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    Posted: 15 May 06 at 10:49am
Hee hee for the 1st time im actually agreeing with a cherub sailor  Im agreed y not just get a proper boat?
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Originally posted by JimC

Originally posted by Blobby

Originally posted by JimC

to have a boat that hardly needs one.
But that means it would still be slightly better with one...


Almost any boat at current state of the art would get down a run faster with a big asymettric - even, I imagine, a foiler Moth. The new wave canoes will be no different. But that doesn't necessarily mean that stuffing a kite one would make them more enjoyable boats to own and race. A spinnaker less boat that never the less is slippery enough to sail hot angles is a lot more versatile for instance. which is great if your club does more complex courses than windward/leewards.
I would still opt to combine the two - but that is just my opinion.
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Originally posted by BBSCFaithfull

Hee hee for the 1st time im actually agreeing with a cherub sailor  Im agreed y not just get a proper boat?

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Originally posted by sam knight

either;

put a decent rig on a topper

or

make a topper pointy at the front(although you could say thats a laser i suppose)

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Originally posted by mike ellis3

sod it lets go the whole hog, an all carbon feva.


To play Devils advocate amongst all those who have flamed this, the Feva does like like quite a sweet little hull shape at a glance, nicer than a lot of recent boats. So if you were to build a boat that shape with say a 30kg carbon hull and a big kite, wouldn't it be rather entertaining for a couple of yougsters of say around 40kg each?

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40kg? doh. ill just need to put an even bigger rig on it im 70kg.

 

idea: sail it single handed.
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id like a carbon boom for the 600, the sail areas definitly enough though.
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Originally posted by feva_sailor

ive seen a great oneat my club of a tornado with a 30sqm furling kite.they put it up and the mast snapped and they pitchpoled

Really where abouts is that id be very interested in seeing it seen as i sail a f18 at the same club as you and havnt seen it point it out next time im down.

Wouldnt mind trying a 9er kite on an f18 though just to go that bit deeper bound to end up in disaster but always fun.

 

 
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Originally posted by tack'ho

Originally posted by sam knight

either;

put a decent rig on a topper

or

make a topper pointy at the front(although you could say thats a laser i suppose)

Today i will be your fairy godmother, and make your wish come true...a little swish of my magic wand and kazaarrr......BYTE CII

A few years ago i mate of mine tried to put a pico jib 405 kite on a topper with a trapeze dont know how he attached it but the kite packed in to a plastic bag by the centreboard but the mast broke on its maiden voyage!

 
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not suprising realy. what happened to the hull?
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