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I must not speculate on who the real person is behind forum identities

I must not speculate on who the real person is behind forum identities

I must not speculate on who the real person is behind forum identities

I must not speculate on who the real person is behind forum identities

I must not speculate on who the real person is behind forum identities

I must not speculate on who the real person is behind forum identities

I must not speculate on who the real person is behind forum identities

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You can't take the word of some muppet who hasn't the balls to even introduce himself in his desperation to troll a load of b**locks...

 

Ha Ha. Says the biggest troll on the Y&Y forum.

 

Of course you care what people think; that is why you are on here telling us all about it. If you didn't care what people think you could have gone about your project in private.

 

Originally posted by G.R.F. Buying inherently unsafe boats that you couldn't take out without the benefit of a rescue

 

Let see if you can right the old coal barge from turtle in 25 knots and lumps; then we'll know how safe your creation is ... those 49ers may have capsized in China but they were soon up & running again; unaided ...

au contraire- there is and has always been a lot of perplexity and confusion.

On the one hand it was an 'obvious' candidate to get a kite, but that would slashed the fleet in two, probably even more as some would want a w/l weapon with a 12+sqm whereas  others would like the 'sh*ts n giggles' kite that really wouldn't add much VMG downwind, but could at least be used on a reach.  

It's what the market might have wanted at first glance wasn't it?  Certainly the buzz from the RS100 could have been easily channelled into 300 new boat sales 4 years ago now when the only viable competition was the Vareo.... but how many would have stuck with it for club racing?  Asymmetrics rarely seem to pay unless it's a noddy kite like on a 200.

Does the UK sailing's infrastructure really support singlehanded asymmetrics?  Even if it did, would windward/leewards get boring week-in/week-out?  I don't know, I've never had the luxury to find out...  it's never taken off at our sailing club, which is one of the biggest inland puddles in the UK, but then we've got a certain resistance toward it that previously I've abhorred, but more recently have begun to appreciate.

So have Cirrus done the right thing, holding fire on this asymmetric hype- riding out the vocal 'wtf are you thinking- bang a kite on it Mike' mantra of a few years back?  I don't know, but maybe Mike was right all along- incremental development seems to work for the long term of the class and it's growing.  I know one respected dinghy journalist and commentator was not overly impressed with either the D1 or RS100 for club racing for this very reason- it simply doesn't fit with the club racing on offer at most clubs.

I'm keen as the next person to sail a kited boat, but I'm realistic now to know if there were a few Blazes at Draycote I'd happily join them and to be honest, we wouldn't need to 'overhaul' the club racing programme to get good sailing to do it.  It would fit alongside the Lasers & Solos as good singlehanded option.  I'll see what develops over the next 12 months at club level, the 300 is still very much a good option too... always a Solo to fall back on.