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Sam.Spoons
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Topic: OK.. Let's have it, what is the most difficult .. Posted: 11 Sep 20 at 9:20am |
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The point being 'most difficult' (aka 'hardest' ) which the RS300 is only if there is nothing else that is more difficult. I guess there are people who find Lowrider Moths and RS300s easy to sail but which one is easiest (or, if you prefer hardest or most difficult)?
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GarethT
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 11 Sep 20 at 9:47am | |
The only boat I've tried that I would say was really difficult to sail (as opposed to difficult to sail well) was my Magnum 9.9 moth in force 2 and below. Like riding a bike it was stable at speed, but I really struggled in the light stuff.
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Smight at BBSC
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Sailed an older lower rider moth, not sure on design but it had a tin rig and was an absolute b*s*a*rd, might have been something to do with the boat itself as most of it didn't seem to work. Never got on with a 300 either but the moth was definitely harder to just sail.
Saying that my RS 600 beat me up for a good few years before I got to grips with it. A particularly demoralizing Bloody Mary of many capsizes was a low point but I took some solace in finding the leak which seemed to magnify the boat's death wish on that occasion!
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Chris_H
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 14 Sep 20 at 11:07am | |
My RS600 (#802) was the most difficult boat I have sailed. When I first took delivery of it many moons ago, when the previous generation RS were at Chandlers Ford (now Romsey), I went straight to Stokes Bay SC, rigged it, and went for my first sail. I promptly capsized within 50 yds off the beach. A few blasts later and many more capsizes, I became exhausted and need the help of a safety boat after a particularly troublesome multiple windward capsize. All this in front of my future wife and my mother. I eventually got to grips with it and later had a fun time at Lake Garda on honeymoon in 1997 - pictured here (yes, I took it on honeymoon). Fab, if difficult, boat
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GybeFunny
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 14 Sep 20 at 12:53pm | |
I guess having seen your first attempt and being newlywed she fancied the life insurance she was now eligible for....
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H2
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 14 Sep 20 at 1:47pm | |
So Chris - when I read your post first time I thought your wife was your mother....then I re-read it and worked out they were both there but different people...phew
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Chris_H
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 14 Sep 20 at 1:50pm | |
Yeah, perhaps could have worded it better. ;-) Though my wife turned out to be a bitch and we divorced some years later. My mother, I cant divorce her ..... ;-)
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iGRF
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 14 Sep 20 at 2:01pm | |
So you took a single hander on honeymoon and your wife turned out to be a bitch, why does that not surprise me?
They can be so unreasonable. |
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Chris_H
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 14 Sep 20 at 2:04pm | |
Indeed. What else are you supposed to do on honeymoon?
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iGRF
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 14 Sep 20 at 3:05pm | |
Er just a thought.. you didn't take your mother as well by any chance? |
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