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jaydub 
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 Topic: D-ZeroPosted: 26 Nov 14 at 8:36pm |
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If you do manage to sort something out, I might be interested in checking the Zero out. No plans at all to buy one, but I would like to make my own assessment about whether it lives up to all the well meaning hype.
I think your club might be closer to home than ours!
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jeffers
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Posted: 26 Nov 14 at 5:04pm |
I have dropped you a PM with some details on.
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Paul
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Washy71
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Posted: 26 Nov 14 at 4:57pm |
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Calling the vendor would seem a reasonable move.
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D-Zero GBR71
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iiitick
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Posted: 26 Nov 14 at 4:51pm |
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As we sat steaming in the clubhouse between races last Sunday we discussed alternatives to our Byte/Lightning/supernova fleet and the subject of D Zero came up. How does one attract a demonstrator to our club in deepest darkest Derbyshire?
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Null
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Posted: 24 Nov 14 at 2:04pm |
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I know that Rodney was looking at lifting rudders as an option at some point Porky. Be worth speaking with him at Suntouched to see if its any further down the line. He is fairly busy with some other developments at the moment, but its defiantely worth checking in with him. However like others have said you can sail the boat with allot of the rudder lifted and you are more likely to run aground with the board before the rudder.
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Thunder Road
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Posted: 24 Nov 14 at 1:20pm |
Quite light yesterday and sailed well out with half rudder blade down and could probably have sailed like that all day! I must admit I raced yesterday and when we had finished instead of going straight in I sailed up and down the lake just for the fun of it. I haven't done that for years and in my humble opinion that is the difference between the D-0 and anything else I've sailed for a long time  |
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Finn GBR16 Thunder Road.
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kneewrecker
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Posted: 24 Nov 14 at 1:04pm |
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The Aero rudder has an integrated 'breaker' doesn't it? I thought Grumpf was pretty impressed with it.
FWIW - I can confirm that you can sail the Zero with 1/2 rudder down when launching and recovering really, really easily. You only need to lock your S-Foils into Attack Position when you are racing.
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jeffers
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Posted: 24 Nov 14 at 12:58pm |
Now worse than sailing anything like a Laser IMO. The dagger is likely to hit first (depending on point of sailing of course) and, as long as it is not too windy, you can sail round quite happily with it 1.4 to 1.2 raised without much of an issue. I prefer having a cassette rudder too, when you raise you still have steerage without the additonal load you get with a kick up rudder. If in unfamiliar water you run the same risk, if the Aero rudder (or any boats rudder) is secured down fully then there is a risk of damaging the transom if you run aground.
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Paul
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porkyman
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Posted: 24 Nov 14 at 12:42pm |
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Im considering the zero and the aero.They both look great to me, although I have sailed neither yet. One concern I have about the zero, is the `cassette rudder`. I know many classses have those (or fixed), but i sail in a lake with a few shallows, I would worry about hitting the shallows at speed, and ripping the transom fittings off. I know the rudder blade can be raised, but what about sailing in unfamiler water ? I assume the rudder on the aero rudder can `kick-up`?
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Null
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Posted: 23 Nov 14 at 5:17pm |
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Had a great weekend racing at draycote at the dash, really tough conditions and hard to compete with a low py, but really happy with how the boat performed. Me being the limiting factor! Really starting to fall back in love with sailing now.
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