Looking at one for sale in WA any one has sailed one? What is it like? Pointing , speed, minimum crew? Any info welcome.
I have sailed on a 780 5 crew very fast especially for the age not as fast as a meggels 24. We out pointed a new j70.
Got told that the young hull design make the boat to round easily is that real or just bs? How is it in a bit of swell? Another coment I have heard is they perform well on flat water and do not like the chop?
I crewed on one for several races in a mixed trailer sailer fleet on Lake Illawarra. It was rigged with a 16 foot skiff rig which we had to reef the main when it was fresh. Average up wind but really got up and boogied off the wind. Now it has a conventional rig and apparently performs well. It was very light and easy to get on and off a trailer. Needs at least one crew.
The Windie is a nice boat, but surely it's not in the same postcode as a Rocket.
I'm not sure about the 6.6, but the few times I sailed the Rocket 7.8 I can't recall it being particularly slow in a chop for a sportsboat of its era. One problem with the Rockets is that so many were built by different people to different modifications that they have a very wide range of performance. Some were home build, short rigged and heavy and some were exotic deep-keel big-rig fliers.
Personally I really like the ones that were a bit cruisier as I don't really understand the flat-out sportsboat concept (if you want a boat you can't cruise why not buy a skiff or cat?) but that's just me.
The only 7.8's I have seen racing was in Canberra and they left the opposition for dead! The 6.6 is not quite the same. The Windrush is more cruising and with a cockpit tent is how I would do the Whitsundays. It's also a real good buy. I'm tempted to drive over and tow it home but the project manager has put a kibosh on that one!
Cisco is probably one a plane right now.
The wind rush has always been Cisco favorit!
I like the 6.6 cause I am mainly racing also I thing I could set it up so I could cruise it alone. I am in Albany WA and will be there for a while, the water is pretty flat there and wind is pretty strong.
That's a great price for the little Rocket. I wonder if it was built with a shorter rig, or have I just become used to Rocket 7.8s with bigger rigs?
Not sure about the rigging, not a lot of those around. I was interested in a similar yacht in Darwin but got sold before I sold my Farr and missed the deal. Was a bit dearer and had crappy sails.
The cheap deal on the one in Perth is the missing trailer, have one of my mate looking at a cheap trailer and modification (around the $1000 mark)
Will need to be a float on float off trailer because of the lead torpedo.
One thing I know about the Windrush Wildfire from experience is that they will punch to windward in a chop in 25 knots of breeze with jib and full main up and that was with two teenagers and one adult.
I heard of a guy in Perth who sails his single handed in the Fremantle Doctor out to Rotto just about every weekend.
