Devotti Single Hander

Originally posted by brookesy Chris, your constant Finn bashing is becoming more boring than ever,

Its not Finn bashing, but it is calling out... The sport suffers too much from people making preposterous claims that don't stand up in the cold light of day, and it can only be a good thing to bring in a dose of reality. And 339 boats for the masters is pretty impressive, so it really doesn't need to have some nonsense claims added onto it...

Chris, your constant Finn bashing is becoming more boring than ever, and I do not think anyone really is surprised that the Laser Masters attracts more than the Finns.

Your black cat really is blacker than our black cat.  

Certainly can't see any facts to back up the claim that the Finn Masters is
bigger than the Laser Masters.

The Finn Masters Worlds, sailed in the heartland of Europe, got 229
entries, but the last couple of Laser worlds were RESTRICTED to 370 and
450 or so. The last Laser Masters reached the limit of 370 entries within 4
1/2 days of opening entry. The next Masters worlds will require pre-
qualification and has a 450 boat (approx) limit.

It looks like about 125 German sailors (Junior , Open and Master) turned
up to one or more Finn events last year. We got the same number of Laser
Masters to a single local regatta in my home town.

It's nice that GRF agrees with me, last time he recommended my termination!  Re Supernova and build issues, we do have one Hartley built boat which creaks a bit but its been doing that for 3 hard years (at least you can hear it coming!) but what fairly low volume boat does not?  Even the mighty RS are not perfect.

Originally posted by tickler This forum has a terrible habit of groups of people expressing views from their own small groups, if you see what I mean. Little comment ever comes from outside these groups.

I'm sure you're right Tickler, but what are we supposed to do about it ?   It's not like I can go back to my club and
force the (huge) Solo and Flying Fifteen fleets to get active on this forum.

And I'm not at all convinced that manufacturers 'see the big picture'. If I was a big manufacturer of Finns, I might
well design something that looked like a Finn for the Noughties, without too much regard for what everyone else in the
world was up to. I might then be a bit surprised that some unflattering comments came my way. The bottom line here is
that we give our opinions as best we can and (hopefully) without bias, which is not something that the manufacturers
can do.