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    Posted: 21 Feb 17 at 6:07pm
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Originally posted by mothlee

Glad Elaine and I decided to go this year if it could be the last one. Havnt been since the British moths stopped going. Will do my normal round of looking at streakers/lightning/supernovas/ comets/d zeros etc trying to decide what to buy but in the end just stay sailing the laser. Might even try and see Paul J and try and explain why I don't really like open transom boats. 😃

If you are there Sunday pop by. I will be on or around the stand most of the day. if not Jon will be.


We are going on the Saturday I am afraid. Catch you at hunts sometime. 😊
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Originally posted by iGRF

 What I really need is a light build Contender 'Fire' ;-)

There's very few dinghies as elegant-looking as a Contender  Clap  And those are generally old designs - 470, FF, FD, IC, Oppie [joke!]. Or is that just me showing my age?! 
Whether it would go as well, or look 'right', with a smaller rig is harder to judge.... but nice idea...
(That said - am looking forward to delivery of my Fire sail....!)



Edited by ColH - 21 Feb 17 at 6:32pm
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The Canoes will be back this time, and the latest boats are quite spectacular beasts. Well worth seeing, he said, with a touch of bias...



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Are you sure you should be posting that before the watershed?
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Originally posted by iGRF

Originally posted by turnturtle

The National Watersports Festival is moving to Rutland


Well that's that dead and buried, nothing good comes out of Rutland, except the road home.


Agreed - I couldn't make last year due to a family wedding, seeing this year's is an inland jobby, I hadn't even considered it.
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Originally posted by ColH



Originally posted by iGRF

 What I really need is a light build Contender 'Fire' ;-)

There's very few dinghies as elegant-looking as a Contender  Clap  And those are generally old designs - 470, FF, FD, IC, Oppie [joke!]. Or is that just me showing my age?! 
Whether it would go as well, or look 'right', with a smaller rig is harder to judge.... but nice idea...
(That said - am looking forward to delivery of my Fire sail....!)



Well as a rule of thumb, I'm finding the optimum sail size one can handle across a broad range of conditions is ones weight in kilos over 10 in sq mtrs, given the volume of the boat is at least double that weight in litres, which most dinghys are. Ad a trapeze to that and the size increases by at least twenty five percent. So 70 kg over 10 = 7sq mtrs, plus 1.25 x 7 = 8.75 which is a guideline to the sort of sail size my weight should be capable of supporting at the top end with a trapeze providing the boat didn't weigh any more than me all up.

I'm not sure what size that Fire rig is, but the Blaze is a similar Lump to the Contender and a well sailed Blaze can match a Contender in marginal conditions, not so when they're fully wired, but we're talking averages here, so I think in a perfect world a redesigned smaller rig could work for lightweights on a Contender just as it does on the Blaze certainly when the breeze is up.

Edited by iGRF - 22 Feb 17 at 10:16am
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Originally posted by JimC

The Canoes will be back this time, and the latest boats are quite spectacular beasts. Well worth seeing, he said, with a touch of bias...



Photo (c) http://www.c12performanceboats.co.uk/


Well that certainly looks worth going to have a look at and being ignored by somebody with a self satisfied smirk with a thought bubble above his head which says 'You wouldn't get it even if I tried to explain to you sonny so move on'.

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I had a great chat to the IC folks last year, and look forward to popping by again.
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Best not to confuse indifference with sympathy.. ;-)
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Originally posted by JimC

The Canoes will be back this time, and the latest boats are quite spectacular beasts. Well worth seeing, he said, with a touch of bias...



Photo (c) http://www.c12performanceboats.co.uk/

Looks like Vlad Murnikov has been designing canoes!

MX-Next anyone? Funny how a canoe is cool and a Russian designer is not. 
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