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Introduction
RS Performance Range boats are crafted with a focus on innovation in construction and rig technology, aiming to deliver fun, easy handling, and speed. These boats cater to sailors of all experience levels, featuring award-winning designs known for their build quality and handling.
Performance and Design
RS boats are celebrated for their performance, favored by top sailors and Olympians. They are constructed using advanced techniques and high-grade fittings for durability and performance. The RS100, for instance, is a high-performance single-hander accessible to a wide range of sailors.
Class Associations and Events
Each RS boat class has an active Class Association that organizes events globally, fostering a community of passionate sailors. These events are known for their vibrant atmosphere and professional organization, attracting sailors from diverse backgrounds.
Specifications
The document details specifications for various RS models, including hull length, beam, hull weight, sail types, mast materials, and construction techniques. For example, the RS Vareo has a hull length of 4.25m and a hull weight of 68kg, with GRP composite construction.
RS100 Features
The RS100 is noted for its ease of handling and performance, featuring an ultra-light hull with molded wings for stability, a powerful compression vang, and a pivoting rudder for easy launching and recovery. Its construction ensures long-lasting durability.
RS200 Popularity
The RS200 is a popular two-person sailboat known for its handling and performance. It features a spacious cockpit, low sheet loads, and a simple fittings layout, making it suitable for a wide range of sailors. It is celebrated for its competitive racing fleets and sociable events.
Innovative Design
The RS300 is recognized for its innovative design, offering fast and responsive sailing. It features a narrow waterline for speed and a daggerboard for efficiency, with construction and sail design providing exceptional gust response and control.
RS300 Overview
The RS300 is celebrated for its lightweight and responsive handling, making it one of the fastest single-handers with a dedicated following. It emphasizes more sailing time and less maintenance due to high-quality fittings.
RS400 Features
Designed by Phil Morrison, the RS400 offers a blend of speed, maneuverability, and ease of control. It features an adjustable rig and high-volume hull, accommodating a wide range of crew weights, with a self-draining cockpit and pivoting foils for easy launching and recovery.
RS500 Highlights
The RS500 is designed for a broad weight range and is suitable for mixed crews. It offers a choice of sails for different purposes and is easy to rig, launch, and recover, known for its user-friendly performance and growing popularity in racing circuits.
RS600 Characteristics
The RS600 is a high-performance trapeze single-hander known for its speed and lightweight construction. It features a reef-able mainsail for control in various wind conditions and a performance equalization system to accommodate different sailor weights.
RS700 Performance
The RS700 is a fast, trapeze, and gennaker single-hander with a focus on user-friendly handling systems. It features a performance equalization system and is known for its exceptional downwind performance.
RS800 Overview
The RS800 is a double-handed skiff with performance equalization based on weight and leverage. It is designed for high-speed sailing with a light and strong hull, featuring a self-tacking jib and an asymmetric spinnaker for easy handling.
Vareo Features
The Vareo is a versatile single-hander with a stable hull and responsive rig, suitable for both novice and experienced sailors. It offers two mainsail size options and is designed for easy handling and family use.
RS Vareo Overview
The RS Vareo is a versatile sailing boat designed for both novice and experienced sailors, highlighting its features, performance capabilities, and user-friendly systems.
Specifications
The RS Vareo offers a choice of sails, including a fully battened Mylar main for performance and a semi-battened Storm sail for high wind control, equipped with an asymmetric spinnaker for exceptional downwind speed.
Performance and Handling
The Vareo is praised for its versatility and speed, suitable for both club racing and competitive circuits, designed to be easy to sail with a self-draining cockpit and righting lines for quick recovery from capsizes.
Durability
The RS Vareo is constructed with a strong GRP composite hull for durability and stiffness, with foils made of anodised aluminium and a mast combining an alloy lower section with a composite tip for strength and handling.
User Experience
Testimonials highlight the Vareo's ease of use, competitive edge in mixed fleet racing, and the enjoyment it brings to sailors of all levels, with features like a mast track and halyard for easy sail management.
Conclusion
The RS Vareo is positioned as a high-performance, user-friendly single-hander appealing to a wide range of sailors, combining modern design with classic handling for both recreational and competitive sailing.
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Catalog excerpts

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Performance range Sail it. Live it. Love it.

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RS Performance Range From the outset, RS boats have been created with passion. A passion to use the latest developments in construction and rig technology to produce boats that are more fun to sail, easier to handle and faster. Our heritage in flat out racing classes means that our range of Performance boats is unparalleled. Men and women of all experience levels are catered for in range of award-winning designs that satisfy even the most discerning sailors. We are proud of our reputation for exciting boats that couple outstanding build quality with beautiful handling. Our construction techniques...

