Devotti Single Hander

Torbole looks nice.  The D1 just looks so tubby, a sort of bloated Franken-OK. 

It must be fiddly to attach/detach the wings, what with the controls being led to them.  Its never fun undoing stopper knots with hands that feel like bananas, after a cold January sail.  I'm also amazed a fixed kicker was considered, but I suppose the traveller reduces the importance of the kicker somewhat.

 

The porta-potty is great for taking your baby in though, bit like this:

really nice the concept of chief designer turnturtle....so to understand....by
doing like you suggest boat ends up slower than laser on windward
leeward...d one instead not!!!!today again beatiful sailing in torbole come
down and sail for to un derstand more

Turnturtle, why, if the D-one is not for you must you continue to knock it?

As they point out the target market is not necessarily the same.

To me it appears one is being built to a price to satisfy one need, whilst the other is to satisfy a more specific requirement.

If its not for you, why continue to poke at it, do you have a vested interest, or are you trying to achieve one ? 

Either order one, or leave it to others to make their own judgement. 

That seems a bit harsh Brookesy. The D1 has got 50 pages of comment (which is probably way more than it merits) and
most of it is positive. Quite a few posts are genuinely from people with a vested interest, and nobody complained
about those.

If TT doesn't like the look of the thing then that's fine. TBH, "Do I like the look of the D1 ?" is probably the
only question that everyone in the entire world will be able to answer for themselves without being swayed by
anyone else's opinion.

Well I am in the minority in that I really like it. But then I used to sail a Finn, which I think is a beautiful looking boat, so maybe my views are different to others on this forum.

If funds and my knackered back (not from Finn sailing I might add) would allow I would certainly have one.