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    Posted: 09 Jan 07 at 5:59pm

Originally posted by Norbert

An earlier post was regarding weight of the athletes, well apparently and according to the 29erxx web site 300 lbs seems the optimum or if you insist on using third world mexican, 136 kilos, so falling neatly into ISAF's range of 120 -140 kilos


Do many 3rd world mexicans sail? I'm still trying to puzzle out what word should have been there...Lexicon, possibly?
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Originally posted by Rupert

Originally posted by Norbert

An earlier post was regarding weight of the athletes, well apparently and according to the 29erxx web site 300 lbs seems the optimum or if you insist on using third world mexican, 136 kilos, so falling neatly into ISAF's range of 120 -140 kilos


Do many 3rd world mexicans sail? I'm still trying to puzzle out what word should have been there...Lexicon, possibly?

I suspect it is some odd metric 'v' imerial joke/comment ... I don't get it either ...
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I suspect it is some odd metric 'v' imerial joke/comment ... I don't get it either ...


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The people i've spoken to some very good sailors. Say that it has a very nose down atitude. Much more so than the 29er. Which I would say is not ideal. They have tried to correct it which looks like a bodge with some carbon tube, which apparently doesn't make much difference. The general outlook was that it was too twitchy and would rather sail a 49er.
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I know quite a number of people who've sailed the 29erXX - we had one where I was working - and most people loved it. We had some quite big extension bars (old windsurf masts!) out the back which most people did think helped. All personal preference I guess but I'd heard mainly positive comments.
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