oppies

Originally posted by laser47 (i.e you hike and the thing rights itself, no daggerboard needed)

surly wouldnt it slip sidways if it had no dagger board?  the taz and oppie are both boring boats but if i had a choice and i didnt know anything about boats i would have the taz every time cos it looks simple, low maintence etc and would probily be perfetc for a young person that didnt want to race just capsize with friends etc

Any boat where the manufacturer releases a weighted daggerboard must be pretty flawed in it's design. I have taught many courses with them and concluded that the taz is a truely horrible boat. How can you rip off a proven design and make it that much worse?

Edited by m_liddell

I think you're all missing the point. Nobody sails boats like Oppies because they're a joy to sail... they sail them because everybody else does. How else do you explain the Laser?

I too have decided not to get my lad an Oppy (just in case), he's gonna have to sail with me until he's big enough for a Tera!

Originally posted by charlie w yeah but......Most top sailors do seem to have come from the oppie fleet, though.

how many other choices were there when todays top sailors were oppy age?

If i had kid (god for bid nasty little buggers ( i tean them all week) ) id buy them an oppie as its the world wide fleet and if your gonna get better you might as well race against the rest of them who are going at it as well