two-sail dinghies

Originally posted by tickel Wives are no use exept in exeptional circumstances

What circumstances would those be then?

 

Originally posted by Stefan Lloyd Originally posted by tickel Wives are no use exept in exeptional circumstances  What circumstances would those be then?

Firefly crewing! Amazing how common it is to marry your crew in the Firefly class...It is the best way to keep a good crew...Then kids come along and you are back to square one...Still, my six year old has started crewing now, so things may be on the up again!

Reckon another possibility for the big manufacturers not investing in the 2 sail market is because there are already good boats out there auch as the Albacore, N12, Enterprise, Tasar and Firefly. Building and developing a like SMOD to the N12, for example, would be very difficult and then you'd have to invest some heavy marketing to shift sailors from the class into the SMOD. It's probably the same reason that the focus has shifted from the High Performance market to the training market with the big manufacturers, because its an easier market to target and less investment in development and build cost have to be made.

Originally posted by 49erGBR735HSC . Building and developing a like SMOD to the N12, for example, would be very difficult and then you'd have to invest some heavy marketing to shift sailors from the class into the SMOD.

I don't think it works like that. Consider the RS400 and Merlin Rocket; the first more or less a copy of the latter, and from a prolific MR designer. The RS400 attracted plenty of sailors but not, with a few exceptions, out of the MR fleet.

 

Originally posted by Stefan Lloyd Originally posted by 49erGBR735HSC . Building and developing a like SMOD to the N12, for example, would be very difficult and then you'd have to invest some heavy marketing to shift sailors from the class into the SMOD. I don't think it works like that. Consider the RS400 and Merlin Rocket; the first more or less a copy of the latter, and from a prolific MR designer. The RS400 attracted plenty of sailors but not, with a few exceptions, out of the MR fleet.

cough.... it's got three sails.

RS400 is for MR sailors that didn't sail an MR becasue a Merlin Rocket is  Restricted Dev Boat and got all wobblerly over spending £15k on something that they felt would get out dated.

Weak minded cheap skates!!! ( don't flame me for that its a joke )

2 sail boats need a very srong USP.

N12 - you love developing and fidderling.
FireFly - you love team racing
Tasar - you want a rotating rig and don't want a Cat :-)
and let's face it a Tasar is almost a SMOD

So like I said you'ed need a techical innovation, like hydrofoils to sell it in large enough amounts for a manufacture to put the budget behind it. Especially when alot of ther production is geared towards holidays and schools.