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iGRF
Really should get out more Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6496 |
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Topic: D-Zero Posted: 04 Sep 21 at 6:46pm |
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No, they have two or three drawbacks on the sea, they've got this little sticky up bit that's a self baler that will get destroyed when beaching (the main reason I didn't end up with one), they've got nothing to get hold of when you want to help someone in and onto the trailer, and they have a mining tendency in waves. Plus there's a guy at our club giving quite a good account of himself in an A7 often beating me, and he's got a mate in an A9 that came past me the other night like i was stood still, (but stacked it later on the run)but when the winds up a bit doesn't matter wether I'm wiring the Farr, or semi wiring my Fireblade thing he's all over me like a bad rash. Only time I can nail him is in marginal planing and waves and only with Herculean kinetic effort and using the waves to full effect, but once he clocks what to do, I'll be history. Edited by iGRF - 04 Sep 21 at 6:47pm |
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Woodman
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04 Sep 21 at 7:18pm | |
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Woodman
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Sep 21 at 2:55pm | |
Is the baler a real problem. Looks pretty small and for those non shore dumpers we use trailers😁. Is it really nosy on the sea or does it just look like it? They seem to have plenty of events on the sea and Shoreham seems home to some.
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iGRF
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Sep 21 at 4:26pm | |
Probably not, they were just my thoughts 7 years ago and a lot of water has passed under the bridge since then, I have read accounts of them not being the kindest boat downhill in waves, but then so are lots of others and I dare say, once my butt gets sat in an Aero, a lot of other issues will become apparent over the course of time. One thing I have learned in my time in dinghy world, I'm more often wrong about things than right. |
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eric_c
Far too distracted from work Joined: 21 Jan 18 Online Status: Offline Posts: 382 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Sep 21 at 5:46pm | |
You were right about "they've got nothing to get hold of when you want to help someone in and onto the trailer" it's like wrestling with a very large (but light) bar of soap while staggering in the surf. A bit too Jeux Sans Frontiers.
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jeffers
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 20 Sep 21 at 8:38pm | |
Double figures at Shoreham I believe and no reports of the self bailer bulge on the D-Zero being damaged during launch or recovery anywhere to my knowledge.
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iGRF
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 21 Sep 21 at 3:11pm | |
Well to be fair Shoreham and the beaches on that stretch of the coast are a lot kinder than ours, they do at least get sand, we have hard shingle which gets nastier the lower the tide. Suffice to say everybody at that demo however long ago it was thought exactly the same and it's why not one evr came here yet there are three or four Aeros which is not a natural ratio, I would have thought there would at least be one or two Zeros to every four or five Aeros at any given club with reasonable water access, it's still my view the Zero is much the better boat and nicer to sail, just not off our beach.
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Woodman
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 21 Sep 21 at 3:45pm | |
Aero’s can pick up dings so I’m not sure I would buy a new one to sail onto a shore dump on shingle! Min you hauling up through that stuff asks for a light boat🥵
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Grumpycat
Far too distracted from work Joined: 29 Sep 20 Online Status: Offline Posts: 497 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 21 Sep 21 at 7:24pm | |
That’s not a problem for GRF . He has the perfect technique for hauling boats across a shingle beach, we have all seen the pics of him and the rs100 lol lol Seriously though , all power to him and everyone else that sails on the sea off a shingle beach. It’s not for me , I am a total pond monkey .
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iGRF
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 21 Sep 21 at 7:48pm | |
And that's pond pussy, don't insult northern monkeys, some of them sail on the sea. Edited by iGRF - 21 Sep 21 at 7:50pm |
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