Devotti Single Hander

I'm a club sailor and not a rockstar.

Actually, I ended up buying the boat after close watching, sailing and taking photographs of the final version of the boat (the blue foredecked one in my pictures). I would like to remember everyone to try a boat in its final stage prior to bashing or exalting her. Earning less than 1.000 GBP(in Euros equivalent) in a month makes me a little over-suspicious about throwing a lot of money to manufacturers, but since I need a singlehander NOW and putting myself in the lightweight class of sailors the choices were more than restricted to me: the D-One is a logical choice and fit perfectly to my needs. I'm certainly sure that the RS100 will be a good boat and I wish every success to LDC, but I didn't wrote a single word on the relative forum thread just because I'm not interested into a sort of vaporware. They made their product - not ready yet and Devoti made its' - ready to sail. The RS100 is more beautiful for your tastes? Kudos to LDC but I don't agree. 

Edited by matbard

Originally posted by turnturtle Best of luck with it; however I think circumstances might be different over here, as no one considering themselves 'lightweight' would opt for a boat with an 11m sail area and still expect to be sitting down.

I correct you: a boat with an 11m sail area, with adjustable wings, mast step, centreboard point and provision for a weight equalization that puts the competitive range from 70 to 95 Kgs (without splicing the fleet...).

 .........all this thread shows how narrow minded some uk sailors are. I bet you think the sun never sets on the empire eh !

The D-1 looks different, not to everyone's taste, the RS100 won't appeal to some either. Both will be good boats and have good pedigrees.

There are some huge classes ; dinghy, sports boats and others outside the UK.

This thread and forum need to grow up a bit

Can't even blame the heat...
2 new boats that hopefully won't vanish without a trace. RS100 would probebly suit me better personally if I ever decided to spend more than 50quid on a boat, but if the D1 gets a European circuit to rival the Finn, then Matt will have spent his money on something pretty special.
The European scene seems fairly conservative compared to the UK, with Olympic classes and long standing one designs still getting huge turnouts. Maybe we could learn from them, and take the best ideas without loosing the things that make UK sailing unique. Abuse doesn't seem the best way of doing this.

Maybe I need to re-read the last couple pages but I'm failing to see the
relevance of volvo....? Anyone care to enlighten me?