Oh dear!

 

Hmm.  For sailing maybe,  but for serious racing?  If you don't work for a sail loft or boat builder but fancy your chances of winning, it is going to get very expensive if you feel obliged to turn up with a quiver of (new?) sails for every championship.   And at the extremes of weather, if you have a free choice of sail size, there will be times when you will be at an advantage, depending on your weight i.e.  (BFT6: Heavy bloke vs. light bloke both using a small sail; BFT0 - 1: light bloke vs heavy bloke both using the biggest sail.)  But I guess over much of the sailable wind range it becomes a more even contest.

 

Showing my ignorance for a moment, how is sail choice currently controlled in classes like the RS300?  Are you allowed to use two sizes of sail in the same race series?  Is the size determied by personal choice or body weight according to class rules?  

for example clothing... why is that whenever there's a sale on, it's only the small (and occasionally) medium t-shirts that are left in it?  Simples... short/skinny folks demand they get treated equally, so shop stock up but then they get left with it.  When in truth everyone knows that short people can't afford nice stuff anyway.    

Now you don't need an economics degree to know that a shop selling its smaller sizes at sub-cost at the end of the season needs inflated profit elsewhere to sustain the model... in other words, us regular blokes in L and XL T-Shirts are subbing your sale items at our 'inflated' RRP.

And the irony is.... there's already a special area of the store for you guys. It's called the Children's Section... please go buy your t-shirts there, and don't bleat about the prices... shoes are VAT free for your little feet too.  

I hear even Dakine does a kids range these days and you might get a free lollipop if you shop in the right children's section... you look like you need the calories.