RS 600 where now?

Nice one Rushy. I knew of a 600, well, most of it, lost back in the brambles and long grass. One of the things we looked at was could the hull be modded to create a chine for the last 5 or 6 feet of the hull. You've also done the Blaze thing, so you probably know that the boat was a bad tempered **** with the original rig. They Mike Lyons took it on, sorted the rig and made the boat a sweet single hander. I thought a similar trick might well make the 650/b13 a far nicer boat.... sadly someone came along and claimed the bits before we could gets started. But I like what you've done so far.....


Edited by Dougaldog - 10 Dec 15 at 10:38pm

The trapeze has gone,hadn't thought about chines, I'll see how it sails,maybe next winters protect. The Blaze CA weren't interested in adding a spinnaker for fear of diluting the class, then came the epoxy version, mk2,mk3,Halo and now the Fire, I would think a lightweight, ie no corrector weights and a descent sized kite would have blown the d1 and the 100 into the weeds, and sold by the bucket load. Missed opportunity?

Rushy

Thr Mk2 Blaze came out nearly 16 years ago btw ! and after that just a couple of minor deck moulding changes. When was your spinnaker experiment ?!

You were not the only one to fit out a Blaze with spinnaker a few years back.  We held back ourselves when the 'pre-marketing' for 100 and D1 got going and commercially this was very fortunate with hindsight.  There was of course market share available for a Blaze derivative along the lines you describe but it would have been severely squeezed by the new entrants named above .. even if it was technically (and we would argue this of course cos it was true ... superior ;-).  Anyway we were not convinced that the potential was as attractive as some suggested especially with the available resources of a smaller company.   It could have been a 'missed opportunity' we know BUT it was as likely to have been a financial 'crater' we were rather fortunate to sidestep.  There were some additional specific commerical reasons related to Icon development and potential collaborations that obviously meant we could not do it at the time. 

You should point people to the youtube 'Blaze-mit-spinnaker' video as well .... We kept nothing !  I do think that (technically) it very possible to make a true 'bench-mark' hiking 2-sail boat today but I'm happy to leave that now to a someone with a considerably deeper pocket.

Mike  (Cirrus)




Edited by Cirrus - 11 Dec 15 at 6:12pm

Just found this ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1m2LJhVi-8