HALO (and 'Fire') ....

Are there any pictures of the new Halo rig?

Hi Toby - Will be sorted very soon.  The fact is all the production Halo2 sails we pre-ordered was sold in 48 hours of announcement and were delivered/shipped on arrival.  Yes - there was a fair bit of latent demand out there ... we underestimated.

But hopefully will have another one at least for initial 'on-the-water' shots this weekend.   It would have been a bit hard on someone if we had kept one back and waiting for marketing type 'sun n wind'.

In the meantime I'll trawl through the R&D images and see what is presentable..  We've got some nice Fire ones at least.

Mike L.

One a seperate subject - I've sailed a Blaze a couple of times in the Frensham Frenzy.  No problem and it is a great club (but I do generally prefer larger waters personally).  Don't see any reason why the larger Halo2 with its acceleration could not work as well. 

The key I think is the switch to 'off boom' sheeting with the Blaze/Halo/Fire hull (in fact it is an option)- It allows the crew to tack with their weight much further forward.  The old centremain system was OK but forced the crew back down the boat making tacking a fair bit slower as you could depress the stern - especially if you were of a generous size !   This single change makes the hull much more suited to these smaller waters now - the 'sacrifice' involved with each  tack is today token at worst.   There are other real advantages but this one was a key one.


Edited by blaze720 - 24 Sep 14 at 9:31am

Originally posted by Blue One Frensham is an ocean compared to where I sail.

All I ever remember of Frensham is weed, weed, weed and more weed....

I had a look at their results not long ago, wondering how Clive and I note Nick Craig did so well in assym single handers, it would have to be big enough for them to use their kites to advantage, and or the big sail on the RS100, that small sail would fall prey to anyone half decent in a Laser.

When are we going to hear about or see pictures of the 'Fire' after it's recent overall victory at the Round Island race?

I'm not sure which I'm more mad about, one boat being overly handicap advantaged or the other being overly disadvantaged, why can't folk just go in the middle and shoot for a fair figure?

I am guessing 806 is the 'Fire'sail despite having Blaze written on it.....

Originally posted by blaze720 Keeping the luff length works well and ‘Fire’ is very very 'easy' without too much of a pace compromise... and certainly not by 15%.