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    Posted: 06 Apr 05 at 5:07pm
yer and that would bring some good entertainment into the sport!!  but what boat would they use?
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Yeah actualy that does sound like a good idea.
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For the mixed class what about having a double hander where you have to have a mixed crew? Its what they do in other sports e.g. squash
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i have seen a female crew in a 49er

for the b14 just mack it a female class because all the men will sail the 49er any way and that all so means that then you will have a lady skiff which is somehting we do not have at the moment

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How about the B14?

ISAF registered international class, make it the open boat, as 150kg give or take seems the right amount of crew weight so girls and boys can compete fairly.

Then make the 49er the mens double hander, no offence but I have't seen many female crews take to the water in it!
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yes but you have to have a bit of develoment to keep the class at the top of what is avalble to sail but also you dont want an arms race that makes it unfaier it is a fin line
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Originally posted by Guest#260

As someone who spent hours and hours 2 boat tuning in 470's in the late 80's trying to prove a better centerboard I know from experience. What a waste of time - I'd have rather been blasting around in a fixed design trying to improve my boat handling ind racing skills.

Why waste money and time on equipment testing programmes - that just turns the Olympics into a test of funding ...

Why indeed!

Maybe if you'd chosen to work on your boat-handling and racing skills in the 470, you might have got somewhere. Are you trying to suggest that Nick and Joe won their silvers because they had the second-best funded equipment development programme?

Let me tell you, they won their silvers because they were the second best sailors that week. They were the second best sailors because they have dedicated so many years to practising their sailing skills. The Americans just sailed a better regatta that week.

There is virtually no significant equipment development taking place in the 470 class these days. Any development that is taking place is not very expensive; incremental tweeks to sail shapes etc. It is as one-design as any other class, in that any differences in equipment are absolutely swamped by differences in sailing skill.

To suggest that it is an arms race is a slur on the class and on the sailors who are doing well in the class at the moment.

 
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hay what about a lady cat may be the hoby 16
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yes ben but don't go on about that you think the laser is the best boat in the world it is time to move on
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I agree the laser 2 would be a rubbish boat to put in the Olympics the 470is the right boat for now.
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