Hi all

I am fairly new to IOM racing and own an Arion 1V, It seems to be a wee bit slow. That's no doubt down

to me or how the rig is setup but it is an old design, I was thinking of an up grade.  Britpop seems to be

the one, but with all the best there a waiting time. I have found some boats with two to three years wait

just to get on the list. MX Components of Thailand selling a number of different class boats and designs,

mxcomponents.com

Has anyone any thoughts I am looking at IOM MX20 Evo or the KanTwo. 

Michael

 

 

Put your name down on the waiting list and carry on sailing the Arion to it's full potential.

Look at the resale value of any boat you may be able to purchase and also how often they bring out a new design that lowers the value of the older design they manufactured.

Also keep your eye out for a decent 2nd hand top design, you have to move quick with these as they do get snapped up.

Good luck.

On 08/04/2022 at 13:14, Graham Elliott said:

Put your name down on the waiting list and carry on sailing the Arion to it's full potential.

Look at the resale value of any boat you may be able to purchase and also how often they bring out a new design that lowers the value of the older design they manufactured.

Also keep your eye out for a decent 2nd hand top design, you have to move quick with these as they do get snapped up.

Good luck.

Clearly the latest boats have some advantages but the top sailors use the latest boats.

Newcomers often sail with an older boat whilst learning.

How much would a top sailors position be affected if they were to race an "older" design?

Depends on the 'older' design and more importantly if the rigs were correct, updated foils, on weight?

Quite recently a Red Wine design won a ranking race with a decent helm, this boat was then 'given away' to someone else and performed excellently at last years Fleetwood Nationals.

Yes, most of the top guys will sail the faster more recent designs but when you get to the top that extra couple of percent on boat speed is what is needed.

On 12/04/2022 at 13:13, Graham Elliott said:

Depends on the 'older' design and more importantly if the rigs were correct, updated foils, on weight?

Quite recently a Red Wine design won a ranking race with a decent helm, this boat was then 'given away' to someone else and performed excellently at last years Fleetwood Nationals.

Yes, most of the top guys will sail the faster more recent designs but when you get to the top that extra couple of percent on boat speed is what is needed.

Useful advice Graham. I have too many other hobbies and lack the skill to race iom at top level. But getting an older cheaper boat and having the target of beating some mid fleet Britpops does appeal

I swopped my ISIS with a fellow sailors V10 for a few races and we finished more or less in the same places!

I suspect the old adage about it being 10% boat and 90% sailor is correct.  Certainly in the middle of the fleet.

5 hours ago, Trevor said:

I swopped my ISIS with a fellow sailors V10 for a few races and we finished more or less in the same places!

I do the same swapping my 2015 previous leading design IOM (was Craig Smith's AUS personal boat) with a V10 and although I can have good results at times the experienced V10 skipper normally is at the front of every race with my IOM but I continue to have varied results using his "fast" V10.

Only real difference is his 20 years experience sailing RC's vs my 1 year of experience so I 100% agree it's +90% the sailor and not the boat that makes the real difference.

Edited May 5, 20223 yr by womble66