Women's skiff re-vote

Now many of us have actually seen these boats which do you think is the best boat?

Edited by seamonkey - 04 Mar 12 at 1:11pm

What kind of thing would you like then?

I agree, it flexed massively when I put some weight on the racks, and the position of the trapeze wires was horrible. That said, the aura seemed to have changed for the worse with the rack design from when I saw the prototype at the ovington inlands, although the new rudder gantry and foils were stunning. The 900 was a bit of a let down having read the review, with the hull weight taking me by surprise and also the jib sheeting system seeming over complex for what was needed, leading to a weird way of making continuous sheets by threading the jib sheet through the mainsheet, very odd in my humble opinion.

Originally posted by ham4sand id like a rs900 that was a sensible weight

The hull weight is 55kg excluding solid wings. All up weight is 109kg. So the 12ft boat is 45kg, that's 3.75 kg per foot, the 900 works out at 3.6kg per foot but that is obviously excluding the wings. Sounds sensible to me.

the aruas wings did not seem big enough for for to people or certainly a tight squeeze BUT the carbon work on it looked amazing and the gantry was the dogs dangles bits !! but the 900 had it for me