Topaz UNO Customer Feedback

As Australia is still a young market for the Topaz range these quotes come from NZ owners

Comments from Topaz Uno/Plus/Race/Race Plus (One Hull) owner Zoe Hawkins (ex Crew.org editor) in NZ.

- This is still my favorite out of all the dinghies I've ever sailed - very stable compared with a Laser but has lots of get up and go to it. Next year I'm going to chuck a gennaker on it and see what happens.

- The boat planes really easily

- I�ve got an Uno and absolutely love it. It�s a lovely little boat, very forgiving but can put on the speed too.

- I thought I was too chicken to really enjoy dinghy sailing but the Uno has built up my confidence big time and I�m really comfortable now taking it out even on heavier days.

- Carrying the big main downwind or reaching in heavier conditions would be a bit of fun but I find the boat handles that stuff really well, the bow seems to have enough buoyancy in it and the boat has enough speed that you can put it wherever you want on the wave, even in quite big waves it�s pretty stable once it�s up on the plane, and easy to keep there. No scary death rolls like in a Europe or Laser!

- Thanks to this boat, I�ve gone from being terrified of sailing in white caps to thinking the more wind the better (up to a certain point!)

- Racing with French Bay Yacht Club in the Manukau Harbour on Sunday afternoon, the Topaz Uno Race equipped with its new fully battened, roachy mainsail, and sailed one-up, demonstrated that it can indeed be as fast, and possibly even a little bit faster, than a standard rigged Laser. Despite being handicapped by its skipper's inability to finesse a roll tack, and her competitor's ability to execute them perfectly, when sailing boat on boat, the boat had superior height and speed against the two Lasers in the fleet.

- Pleased that the boat handled just as well single handed with the new mainsail as it does two-handed.

Email from a Lady Uno Race X owner:

My sister grew up sailing like me in P class and starlings so we had some fun together. I took my 17yr old daughter and her friend out together one day (3 up)and we all had fun and it wasn't too crowded.

Topaz Uno Race X owner & son

Amazing sail, incredible speed, talk about fast! and we didn't even have the gennaker up!

Segment of an email from a prospective client;

I�m a relatively inexperienced sailor myself but until I get a boat that won�t change. The Topaz system seems ideal as a boat that�ll grow with us. My children are 10 and 8 yrs and about 55-60kg together. The children have only sailed an Opti. I was hoping we�d be able to sail 1 adult/1 child or 2 children together.

Email from the same client after a demo of the Uno:

I was impressed by the forgiving nature and sail ability of the Uno. As we discussed, I'm keen and I'd like to go ahead and buy one from you.

Topaz Race Plus owner:

Since owning the Uno Race Plus my other sailing dinghy has become somewhat redundant as the Uno is far more fun to sail, plus being much faster to rig I have now found myself sailing a lot more. The old dinghy is now surplus to requirements and will be going on the secondhand market soon.

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