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Just goes to show what a firm hand the old buffer gits have if you can't even buy unapproved tennis rackets... First ran across this in the 70s when I discovered my home made table tennis bat didn't measure against the regulations...

There are no tennis rackets that are not of an 'approved' design, there are just not that many clubs, real tennis aside, demanding you use some old wooden racket designed in 1960. Ditto Golf

Nor are there other than type, engine size etc any limitations that tell you, you must buy this particular brand of lawnmower, at least there wasn't during the brief period i was involved in the pastime.

Edited by iGRF - 17 Dec 15 at 5:56pm

If you were forced to all buy the same racket,bat,ball,club,spear (javlin)pole, tong (what they use for curling ;-) ), kite, board, powerboat, ski, snowboard, car, truck, lawnmower in fact pretty much no other sport has a bunch of old buffer gits telling you what you can or cannot use to do their chuffing sport..

Just so the money the chiselling mean b**tards spend on their own kit doesn't depreciate.

Can you imagine turning up at the Golf/Tennis club to be told oh no you can't use that, we use wooden rackets, or clubs here... FFS you couldn't write it never mind make it up.



Edited by iGRF - 17 Dec 15 at 5:52pm

This argument is the same old, same old thing going round and round and it will for evermore because for as many people who see sailing (and racing) as a sport at least as many if not more see it as a pastime with a competitive edge.

Originally posted by jeffers Originally posted by ChrisB14 Originally posted by salmon80  There, in a nutshell is dinghy sailings biggest problem. Contender would be about the 10th choice of boat for me but we should all do our bit to support fleets. So your suggestion is that the RYA/ISAF/Whoever provides an official list of four boats (single hander and double hander, hiking, trapeze) and that is what everyone sails? Makes for good, big fleets. But I for one will always prefer sailing the boat I enjoy most. It's a hobby, not a job. ;) And that is why it will not work. I, for one, like the diversity we have in the UK. there are choices if you want to fleet race and choices if you want to sail a boat you like sailing. To have a class dictated to me by the RYA or other would turn me away from sailing in an instant.

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