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    Posted: 29 Sep 14 at 11:03am
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Perhaps you could try these things called trapezes ... they are quite well proven my thousands of people and all you need is half reasonable motor skills; can be achieved with very limited fitness.


Yes but my last attempt (MPS) proved fruitless, so what would you recommend? Contender? They weigh a ton and have massive sails for my 67 kgs. Farr 3.7? I wouldn't sail a board less than 3.9, so that's hardly going to cut it. Not much choice in single handed trapeze boats that are manageable, don't even talk about RS600's

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Originally posted by 2547


Perhaps you could try these things called trapezes ... they are quite well proven my thousands of people and all you need is half reasonable motor skills; can be achieved with very limited fitness.


Yes but my last attempt (MPS) proved fruitless, so what would you recommend? Contender? They weigh a ton and have massive sails for my 67 kgs. Farr 3.7? I wouldn't sail a board less than 3.9, so that's hardly going to cut it. Not much choice in single handed trapeze boats that are manageable, don't even talk about RS600's





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If I sailed at a sea venue then it would be hard to look past the Contender right now....  

it would be worth a cal to P&B though first, ask Ben McGrane about that high cut clew sail.  I don't like the thought of getting under that boom- but to be fair, I haven't sailed one since 1996, so it's a bit difficult to remember how much of an issue it would be.  


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Originally posted by kneewrecker

If I sailed at a sea venue then it would be hard to look past the Contender right now....  

it would be worth a cal to P&B though first, ask Ben McGrane about that high cut clew sail.  I don't like the thought of getting under that boom- but to be fair, I haven't sailed one since 1996, so it's a bit difficult to remember how much of an issue it would be.  

67kgs is never gonna make a Contender viable ...
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cut down sail?  I would have thought it 'could' work for light-to-moderate wind sailing.  Graeme is at least sensible enough to know when dinghy sailors start talking about testing their 'heavy air technique' it's time to reach for a board or kite....   
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