there in your hands, so you feel everything.

I'm getting better at sensing things on the dinghy, but I'm still doing it largely through my butt. (Unless it's really light then i can't help myself but stand up and hold the boom directly, always works better for me.) So, a soft sail gives me better response and indication that it's about to stall and the tacking and gybing stuff, so all in all for me full batten OK on a board, but soft is better on boat.
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I love soft sails, for all the reasons you give - I guess I just need the feedback from the rig - so I can see why you might want one. It just surprises me that a top windsurfer feels that way, especially on a pretty quick boat. But on a small lake I can see the corners would make more of a difference than absolute speed, for sure.
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Posts: 6499 		Post Options Post Options   Quote iGRF Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Jan 14 at 6:57pm
No, it's not, once there's 'enough' that there aren't going to be those lulls where you have to yank the rig to get it to fill on the new tack, then I still find the original sail points higher, but the thing I struggle with, getting going after transitions, that works much better with the soft sail.

It's No 124 so really old and shagged
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Well mine has the original sail, so definitely soft by now!  LOL
Early days, but it seems to go OK - looking forward to spending more time with it.
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This one had the normal sail - seemed to go well enough!

I have raced against them in the kind of wind one ought to stay in the bar for, and in that kind of weather a soft sail might be quicker, simply through ease of reading. I can't see it being faster once flow is properly attached, though, especially as you must be an expert with hard sails?
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They go a lot better with a soft sail, but today the 9-12 mph wind seemed to suit it, only the 300 had a discernible turn of better speed and for some reason that is still a puzzle, the Rooster 8.1 off wind.
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Having bought a boat for light winds 3 weeks ago (a Laser EPS), I decided to give it a try for the first time today. 
I fully imagined I would be the only EPS in the universe sailing today, but apparently not - they seem to be everywhere!
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The EPS out at Whitefriars today left us all behind like we were standing still - but then the sailor knows what he is doing, and was able to get ahead and get clear wind, while the rest of us battled it out and got in each other's way. Just showed how quick the EPS is in light (but not dead) winds. Sailed away from a Phantom in the 1st race, too.

Was a perfect spring-like day - this time last year we were a foot deep in snow. No chance for a Mojo to go missing on a day like this.
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Well I had a really good sail today and not a bad race, got off and away from the pin end, lead for a fair while, lost it to the Rooster man on an off wind led that shouldn't happen and got it back on an upwind leg which also shouldn't happen given our totally different specs, me short light, him tall and fairly lithe but must be in the 80 kgs range. Then he disappeared, some thing had broke, and a 300 came through me like a knife through butter, and was gone, couldn't hang on to him at all, it seems faster on all points of sailing.

So I had to have a go in it....
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