Hadron H2

Are there any other clubs apart from burfield where you can race against Fires. Opens? Nationals? Dare I say it, Worlds?

Jeepers ....

I'm sure the questioner can make up their own mind .... they did pose the question after all as to what was available.    As is already rather well known my commercial interests in this arena are coming to an end and I wish Hartley Boats very well for the future.

 But in the interests of addressing your own current queries - 1) Yes (it would be hard to keep 30+ boats are Burghfield without being found out)    2) Yes .... and 3) No ! (well not yet)

Is there anything that offends your sensibilities in a 'regular punter' making the odd contribution
here or are permissions required ?

.... and just  for the record I also rather like the look of Hadron myself already having sailed at Brighlingsea on a couple of occasions when testing was underway ... they are produced in the same factory where all Blazes etc have been produced in recent years so difficult to not know a bit more than most about it at this stage than most ...     


Edited by Cirrus - 14 Feb 16 at 11:43pm

OK, fair points. I shall gracefully back off

The pertinent question that needs asking, is what size is the sail, boats themselves by and large don't determine the size of the helm, it's the rig and more importantly wether the damn thing can be sufficiently depowered.

My logic was always, it didn't really matter, because most of the dinghy things I had observed was that if it's that windy they don't race anyway. Now of late that has proven not to be true, even found myself breaking every rule I set 20 years ago now about not going out in sub 10 degrees in wind exceeding 10 knots for fear of getting those infernal hot hurts that agonise those of us that have to hold the sail up by the boom when racing. But I'm now lucky enough to have a boat with a rig that does depower sufficient that I can get round in fair order in a biting cold nasty squally race, and that's what I now look for in a boat.

That and of course it truly being capable of my hauling it into and out of the water and if it's anything like yesterday with almost the entire boat park underwater in slippy slimy mud, just getting enough traction to haul it around. These are the real world problems, it's one thing handling the bloody things on the water, but hauling their nasty arses around boat parks and up slipways and that was what ruled that H2 out for me when i first set eyes on it, nice enough that it might be in other departments, it looked like a big old monster rig and it was most certainly a monster of a boat for one person to haul about.

Having said all that there are plenty of bigger younger and stronger blokes about, I'd say it will make a good chariot for the disaffected Phantomeer, until such times as the b**tards on the PYAG take a dislike to it.

Edited by iGRF - 15 Feb 16 at 10:23am

It used to be possible to embed a you tube video, but I can't remember exactly the code.. Any way here's that video of the launch, big fat head sail puts me off it has to be said but other than that, it looks a super boat.



So that big gap is where the video should be, try cllcking the blue link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdqOodLTg5M

Edit, got it sorted..


Edited by iGRF - 15 Feb 16 at 12:09pm