New RS700

ok im only going on what ive been told here! now i know! im gonna get to grips with it first and im sure I'll work it out resonably quickly.  Just gonna be quite hard co-ordinating this with gybing the kite at the same time!  I think it may be a case of it being harder to imagine doing it than it is when the sheets are in your hands in real life.  But I may have a lot of learning to do by the sounds of things! Boats like the laser rely quite a lot on muscle memory because most tacks are the same, just have to process what the boat is telling you that it wants and then do it, all part of learning the personality of the boat i suppose! I can imagine the 700 being more about thinking on your feet and trying to process all the feedback as fast as possible while trying to keep the wings out of the water!

Right got the boat, it came with intermediate bars so i went to take them off, getting the racks  off is no easy task because the plastic bearings cannot pass each other. once this was sorted i went to unscrew the inside bearings but the screw on one of them was rotted and the head was shredded so I couldnt undo it. Any tips on how to get this out?

David

yeah i love trapezing just havent done it for a while! i have sailed a lot of fast boats, maybe not this fast, but 29ers etc and know how they can bite!  will take a bit of getting used to but i think i will get the hang of it, and getting wet teaches you more than anything i think! If you dont know when its gonna tip you in then you will never be able to push it as hard as you want to... Interesting idea about going 2 up though, I dont think there are any other sailors that could do that at warsash, im probably the most likely candidate lol most of them are wayfarer sailors and boring boats like that   There is one other 7 but he picked it up the day before i did haha so that wont help me apart from perhaps take the spotlight off me so i can make a splash in peace

I just cant wait to go sailing!

You'll have to change your name now then, eh?