The exciting new H-10
No, it’s not the new Huston-10 – though I wish I had the talent to have put this new boat together.
This is the new H-10 – the H is shorthand for Hoyt – as in Garry Hoyt, he of a prior post on the excellent Alerion line of boats.
Nothing in my lifetime is ever going to be an Opti-killer, but the H-10 is one of the new alternatives for kids who want to sail something other than a slow square box.
Built of carbon, it will weigh only 72 pounds. Simple lanteen rig. Garry told me not to long ago that it planes easily – the new Sail Magazine suggests it even planes to weather.
I also like the new Bic O’Pen and Iain Murray’s Nippa out of Australia, but I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the H-10 is going to catch on as well. All three of these boats have their advantages – and while many think the sport should have only one world wide youth training boat, I disagree. That is like saying you can only listen to one kind of music, or wear one kind of clothes, or eat one kind of food. Opti’s are fine for some, but the H-10 is going to be great for others.
The above pic was borrowed from Sail Mag – let’s hope that orders for the H-10 pour in and Garry gets a proper website up and running very soon.
Be the first kid in your bay to own the coolest new boat floating.
H-10 could also probably stand for Happy-10, because any kid that gets one of these as a 10th birthday present is going to be very happy.
February 16, 2007 at 8:29 am
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What happened to us, people? When did we become such lemmings?
We have lost friends and influenced no one. No wonder most of the world thinks we suck. Thanks to what george bush has done to our country during the past three years, we do!