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Originally posted by Rupert Testing? Getting it right? Deciding if there was a market at all? Unlike boards, there is expected to be longevity in the life of a dinghy class, not a new model brought out the following year, like in windsurfing, so a couple of extra months development are worthwhile to get a product that people want to buy, and actually enjoy using.

Testing? Getting it right? That's one or two weeks, what happened to the ten months.

Edited by G.R.F. - 06 Dec 10 at 8:51pm

Too many boats are rushed to market and not fully tested or developed. You should probably take another 6 months after first boats are produced sailing and sailing, changing and changing back, getting a few more opinions. I suspect it takes at least two years to resolve a boat completely and sort out consistent manufacture. Far better to make sure it absolutely meets its brief before selling to the public.

Originally posted by blaze720 Some very early Tasars had amounts of Kevlar but it proved very difficult in production and was later dropped.  The hulls are or at least should all be polyester ! (perhaps there is the odd 'bandit' - who knows ? ;-)

I stand corrected: http://www.tasar.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&cid=2&Itemid=23

Interestingly there is some contradiction re print-through in the above link vs. the 49er one I posted earlier.

Apologies for hijacking the thread, I wasn't trying to make a point re material choice, just posting some info.

I understand people's points about max beam, but (a) fairing it into a curve could be done (if desired) with negligible loss of righting moment, and (b) if more righting moment is faster and speed is everything then you should be suggesting increasing the beam!

Mike

Originally posted by MikeBz I understand people's points about max beam, but (a) fairing it into a curve could be done (if desired) with negligible loss of righting moment, and (b) if more righting moment is faster and speed is everything then you should be suggesting increasing the beam! Mike

Having found towing a Merlin quite stressful, not to mention the comedy of getting one into a standard garage door, I feel the 2 metre beam of the RS400 is about optimum!