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blueboy ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 27 Aug 10 Online Status: Offline Posts: 512 |
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5 foot 10 and sail an Aero. I can't say I relate to other comments about spending a lot of time on your knees. For starters I don't know how you'd have the necessary fast mobility that way. Comfortable to hike, no but I don't think comfort and hiking go much together. Tuning the hiking strap length is important, I initially set mine up with far too much slack.
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Sailed an Aero for 18 months. For this type of boat of modern low dinghy its got a very very good hiking position. Dead downwind there is some kneeling, but there are very few unarigs that don't have some kneeling and often more than an aero. Sure you kneel less in a laser, but I would challenge anyone who sailed one for a bit to step back into a laser and think it wasnt from the dark ages. I sailed lasers for years and fully accept that you can race them in far more places than an Aero and probably always will. However, the aero is a better boat in everyway from a dynamic sailing point of view.
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zeon ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() Joined: 20 Aug 16 Online Status: Offline Posts: 316 |
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I agree with you totally, Simon. The problem is I sail at one of those ' more places' that you mentioned.
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JimC ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 17 May 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Online Posts: 6662 |
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Thirty months ago (is it 30 months?) everyone did. |
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Peter Barton ![]() Posting king ![]() ![]() Joined: 10 Oct 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 129 |
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It is 26 months and 157 UK locations ago since 1001 Jim
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zeon ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() Joined: 20 Aug 16 Online Status: Offline Posts: 316 |
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Congrats on the success for the boat. It's a great boat and the marketing has been excellent. I had a great day testing it at chelmarsh. ![]() Edited by zeon - 29 Aug 16 at 8:18pm |
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Rupert ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 11 Aug 04 Location: Whitefriars sc Online Status: Offline Posts: 8956 |
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Liked the Zero to sail. Well sorted sail which looks great. Slightly strange when you sit in the boat and you see the bow narrowing down so quickly. Makes the boat seem shorter than it really is. Upwind, bow kissing the water, all powered up was perching hard in fairly light winds. Certainly a boat that will reward fitness, but felt nice. Bear away and the acceleration is wonderful. Go too far off the wind and it gets a little dull, but I'm sure in company the tactics would have kept me amused, same as any boat.
What didn't I like? Oddly, not sure I liked the rounded decks as much as the tanks with a corner taken off approach. The dagger rudder had to be raised and lowered with exactitude, which was tricky at times. And I must admit, the cockpit from the inside looks a little boring compared to the hull from the outside. I enjoyed my sails, and came in grinning, but Rupertson would happily have spend all day out there sailing the boat, as would the others who too her out for a play, I think. Certainly feels more like a race boat than the Aero. But maybe that is the Aero's appeal, as it is with the Laser. The Aero you might stuff on the roofrack and use like you might a SUP or Sit on Top at the beach, and then go to an open the next weekend. But the Zero feels like a circuit boat, to be pampered. Both good things, but surprisingly different, like comparing a 200 and a 2000. Big thanks to Jeffers for allowing us to go play with his pride a joy. |
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RS400atC ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 04 Dec 08 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3011 |
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Must be nearly time for the next Great New Singlehander? |
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jeffers ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 29 Mar 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 3048 |
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No problem at all, you even managed to keep the pitchforks out of sight!
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turnturtle ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 05 Dec 14 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2538 |
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almost certainly - isn't time we all started foiling and wearing yellow and black striped t-shirts to show our tribalism to the Waszp?
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