Phils Rig School continued...

Yes I think you're both right, nothing I'd like more than to develop stuff in
a modern restricted class, it could have happened in the Alto, hence why
I was so excited by it, new class in it's infancy with some already fairly
radical ideas (from my limited perspective).

Who was it that suggested the box OD idea? Someone here, and
mentioned it again recently. Sort of a single handed cherub, but with
what can we say some more 'not going to embarrass me in my hard core
world of kiters, snowboarders etc' name.
Oh what you doing these days Graeme? Shifts awkwardly from one foot
to the other, looks at the ground and mutters in a whisper 'er sailing a
cherub'.
Sorry even my skin isn't thick enough to stand the abuse I'd get some
several minutes later when they'd stopped laughing. More seriously, 12 ft
is too short, it doesn't agree with English Channel wave length never has
not in any craft, the bottom's littered with broken 12ft speedboats.

No some 'Open class where the top end of the sail size is set and the
length and maybe width of the box are limited would be highly
interesting.
Would it not also provide a platform for the Bloodaxes and Aardvarks of
this world and if the prime rule is that the craft remain easy to sail by
some limitation that rules out the trickier elements then it would be more
commercial and thus greater demand might re kindle the local cottage
Industry.


This bit for Chris..
Er what's with the racism jokes? last time i looked you convicts were the
same 'race' as us. That's the 2nd time this week the 'R' word has been
used inappropriately, we're touchy about it over here these days, you've
only got to disagree with anything to do with another country and you get
accused of being racists, we've even had the Eytie sympathisers at it
needlessly.
As to the Laser beating a modern Raceboard, you must be doing it very
wrong is all i can say, or your still using 7.5 sqmtr rigs.