D-Zero

Originally posted by Er-Indoors Rupert you have nothing to worry about!  Lightning still ticks all the boxes if I want to keep sailing - now I have experienced a centreboard I would never go back to a daggerboard anyhow...And half the attraction of the class is knowing the nice people.

I was going so you might re-consider a daggerboard the next time you've got a slot gasket to repair or replace.... bloody awful things.  But then I remembered Nessa actually likes all that sort of thing... she must have been a glue sniffer in the 80's or something.

When the time comes, I will be expecting 'hiking lessons' from a certain Mr Holman.  I'm not interested in the maximise your body weight slingsby crap he is no doubt well practiced at, I want to know about the cheating style where you don't expend that much energy but concentrate on 'other things' to maximise boat speed.

Originally posted by iGRF  leaning out with a short upper body is next to useless.

Edited by Medway Maniac - 26 Feb 14 at 11:36am

Originally posted by rodney Originally posted by iGRF Originally posted by Medway Maniac A boat that narrow will derive quite a lot of its righting moment from hiking.  It's not for you Grumph. Yeah you're probably right, he was hanging out a lot at the FOM, but then I couldn't get near him even with the wings on my EPS and they come with other issues, like windward capsizes if the wind suddenly drops or heads, it's not much fun being short upper body in a dinghy, not like windsurfing where you just cant the rig further over. It's such a lovely boat though.. So, how heavy are you then?

Us girls don't like to talk about our weight and I've allowed my self to 'bulk up' to 70 kgs as it is, I'm a right tubby rhino at the moment. (It's ten per cent over my fit fighting weight of 63kgs which is the optimum weight for homo sapiens anything more is obesity).

tbh it's not the weight, it's the ability to get what I have got far enough out. I've got quite long legs but they all stay in the boat and unless I indulge in all that ungentlemanly ass hanging over the side uncoolness leaning out with a short upper body is next to useless.