Single-hander for estuary sailing

Supernova is a great boat, particularly if you can find an epoxy one. I had two and there is no problem with pointing. People jump in complain they don't point, but sail them correctly i.e dead flat and slightly free because of the battened sail and you can climb over a laser. 20ish points faster than a laser and good fun. 

Good Choice, and don't be too despondent, the handicap is quite fair imv, (I'm getting the bandit accusations already)what other stuff are you sailing against? I'm finding it very close to the speed of a Laser which funnily enough is now what the handicap suggests, so if you sail it well you can beat them if you don't then they'll beat you. Upwind you have to work very hard and they don't necessarily have to work as hard, offwind on a tight reach you are marginally faster, on a broad reach is pretty much even steven and on a dead run if they can run by the lee they'll have you. So a really aggressively sailed laser I've yet to beat, but normal humans that make mistakes can be, simply because it's an easier boat to sail I think and it gets going off the line a bit quicker, at least that's how I've managed it so far, and good starts are everything in close racing.

Well the couple of times I used it on the lake against the guy in the Laser who normally will give me a good shoeing unless i sail error free it was a close run thing, but I have managed to beat him. Out on the sea where it's been quite breezy I got beaten by a well sailed laser first time, (he wasn't there) but the times since in light to medium conditions I've managed to extend the lead, in fact other than the time I quite literally chucked myself out of the boat, he hasn't managed to get back past me which he does frequently down the pond.

Edited by Woodburner - 06 Jul 15 at 11:45am

We go on their five, so five minutes, some nights only three get by, other nights a few more, depends on the wind, but we do at least get clear room to manouvre in those crucial stages round the first mark without some badly sailed fast fleeter buggering you about with a starboard call having over stood by miles.

Originally posted by Woodburner We go on their five, so five minutes, some nights only three get by, other nights a few more, depends on the wind, but we do at least get clear room to manouvre in those crucial stages round the first mark without some badly sailed fast fleeter buggering you about with a starboard call having over stood by miles. Last time we let the tail enders start with us, it gives them a chance to see what it's like to sail in clear air, but that can also be a near disaster, if they screw up the gybe and occupy the water you'd worked hard to get the inside line on a competitor.

OK, each to their own.  Sounds like you don't have that large a fast fleet.  I'd imagined great hords of 505s and Fireballs screaming past you on the first reach, or even piling in to the windward mark and sailing over the top of y'all but if it's the odd MR or RS400 then that's OK