V Twin

Well he was right.

So the entire volume producing business have now turned their efforts into producing heavy washing up bowls and marketing that as the sport to the masses, what chance is there, when a man woman or even two grown men will struggle to even lift it, never mind car top it, or push it about the yard.

Heavy things very soon become too tiresome to bother with anyway and folk move on.

I was of thought some dead weight in the hull would help.  In my experience the lighter boats with big rigs tend to be the biggest PITA for shoredump launches, look what happened at the 600 nationals a few years back.  How many snapped masts???

The majority of dinghy sailors sail one-design classes, whether in class or menagerie racing. In racing, the objective is racing against others not simple-minded speed-freakery-going-fast. If the appeal came solely from speed we'd sail cats or boards, Zarquon help us. But we don't 'cos it don't. So reducing minimum weight just adds cost to no tangible, worthwhile benefit. The same principle pretty much applies to some dev classes too, Moth and Cherub being obvious exceptions. But even then you are missing the point - velocity is relative: there is nothing speed-exciting about sitting in a jumbo jet at 550mph at 35,000ft  after all. The fun comes from being on the edge of control and that can happen as much in a firefly (try run-to-run gybing one in a F6 and a big sea alongside 60 others -  and don't get all condescending on something you've never experienced, such behaviour is simply pathetic) as anything else.

Even you have just admitted to a domestic over buying your EPS: why would the rest of the dinghy world be immune? "Darling I need to buy a new boat, so we won't be going on holiday this year. Why? Because Graeme Fuller thinks my boat should be 10% lighter, to no real benefit to anyone but we must all bow to his wishes." You may want to to start chopping down all Kent's trees, 'cos the lynch mob will be there anyday now.

Your motivation may be different from the rest of us, which is fine, but please to not try and impose your personal values on every one else.

And as for luff curve not matching mast bend, I think you've just libelled a whole industry. Their class action against you for suggesting they are negligent should be fun. Have you not noticed, even now, that design is a compromise when a boat/mast/rig has to perform in winds from 2mph to 35 mph and in sea states from flat to whoa, scary? Ye canna change the laws o' physics. Not even through the Y&Y forum.

Now I happily accept my top batten on the 100 wants to hook a bit in 4 mph, but I'll deal with that for it to work in 25+. Everyone else with a 100 has the same issue too and the principle, almost by definition, applies equally with many other SMOD rigs. Otherwise, i'd say the 100 sail and mast are matched fine: there are no over bending or other creases as you would get if the sail and mast fought each other.