i sail a 29er but learnt in sabots but have sailed 420s hobies RS's and a few more aswell. Basically i'm not a huge fan of symmetrical chutes i find them hard to use and they take ages to put up even for the top guys. 29ers are far faster in all conditions than the 420, and are relatively easy...
hey i sail a 29er in aus so im not too sure about pounds...but me and my skipper are way underweight at about 100kgs combined...we do ok in the windy stuff though.
ur deffinately not too old and 280lbs looks perfect after i did the conversions
i sail a 29er so similar i assume...when we're going upwind we go for height in the light stuff(under 10kts), 10-15 we go even higher, then anything over 15 is always choppy where i'm from so we crack off 5-10 degrees to power up over the waves
jamesy might be interested tho and im sure he has info on the boat so i'll get him 2 post some................(this is ur cue 2 post some info on it jamesy.....)
Are there any 29ers up in north qld, coz the 2 of us at rq (brisbane) are getting sick of the competition??
-is anyone looking to get into the class either????? or any1 in nsw looking 2 cum up 4 states?