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  • December 6, 2004 at 8:57 am #5787
    James Bolton
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    What would be the yardstick for Sabre’s please?
    Lea

    December 6, 2004 at 10:02 am #6489
    heymacaulay
    Keymaster

    The VYC yardstick is 126.5 (down from 128 a few years ago).

    April 22, 2005 at 3:11 am #6490
    salliemerry674
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    Hi all,
    Have the sabre got that quick, or are all the other boats going slower. 😆

    February 19, 2006 at 5:15 am #6491
    Meryl Todd
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    While the VYA yardstick is 126.5, the South Australian yardstick was 140 with the Laser Radial equal in both.

    Having kept statistics from several championships with top skippers sailing I estimate the most appropriate yardstick would be 132-133. Over the whole wind range from 3 knots to 25 knots the Sabre only sails to its yardstick above 15 knots. The evidence is that in the low windspeeds the Sabre sails 7-8% slower than its yardstick when compared with other single handers such as the Laser Radial and Spiral.

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