view on topaz?

spice are giant buzz! there good fun.

lots of different types of "topaz":

topaz taz: hull: like a topaz but small, rig: optional oppi style or pico style very slow

topaz sailing system:hull:original topaz rig:uon one pico like sail/uno plus that and a tiny jib, uno race one sail fully battened/race plus that with reasonabe jib/race x that (with or without the jib) with a spinni, duo stayed mast main and jib trap, trez: duo with spinni

magno: Hull: magno rig: club or sport: two or three sails

omega: magno but biggar!

Originally posted by hydrographer20 yeah a 29er is good and i have nmebver even heard of a spice is it any gd|?

Vaguely a Buzz with an ISO rig and an extra string! Not a major financial success for Topper. They do seem to be still marketing them, but then Topper are still listing the Boss on their website.

It would be hard to regard the boat as being design wise the equal of a 29er. Like all the early Topper boats it suffers from being based on pre Amalgamation I14 design a a time when the I14 was a little less than state of the art in world wide terms.

Yea i think so too I ve got an ISO and its great fun dont get me wrong, but ive aslo sailed 29ers and they are certainly more skiffy!!

Edited by Andy949

No they should not!!  If topper start making 'cool' boats there will be even more new classes to sperad a not particularly huge sailing community between.  You are better off picking a better boat from someone else, that way there will be more poeple for you and everyone else to sail against.  Enough with the new boats, lets just fix the mistakes with the ones we have and start enjoying them!