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jeffers ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 29 Mar 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 3048 |
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Upwind it certainly is faster than a Laser (so by extension should be the same against a Byte). Reaching the same. The only point of sail I found that a Laser could stay with the D-0 is dead downwind.
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iiitick ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() Joined: 04 Jun 14 Location: gb Online Status: Offline Posts: 478 |
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Well I was an eye witness and the D Zero was faster or would have been if the young man sailing it had more experience in the boat. The problem was that he was racing Bytes during their Nationals and obstructed the leading boats, not his fault, he joins a race...so he races. The fact that he was mixing it with the leading boats must mean something.
I had not seen a D Zero before and I was very impressed, so modern and neat with clever ideas.
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iiitick ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() Joined: 04 Jun 14 Location: gb Online Status: Offline Posts: 478 |
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tgruitt ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 02 Dec 04 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2479 |
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No, it looks awful in that pic! |
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Needs to sail more...
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Washy71 ![]() Groupie ![]() Joined: 01 Jul 14 Online Status: Offline Posts: 56 |
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Good job its stunning in the flesh then, eh?! ![]() |
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rodney ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 26 Feb 09 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 915 |
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Own up someone! Who is it who took a chainsaw to our D-Zero? Since this picture was posted I have been looking for an angle that matches and just can't. Must be an optical illusion ![]() |
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Rodney Cobb
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Daniel Holman ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 17 Nov 08 Online Status: Offline Posts: 997 |
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Each to their own but I really like it from that angle. You might think that I would say that, but I am pretty much sick of the sight of it most of the time ![]() |
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Rupert ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 11 Aug 04 Location: Whitefriars sc Online Status: Offline Posts: 8956 |
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It does look like it is about 8 feet long in that shot, doesn't it?
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Null ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 11 May 14 Online Status: Offline Posts: 745 |
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I wouldn't of drawn any conclusions on speed from that day! 1 young lad sailing a boat for the first time against the best byte fleet had to offer. Even so he was noticeably quicker and rightly it should be! Dan and I were going to take the boats out but we had a flurry of takers, the boats were there to be sailed by others and my massively inflated ego would never take a kicking from Holman again.
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kneewrecker ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 09 Apr 14 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1586 |
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It looks a bit Lego in that Daniel, fortunately you can always post that one time shot of Graeme smiling in a sail boat and balance shall be restored to The Force.
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