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    Posted: 28 Feb 14 at 3:40pm
Originally posted by Rupert

So, 30kgs - more like it for lifting around the place, but will it stand the knocks and bumps of time?



No reason why not, but then you won't have to drag it up the beach, at that weight you pick the whole lot up and walk with it windsurfer style, it's taken long enough, but sounds like all my banging on about how heavy things are has finally stopped falling on deaf ears..
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Originally posted by Rupert

So, 30kgs - more like it for lifting around the place, but will it stand the knocks and bumps of time?

I'll believe that when I see a fitted out production boat on the scales ...

An RS200 is still listed as a hull weight of 78kgs on their website ... Confused
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Originally posted by L123456


Originally posted by Rupert

So, 30kgs - more like it for lifting around the place, but will it stand the knocks and bumps of time?


I'll believe that when I see a fitted out production boat on the scales ...
An RS200 is still listed as a hull weight of 78kgs on their website ... Confused


Bet the hull weight is that - before its outfitted!
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And when you capsize and get separated from the boat it'll blow away
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I haven't been following this thread but I have just found this photo, apparently it's going to be called the Aero, but you probably already know this.
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Looks good doesn't it Reuben!

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Originally posted by Neptune

Originally posted by L123456


Originally posted by Rupert

So, 30kgs - more like it for lifting around the place, but will it stand the knocks and bumps of time?


I'll believe that when I see a fitted out production boat on the scales ...
An RS200 is still listed as a hull weight of 78kgs on their website ... Confused


Bet the hull weight is that - before its outfitted!

I believe the answer when I questioned this was that the 78 was the bare hull moulding; you then add a thwart, grab rails, bow sprite, toe straps and fittings. That gets you to something like 93kgs if my memory serves me correctly. It is the 93 kg figure that most people would consider to be the hull weight ... I guess the definition of hull varies.

With the Aero I expect the quoted 30 may be fore it is fitted etc ...

Anyway I don'k know why SMOD vendors mess about with "hull" weight .... just tell us the all up sailing weight as that is what really matters.

I suspect people with visions of launching the Z/Aero's like a windsurfer carrying it like a month will be disappointed. By the time you add the rig, sails, foils and spars I suspect they will be around the 60kg mark ... which is still very light compared to the good old Laser ... but quite some weight to carry down a beach ...
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At a push, can a healthy man get it from a dolly to a roof on his own? If the answer is yes, then it's delivering a USP I'd personally value- as would travel time not being stuck on the inside two lanes at 60mph....

Edit- sorry if that reads sexist, not meant to...

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The boom seems to bending a lot in the photos, so I wonder what the weight range is.
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Originally posted by L123456

Anyway I don'k know why SMOD vendors mess about with "hull" weight

Traditionally the stripped weight without spars and so on was what one design classes were weighed in at, so I guess it was the sort of figure most folk were used to seeing.
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