10-07-2010, 04:55 PM
[quote leechman]One of the fun things you can do with the FC 4's is sail them. Your upper body and the tube itself provides enough service area to serve as a sail and you have enough mass and volume under the water with your calves and what your butt and the tube displace to form a keel or centerboard effect. The result is that you can tack into the wind and reach across the wind with very little effort on windy days. The fun part is watching the guys with pontoon boats fighting the wind, wind vaneing all of the time and really working to move against the wind. I sailed El Toros as a kid and was very pleasantly surprised to find the capability in the FC 4. It sure doesn't happen with toons and round tubes.
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I have ODC 420's as well as several small 6' pontoons. They are rigged for speed and power against wind with a very small electric motor and my feet out of the water. At least for my case, all of the pontoons are faster and have a longer range than all of the "V" style with all other conditions being the same. But maybe that is because I don't have my legs in the water and am not using fins....
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Leechman[/quote]
I have ODC 420's as well as several small 6' pontoons. They are rigged for speed and power against wind with a very small electric motor and my feet out of the water. At least for my case, all of the pontoons are faster and have a longer range than all of the "V" style with all other conditions being the same. But maybe that is because I don't have my legs in the water and am not using fins....
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