Future Olympic Classes?

   lol argh conspriacy theorys  
Oh well i dont know i have never sailed any of the boats before, but they look good.

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KnightMare Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 08 Feb 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1682	Post Options Post Reply Quote KnightMare Report Post Quote Reply Topic: Future Olympic Classes? Posted: 21 Apr 05 at 4:51pm
	lol argh conspriacy theorys Oh well i dont know i have never sailed any of the boats before, but they look good.


49erGBR735HSC Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 30 Mar 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1991	Post Options Post Reply Quote 49erGBR735HSC Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 21 Apr 05 at 4:46pm
	Maybe it was a conspiracy to get us thinking about FDs again, doesn't matter anyway, I still think the 505 is the best out of the lot of them!
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KnightMare Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 08 Feb 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1682	Post Options Post Reply Quote KnightMare Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 21 Apr 05 at 4:39pm
	yeah we were jsut going on the information presented to us.


49erGBR735HSC Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 30 Mar 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1991	Post Options Post Reply Quote 49erGBR735HSC Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 21 Apr 05 at 4:24pm
	It was dinghysolutions who brought the subject up a bout the FD replacing the 470, and I've heard mutterings before about it. And in general terms, the 505 seems a cheaper boat than the 470 for the average sailor to sail. Edited by 49erGBR735HSC
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furtive Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Posting king Joined: 30 Mar 05 Online Status: Offline Posts: 188	Post Options Post Reply Quote furtive Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 21 Apr 05 at 4:14pm
	Who says the 470 is going to be dropped anyway? It's an established Olympic class, which fills the Men's and Women's double-hander slot perfectly, and in Olympic circles that counts for a lot - they are unlikely to make changes just for the sake of it. If the 470 (men) was changed for the 505 or FD, you would immediately make it harder for less developed countries to compete (rich countries would spend lots of cash getting the most out of the new boat, as GBR did with the Yngling), you would increase the crew weight needed (great for fat Europeans/N Americans, bad for Asia etc), and you'd need to find a new boat for the woman to sail. Everything points to the 470 staying in place for a good while yet!

KnightMare Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 08 Feb 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1682	Post Options Post Reply Quote KnightMare Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 21 Apr 05 at 2:21pm
	yeah thats the problem with half of these things. Looks good but gland im not out, or sounds good but you wouldnt catch me organising it.


5420 Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 16 Mar 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 622	Post Options Post Reply Quote 5420 Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 21 Apr 05 at 1:49pm
	you would get fast boats carving up slow boat and how good would that be to wach as long you are not out there

49erGBR735HSC Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 30 Mar 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1991	Post Options Post Reply Quote 49erGBR735HSC Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 21 Apr 05 at 1:44pm
	Good stuff, we'd get a few 18s turning out to race a few GP14s, could make interesting TV
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lozza Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Far too distracted from work Joined: 23 Sep 04 Online Status: Offline Posts: 262	Post Options Post Reply Quote lozza Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 21 Apr 05 at 1:32pm
	I've had an idea, In the olympics, as well as the OD fleets, why not have a handicap fleet! Would never work in practice but would be interest to watch, especially if it was a persute race! I expect to be shot down in flames here... edit, this could allow the public to give some sort of indication of what boats they'd like to see at the next games? Edited by lozza
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5420 Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 16 Mar 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 622	Post Options Post Reply Quote 5420 Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 21 Apr 05 at 1:28pm
	we also need to get people to move into diffrent class that would mack it easer if there where less classis