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Steve411 ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 09 Sep 08 Location: Cheddar, Somerset, England Online Status: Offline Posts: 705 |
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I think he doth protest too much. Massive ego, what can I say
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L123456 ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 30 Apr 12 Online Status: Offline Posts: 500 |
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Are you standing by that statement? |
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i tick ![]() Groupie ![]() Joined: 15 Jul 13 Location: Tunstead Milton Online Status: Offline Posts: 93 |
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I think L123456 should change his forum name to 'Mr Jollyboy'............
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alstorer ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 02 Aug 07 Location: Cambridge Online Status: Offline Posts: 2899 |
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For Real? |
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yellowwelly ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 24 May 13 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2003 |
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Bora Gulari and his mrs went sailing and foiled- at a 130kg combo, allegedly, according to sailing anarchy.
96kg is moth territory in SW Australia, jus not on sh*tty ponds in the Home Counties and slightly further afield. |
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L123456 ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 30 Apr 12 Online Status: Offline Posts: 500 |
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Eh? The guy makes a sweeping insult to the owners of the worlds most popular dinghy any you don't expect any comment? Anyway to address the question I doubt many of these will sell. Laser sailors enjoy the nip and tuck of close class racing, if I wanted to foil I'd buy a Moth.
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Chris 249 ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 10 May 04 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2041 |
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Yep, I'm with L123456 here.
Our mate said that in his experience, Laser sailors are unimaginative. The Laser guys from my old club alone have got on the podium with their own designs in development-class world titles, sailed some leading-edge high performance designs (18s, foiler Moths, etc), do other sports to high level, and are often less conservative in their lifestyle than those in many other classes. Part of the reason they sail Lasers at club level is to same time for their other interests. I still have not met another sport that attacks its own like sailing does. Sad, really, and surely a part of the reason that it is not growing. Who would want to join a sport where either those who do the most popular discipline are unimaginative, or cop insults? |
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Chris 249 ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 10 May 04 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2041 |
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That is a lot of cash and sort of puts the idea of any people's foiler in perspective. Given that Wardie is a metals engineer, Phil Stevo is an engineer and great at low-cost solutions, and the Laser guys know lots about production boats, it's hard to see someone making a much cheaper set of foils. It did look like fun, in the right situation, but that's about the same price as buying an older foiling Moth and I'll pass. I say that knowing that I'm not in the target audience as if I want to sail something more extreme than a Laser, I'll drag out a board, cat, etc and therefore the increase in speed is not something that really does it for me. I've got various boats and trailers in various shops being worked on so haven't sailed for a month. We had a few drinks at the yachty bar with the in-laws yesterday watching the kids train on Lasers in light winds. Oh, how I was itching to get out there and throw that beautiful little boat around like they were.
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Iain C ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 16 Mar 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1113 |
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Seems pretty pointless to me. OK, so it works, but TBH you could get anything to fly if you wanted to. I can't see that it would ever be particularly fast or get round a corner on the foils, so what's the point? You could spend your £3500 on that Laser kit, and fly around fairly slowly with a whole host of things that limit the performance, like a great big heavy hull, an unstayed mast and a compromised wand system, or just go and buy an older Moth and do it properly and have an infinitely more rewarding sailing experience. You soon get used to the height and the speed, much of the thrill of Moth sailing comes from the acceleration and responsiveness, something that the Laser will never deliver.
Granted, the Moth class now seems to be at the upper end of budget, plus you need to basically sail full time to be in with a hope of being anywhere near the top, but pretty much anyone can be up and foiling in a few hours. Agreed, if the Laser foil kit was a grand then happy days, but it needs to be significantly under older foiling Moth territory to be workable. Erm, RS600FF...remember those?
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robin34024 ![]() Posting king ![]() ![]() Joined: 03 Jan 12 Location: Lincoln Online Status: Offline Posts: 116 |
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I think a lot of people are missing the point that this is the first cheap and realistic foiler... sure it may not be as quick or refined as a moth but it also doesn't cost £7000, and any club sailor can just pay the £1000 or whatever and stick it on their old laser!
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