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    Posted: 22 Jan 17 at 7:09pm
Originally posted by JVSAIL


Originally posted by blueboy


Reviled. As bad as that?

Well yeah actually! Forget my spelling, in my opinion it is a pointless venture (no pun intended). Why do we need something in-between a Quba and an Aero?
 


I haven't seen pics, only read the text on the RS website, but a rotomoulded Aero for beginners, sailing schools and club ownership sounds like a reasonable idea, especially if they've managed a reasonable weight/stiffness balance.

http://www.rssailing.com/en/explore/rs-neo
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It's a foot and a half shorter and nearly twice the weight of the Aero, but that confers stability (and it's a bit wider, and reading between the lines probably quite a lot wider on the WL, still more stability). Carbon spars too, that looks expensive but it's under £4k. I'd say it was more like a scaled up Tera actually. Should do well with your projected audience Jim Thumbs Up

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That looks like the Quba.
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Not giving much away are they?
Perhaps the most interesting point is that RS have a German partner, Onsail De.
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The notes say that it is based on a quba hull... Just a rig upgrade basically.
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It says it's a standard Quba hull but Neo could be built in "polypropylene/poluethelene mix for extra strength" (scan through the pics in the gallery). The foredeck, (so presumably the mast step too) is easily replaceable so it might be that a Quba hull could be upgraded?
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Seems strange the the boat on the stand has a completely different cut of sail to the marketing blurb on their website.




Edited by jeffers - 23 Jan 17 at 1:40pm
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The creases in that sail!
Is that the best it can do?
Mr North ought to be having words with whoever let it look like that on the stand.
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Ah well, the sail on your stand only looks as good as the last person who was playing with the strings...
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