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5420 
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 Topic: Future Olympic Classes?Posted: 04 Apr 05 at 6:13pm |
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hay what about a lady cat may be the hoby 16
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Bruce Starbuck
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Posted: 05 Apr 05 at 7:38pm |
Why indeed! Maybe if you'd chosen to work on your boat-handling and racing skills in the 470, you might have got somewhere. Are you trying to suggest that Nick and Joe won their silvers because they had the second-best funded equipment development programme? Let me tell you, they won their silvers because they were the second best sailors that week. They were the second best sailors because they have dedicated so many years to practising their sailing skills. The Americans just sailed a better regatta that week. There is virtually no significant equipment development taking place in the 470 class these days. Any development that is taking place is not very expensive; incremental tweeks to sail shapes etc. It is as one-design as any other class, in that any differences in equipment are absolutely swamped by differences in sailing skill. To suggest that it is an arms race is a slur on the class and on the sailors who are doing well in the class at the moment.
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5420
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Posted: 05 Apr 05 at 8:16pm |
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yes but you have to have a bit of develoment to keep the class at the top of what is avalble to sail but also you dont want an arms race that makes it unfaier it is a fin line
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Dead Air
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Posted: 06 Apr 05 at 5:52am |
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How about the B14? ISAF registered international class, make it the open boat, as 150kg give or take seems the right amount of crew weight so girls and boys can compete fairly. Then make the 49er the mens double hander, no offence but I have't seen many female crews take to the water in it! |
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5420
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Posted: 06 Apr 05 at 7:51am |
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i have seen a female crew in a 49er for the b14 just mack it a female class because all the men will sail the 49er any way and that all so means that then you will have a lady skiff which is somehting we do not have at the moment |
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Granite
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Posted: 06 Apr 05 at 1:22pm |
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For the mixed class what about having a double hander where you have to have a mixed crew? Its what they do in other sports e.g. squash
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If it doesn't break it's too heavy; if it does it wasn't built right
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KnightMare
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Posted: 06 Apr 05 at 5:05pm |
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Yeah actualy that does sound like a good idea. |
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carshalton fc
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Posted: 06 Apr 05 at 5:07pm |
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yer and that would bring some good entertainment into the sport!! but what boat would they use?
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International 14 1503
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elmo
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Posted: 06 Apr 05 at 6:25pm |
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"How about the B14? ISAF registered international class, make it the open boat, as 150kg give or take seems the right amount of crew weight so girls and boys can compete fairly." Erm how many girls would you like to fit in this boat? As someone fully grown at 55kg, it annoys me that there is very little space in olympic boats for me, who i consider to be a fairly average sized female. With the laser radial as the new single hander, you have to be quite a big girl to get anywhere! Not that I am ever capable of getting to the olympics, but I feel that it shoudl be open to me if I actually had any talent. Make a boat in the olympics for little people, that 29er X if it ever gets anywhere might be the right sort of thing. |
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Guest
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Posted: 06 Apr 05 at 6:54pm |
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This comment may not be very PC but why do you think the womens beach volley ball is on the TV a lot but there is very little coverage of womens shot putting? We need boats that normal sized women can sail and look glam in for the media. Probably get shot down in flames for this post but it's reality ... Rick |
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