Racing Classes Review

GRF

We are not into 'sizeism' in any way - I'd like everyone to be a potential customer.  The current limitation we work with is a hull one - it works fantastically well with a bigger rig but not so well with a much smaller one.  Don't think we've not considered all the options and I do mean all !  You can't do everything really well with one base hull.  But that can change ....

However if 'light' you could still play with a wire and wings and maybe even a Halo rig I suppose - and that wild card  has crossed our minds amongst the many as well.  Generally though most classes currently seem to favour lightweights more than they do heavyweights overall and that trend is increasing.  So we thought we'd work to our current strengths and for heavier guys develop a different sort of approach.

A fit lightweight can literally 'sail above their weight' much of the time especialy with good technique and if they have a flexi carbon stick and well designed sail .... but a fit 'heavyweight' is still heavy ! 

So we have gone the way we have because 1) The hull works very well indeed with the enhanced rig 2) We were asked to do it by heavy guys that felt they were losing advantage in their current classes - mainly due to  recent rig and material advances.  3) An alternative hull would be needed to do what we wanted with other rig configurations such as 'smaller' rig etc.

Mike L.

Originally posted by G.R.F. I've no idea what they did with it, probably in landfill by now, they certainly didn't take kindly to my build a bigger bonfire suggestion.. Don't kids learn in Optimists. Brought my kid a Bic Open altogether a much more 'modern' approach, still stupidly too heavy for her to handle up and down the beach, so she doesn't.

Just for the record I'm sure plenty of clubs or individuals would have taken them off your hands and given them a new lease of life, even if some repair work was necessary. Just put them on Ebay for 99p, buyer must collect.

Yeah, whatever your personal opinion of them, somebody would have wanted them. Chucking away usable stuff is just
stupid.

.. and perhaps a Furball too for some proper therapy... old ones aren't competitive anyway!