D-Zero

Originally posted by Lumpster Why an A7 for the sea? Thought  dzero meant to be good in waves because of the wave piercing bow if a bit wetter.

No, they have two or three drawbacks on the sea, they've got this little sticky up bit that's a self baler that will get destroyed when beaching (the main reason I didn't end up with one), they've got nothing to get hold of when you want to help someone in and onto the trailer, and they have a mining tendency in waves.

Plus there's a guy at our club giving quite a good account of himself in an A7 often beating me, and he's got a mate in an A9 that came past me the other night like i was stood still, (but stacked it later on the run)but when the winds up a bit doesn't matter wether I'm wiring the Farr, or semi wiring my Fireblade thing he's all over me like a bad rash. Only time I can nail him is in marginal planing and waves and only with Herculean kinetic effort and using the waves to full effect, but once he clocks what to do, I'll be history.

Edited by iGRF - 04 Sep 21 at 6:47pm

Originally posted by iGRF Originally posted by Lumpster Why an A7 for the sea? Thought  dzero meant to be good in waves because of the wave piercing bow if a bit wetter.  No, they have two or three drawbacks on the sea, they've got this little sticky up bit that's a self baler that will get destroyed when beaching (the main reason I didn't end up with one), they've got nothing to get hold of when you want to help someone in and onto the trailer, and they have a mining tendency in waves. Plus there's a guy at our club giving quite a good account of himself in an A7 often beating me, and he's got a mate in an A9 that came past me the other night like i was stood still, (but stacked it later on the run)but when the winds up a bit doesn't matter wether I'm wiring the Farr, or semi wiring my Fireblade thing he's all over me like a bad rash. Only time I can nail him is in marginal planing and waves and only with Herculean kinetic effort and using the waves to full effect, but once he clocks what to do, I'll be history.

Well to be fair Shoreham and the beaches on that stretch of the coast are a lot kinder than ours, they do at least get sand, we have hard shingle which gets nastier the lower the tide. Suffice to say everybody at that demo however long ago it was thought exactly the same and it's why not one evr came here yet there are three or four Aeros which is not a natural ratio, I would have thought there would at least be one or two Zeros to every four or five Aeros at any given club with reasonable water access, it's still my view the Zero is much the better boat and nicer to sail, just not off our beach.

Originally posted by Woodman Aero’s can pick up dings so I’m not sure I would buy a new one to sail onto a shore dump on shingle! Min you hauling up through that stuff asks for a light boat🥵

Edited by Grumpycat - 21 Sep 21 at 7:34pm