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i have a question about weight belts,
can sailing ones be purchased?!?
my crew and i are very under weight for our 505 and need a little artifical weight?
nick

Much easier to use kicker and Cunningham anyway.  This underweight thing is so often made by the less experienced.  Many high performance boats are overpowered from force 3 up, if you are light you just start flattening that main at a lower wind speed.  The only time weight is an advantage is when you are on a tight 3 sail reach, the rest of the time its a problem.  I would say however that if you are less than about 160kg combined you would do better in a boat a little less powerful than a 5oh, try a 470.  Better still try a boat with weight equalisation like a 4000.

Originally posted by carshalton fc i thought that most 14's had the aft main and twins!!  but looks like a am wrong!!

Mine as. As soon as I tried I've adopted it !

It can only be boring in low winds

Originally posted by carshalton fc i thought that most 14's had the aft main and twins!!  but looks like a am wrong!!

well quite a few do, but the trend is switchin the way ive gone slightly, twins and centre of the boom sheetin that runs to the back, just like a 49er/18fter, much better for freedom of movement in the boat!! dunno if thats wot u meant but thats wot we have set up

Sorry, but Max speeds are not usually accurate !

I've seen Max of 24 kts on my GPS, but the plots were only showing around 18kts for any given distance.  We are running a ad-hoc competition on Catsasilor.com and the rules are that you must have a plot (and so average speed) over at least 10 seconds to qualify.