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    Posted: 13 Jan 13 at 10:42am
The 2000 seems very close in purpose to the 200.
Having survived the 400 facelift, one wonders what will be done to the 200.
It will be interesting to see if the 2000 CA integrates or not.

What's the 2000 like internationally? Did Laser market it well elsewhere?
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Originally posted by getafix

A little surprised by the 'anti-RS' nature of some of the posts here, IMO they'll do a good job of the L2K and adding them to the RS circuit events will certainly boost numbers and bring in a new demographic.
L2K is a good boat. It's a safe, easy, class racer and rightly popular with sailing schools.
Vision has a niche, it's a better family cruiser IMO as it can be dragged up beaches and shingle without lasting issues, something you definitely would not want to do with an L2K. As such it's also popular with sailing schools.


Agreed - a good design with a good Class Assc start getting their boats made by a company with a good track record of building quality products, good marketing, and supportive of events with a great customer-service reputation.
Everyone's a winner from what I can see.
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A little surprised by the 'anti-RS' nature of some of the posts here, IMO they'll do a good job of the L2K and adding them to the RS circuit events will certainly boost numbers and bring in a new demographic.

L2K is a good boat. It's a safe, easy, class racer and rightly popular with sailing schools.

Vision has a niche, it's a better family cruiser IMO as it can be dragged up beaches and shingle without lasting issues, something you definitely would not want to do with an L2K. As such it's also popular with sailing schools.
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Originally posted by r2d2

(why) don't clubs offer W/L racing as well as RTC?

I can only speak for my club, but we used to do w/ls for the asymms and quads for everyone else in the afternoon, and gave it up after the asymmetric sailors got bored with W/Ls and said they wanted to do the quadrilaterals.
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Originally posted by Lukepiewalker

Many clubs don't offer w/l racing because they are various combinations of small, narrow and funny shapes...
And reaching is fun dammit...

Are we talking about the minds of the committee or the water we sail on?
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Many clubs don't offer w/l racing because they are various combinations of small, narrow and funny shapes...
And reaching is fun dammit...
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I have always found the L2000 to be a great boat, but under powered.  T
 
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No such thing as underpowered - just under windy!

And there might be a bit of an assumption in LPE selling the right to build the 2K to RS.
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Oh well I was looking at an l2k as the next stage u for my daughter and I in the future, guess its off the list again now. But in all seriousness that's good business for rs.

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