D-Zero

Yes, I should revisit a carbon rigged Blaze/Fire I shall put it on my to do list for this coming summers travels.

I think what he is saying is that an early fresh water washed boat will race at the same weight as a new one. The new epoxy would, one would hope, be a bit stiffer. I am sure Mr Blaze will be along shortly to reinforce this, but I believe that early boats and indeed quite a few Blaze X's with either mast and new sails remain very competitive. I recall that polyester boats that have been sea sailed for some time need to be fresh water washed (presumably all the insides) and then dried out otherwise they can weigh heavier. Will be interesting to see if if Hartleys take weight out like they did the Supernova.They could always correct back with correctors in the right place and the boat would be better. 

It's taken those of us at GWSC a while to work out just how good the rig is. Personally I've sailed in 30kts+ (so I'm told by folks who were in a position to measure wind speed on the day) at only 73kg and around 5'10" with the stock "grey" rig. Several of us had initially expected we'd need the smaller rig in a blow but have now concluded its not necessary.

It's not just a 'good' rig, I'd stick my neck right out there and say it's the best s/h rig on the market today and dare anyone to challenge that assertion.

Originally posted by Rupert It's blue, that's all.

Don't know about the blue one, something looked very wrong about it to me, maybe it was the stupid oversized boom, I'm not sure, anyway it's not in the same league as the main rig imv and I haven't tried it so can't speak with any authority whereas I've watched with interest how the Punk rig has morphed into that D Zero rig almost from conception and I'm not that sure it was much of an improvement over that outfit Dan used at the Broxbourne meet to great effect, now that was a masterpiece of a dinghy rig if ever there were such a thing.