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Class Associations Great times on and off the water All of the boats in our Performance Range have a highly active Class Association dedicated to organising fantastic events all over the world. They are run by sailors, for sailors and they are an extremely passionate bunch responsible for everything from major event planning to maintaining the class rules. Each Class has their own dedicated association and a web-site with events, news and a forum for community activity and that all important sailing banter! RS events are renowned for their amazing atmosphere, professional organisation and brilliant...

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Mylar fully battened 10.96m2 / 115sqft Dacron Jib: 3m2/ 31sqft Dacron main: 7.5m2/80sqft 13.94m2 / 150sqft Carbon composite Epoxy foam sandwich Mylar Jib: 3.6m2/ 37sqft Mylar fully battened Mylar main: Full: 12.1m2 / 131sqft 9.5m2/ 100sqft Reefed: 10.55m2 /113sqft Mylar 4.92m2 / 52sqft Mylar + Kevlar Semi-battened 12.8m2 / 127sqft Mylar + Kevlar Semi-battened 11.77m2 / 124sqft Aluminium alloy Aluminium alloy, tapered mast Carbon composite Carbon composite Carbon composite Vinylester foam sandwich Epoxy foam sandwich Epoxy foam sandwich Epoxy foam sandwich Daggerboard, pivot rudder Both pivoting...

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Even before production began, the design of the eagerly awaited RS100 was closely followed by sailors all over the world. It not only had to live up to the expectation, but also appeal to a wide range of sailor sizes. Sail options allow you to choose the rig to suit your size and experience. Performance sailing made easy Many sailors have been fascinated by high performance single-handers with gennaker and trapeze, but they require dedication to master and race competitively. The RS100 brings modern high performance sailing within reach of a many more sailors. The hull is ultra light with moulded...

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Love it CLASS ASSOCIATIO N The world’s fastest selling performance single hander is now an ISAF Class with fleets building in many parts of the globe, a growing race programme and World Championships in 2013.

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The RS200 is one of the most popular two person sailboats of today, and it’s easy to see why. With easy, beautiful handling and adrenaline packed sailing for men and women, it is both exciting and a pleasure to sail. The best sailing experience One of the most successful race classes of the modern era with big fleets and awesome events. Exciting performance & responsive handling compliment this highly competitive and sociable fleet, now spreading internationally. Anyone who has sailed an RS200 downwind in a blow will testify to the boat’s fantastic excitement and pace. Its asymmetric spinnaker...

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Broad sailor weight range Innovative design - Great performance Long lasting durability Looking like it could take off at any moment, and with lines the envy of every boat in the park, she’s more than aesthetically pleasing. The same advanced computer design process that was used on the RS600 was used to produce a stunning hull form with great performance. It’s the boat that evokes passion and desire. Fast, responsive and challenging. The RS300 is a definitive boat. It has masses of innovative design features to improve handling and performance and has won accolades & fans since the day it was...

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One of the fastest production singlehanders with a cult following due to its ultra light weight and incredibly responsive handling.

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One of the success stories of modern racing classes, the RS400 has built many club racing fleets, a vibrant sponsored racing circuit and some of the most competitive championships at stunning venues - With a serious social scene to match.

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Beautiful handling - Great racing The design is the result of Phil Morrison’s years of experience – The perfect blend of speed, manoeuvrability and good manners. Vice free and a real joy to sail, the RS400 delivers superb racing at club, circuit and championship level. The rig is highly adjustable with excellent power control and, when coupled with the high volume hull, these features allow a wide competitive crew weight range. Designed for ease and control Nothing matches the RS400’s balanced and responsive handling, its good manners in big breeze and the excitement of asymmetric racing in big...

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The hull design, cockpit ergonomics and rig size result from extensive R & D meaning the RS500 is ideal for sailors across a broad weight range. The RS500 suits mixed crews, both young and more experienced. The clear cockpit and user friendly performance mean the RS500 is equally at home blasting along a beach as it is on the race track. It’s not only fast and fun, the RS500 is also rapidly growing in popularity. There is a choice of sails: XL spec Mylar main and jib for Class racing and top performance, or the smaller S spec Dacron sails for durability, training and recreational sailing. Fast,...

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With ISAF Class status and growing fleets in many countries, the RS500 gives fantastic competition in clubs, on the RS Racing Circuit and up to World Championship level. If you’re young at heart, love to travel and enjoy a big party after sailing, this is the class!

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LOVE it Challenging & exciting racing that keeps discerning sailors coming back for more. From club racing to competition on the RS Racing Circuit - Nothing quite matches the feel of an RS600.

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