Poole week Skiff class racing

Much respect Phil dude, it must have taken you aaaages to find that picture. You must REALLY have wanted to make that point! I feel honoured you went to all that effort.

I'm sure the Scottish Skiff Racing is very high quality, and does a great job of getting people on the water. But they still appear to include all manner of classes under their banner of "skiff" racing. Vortex, Iso, Spice? No way Jimmy. In the list of classes I can only see one which could ever be called a "real" skiff. Some of the others are "skiff-types", and some are quite simply "dinghies". And one is even a "catamaran"! It's yet another example of organisations rippings off the term to market themselves, just because they want to be assosiated with the extreme sailing that happens in the land down under. At the end of the day, using the term is "skiff" when your not, smacks a bit of "wannabe".