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    Posted: 27 Apr 11 at 6:02pm
how tall are all you 95 to 110kg guys ? - I am starting to feel very small at 75kg and 170cm, with my 8.4
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Originally posted by paolochilds

That is what he claimed before sailing. I believe him, he is shorter than all of us!

Yeah it was very bad of Dad to make you go for a swim  LOL

GRF, I am de-powering in 8kts, so surely you would be more efficient in an 8.4 with less drag and de-powering less?? When I sailed at QM I thought the 8.4 was fine. in the light and breeze I was just as quick. Just those marginal hiking, where my beer belly slowed me down too much!! 



Well in truth if it was 8 knots at the start I'd use the 8.4 (unless i thought the wind was going to drop) it's fin in 8 knots, a nice set up and works O.K. when it's not fine is 5 knots and under, when it gets out pointed by Lasers, Supernovas and not necessarily better helms than I.

Whereas with the 10.2 I can hold onto the coat tails of the 5 oh for much of the race if I don't screw up and the course favours the kite.
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You do make the RS100 sound like an exciting boat.  Sounds like you spend more time choosing the rig then you do sailing, then have no hope if you make the wrong choice.
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It's an exciting boat well enough and frankly nice to have the choice, better than being stuck with just one rig, what is irksome is that the handicap for both rigs is the same when they patently are very different boats in the sort of wind that handicaps tends to apply in.
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Originally posted by asterix

how tall are all you 95 to 110kg guys ? - I am starting to feel very small at 75kg and 170cm, with my 8.4
 
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Well Grahame,
We had our first Wednesday of the summer last night and it was around about 6 to 8 knots of wind. For me I felt it was perfect conditions for me with a nice big downwind leg. Upwind the 8.4 was lovely. Believe it or not I felt at about max power and just on the border of having to calm it down a little!!
Anyway managed to beat the 200's on my new handicap which was my main target. Ian in the mps was off in the distance on his own. For me that was probably the ideal competitive conditions for me. Any windier and I start to struggle competitively up hill.
See results below;

http://www.eastmore.biz/cgi-bin/YachtReport2001.pl?file=dbsc%2Fdbsc_wed1_11.csv&type=Result&class=ASYM&race=27-Apr&x=87&y=17

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I just don't have the time or energy to choose rigs when I go sailing so I am using the boat as a one rig boat. I think alot of people may end up doing this????
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well I am still a one rig guy
 
I find that the amount of kicker, cunningham and rake make a hugh difference to whether I get overpowered
 
with 3 holes and 3 rake if you ease the kicker and cunningham off and leave a lot of outhaul loose (sail 4-6 inches off boom) you can be fully hiked in 8 knts - and if you leave the settings like this it can get 'interesting' if the wind increases.   I found that when the wind increased to ~15 -16 knts I spent more time in the water than on it with the settings like this - but then later on in those wind conditions with loads more kicker and cunningham and 4 and 4, everything became easily controllable again.  The hard part (well for me one of the hard parts) is getting the adjustments right on the water as the wind changes
 


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Haroosh, 
Good work. All of us down at Hayling just stick with one rig, I think it is what most people are doing!
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That would be because we're all over 90kg... (and, apart from the relatively hobbit-sized nick, all over 6ft)

Well I reckon the lead f15 will have got me in the end but apart from that it was pretty damned good last night. The asy vortex got away a bit but then so it should in 15kts and a bit of chop upwind. Again the 100 trucked past the 400 downwind but I reckon I needed to foot off more on the first beat when it was strong wind against tide.

Do they not have tides in Hythe? 5kts would be unsailable at HISC.
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