RS600 on the Harbor

If you haven't noticed the RS600 out on the harbor over the past couple of years then you've been missing a sight.

Peter Doherty has been out there ramping up his skills in one of the trickier boats you can sail.

An RS600 is light, fast, single-handed with trapeze and wings, an unstable canoe hull rather than a nice stable flat skiff hull, full battens to keep the power on even if you're not ready for it, and a 12m2 mainsail (nearly 20% more than a Finn), and all inside the puffy gusty confines of Dun Laoghaire Harbor.

But when you get it to work it's a responsive dream. Light, fast, great foils to steer and point with, POWER and the leverage to control it with.  But not an easy start.

Here's his video of the work so far. Kudos dude!  And anyone who thinks his self described "incompetence" isn't just the wrong description should give an RS600 a try. Inside Dun Laoghaire Harbor. And getting it out through Hell's Gates too.



I wanna see this boat at full charge, with Peter on the wire and hooting.

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