HALO (and 'Fire') ....

For context - Burghfield SC is well known to many of you  and has just about 180 acres of usable water. 

Works for most classes both single sail and asymetric but has proved tough for the singlehanded trapeze boats  in the past and double trapeze ones would be unlikely to work well either...  Fireballs, 500's and similar seem fine as do most 'general purpose' asymetrics and regular hiking spinnaker boats.

Mike L.

The whole common/nature reserve at Frensham is about 1,000 acres, think the pond is nearer 60.

I'd not be surprised if Frensham was 300 acres, but unless there are a lot of reed beds, 1000 does seem a lot!

Originally posted by blaze720 Both shots with late prototype 'Fire' sails - so effectively production ones.   The default Fire sail material is however the same stuff as we use for Blaze, Halo2, Blaze and Icon - but if you like the darker stuff it can be supplied for Fire - it makes not a jot of difference  - unless you like it. We and the CA are talking with Y&Y and others about formal reviews of Fire .... and will be providing 2 boats - one a regular full width Blaze with Fire sail and the second a rather lightweight and 'special' Fire ... with fixed narrower wings.   It is also being suggested that whoever reviews it (probably at Lymington btw) is also accompanied by another tester .... someone from the demographic Fire is primarily targetted at ..... female, very lightweight, young or old(er).

Originally posted by blaze720 How did the Blaze go there ?  ... Frensham is not exactly 'large' !

It's hard to say how well suited it was to Foremark as it was my first boat and will likely have gone better in different hands.

When it was blowing hard it was great fun but then I used to spend more team on a close reach than a proper beat in those conditions.

The main issue was that it seemed to be predominantly light winds that year and that's were it struggled because against the phantoms it has virtually no rocker and no matter how far forward you sit it will always drag more arse in the water compared to them.

The other issue was the sudden shifts that we suffer with inland. You can be hiked all or most of the way out and then bang, you're on your arse and the rig is coming over on top of you because there isn't enough time to get off the rack and into the   middle.

I also struggled with offwind speed, but I doubt that's the blaze's fault as I'm just as bad in the phantom now.

Comparitively, the Frensham website says its 1000 acres, Foremark is about a quarter of that.