What is the worlds favourite sailing dinghy?

Hi all,

At school, I have been writing something called an extended project, which is a project about anything you choose, in the form of a question.....one which you answer, so I have chosen to embark on the challenge of (with the help of surveys of course) of what is the world's favourite sailing dinghy?
The survey can be found here:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/87ZG2CT

Many thanks, in advance,

Max

Edited by Max McCarthy - 11 Feb 13 at 5:45pm

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Max McCarthy Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Posting king Joined: 30 Oct 11 Location: West Midlands Online Status: Offline Posts: 104	Post Options Post Reply Quote Max McCarthy Report Post Quote Reply Topic: What is the worlds favourite sailing dinghy? Posted: 10 Feb 13 at 7:29pm
	Hi all, At school, I have been writing something called an extended project, which is a project about anything you choose, in the form of a question.....one which you answer, so I have chosen to embark on the challenge of (with the help of surveys of course) of what is the world's favourite sailing dinghy? The survey can be found here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/87ZG2CT Many thanks, in advance, Max Edited by Max McCarthy - 11 Feb 13 at 5:45pm
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2547 Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 11 Aug 11 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1151	Post Options Post Reply Quote 2547 Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 10 Feb 13 at 7:46pm
	That is a very uk centric view, you have not even listed the most numerous dinghy.

Max McCarthy Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Posting king Joined: 30 Oct 11 Location: West Midlands Online Status: Offline Posts: 104	Post Options Post Reply Quote Max McCarthy Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 10 Feb 13 at 8:04pm
	Sorry - Thank you very much, for the point in the right direction. On a side note, I am English myself, so I have only written about what I have seen. All comments will be gratefully received... Sorry, for missing out the most numerous dinghy - I will amend my essay, and include it, in what I have written. Also there (as you may have seen - in the survey) the option, to select 'other', so if your most favourite dinghy is not included, then you can choose what you want, by writing it in the box. And lastly, this is just a survey for people to choose what their most favourite dinghy is, not one which the feel is the worlds most popular. Perhaps I should have made that clear. Sorry again, and many thanks, Max
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SoggyBadger Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 26 Oct 10 Location: The Wild Wood Online Status: Offline Posts: 552	Post Options Post Reply Quote SoggyBadger Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 10 Feb 13 at 8:23pm
	Hornet on the list? Get a grip on reality Max. There's probably 100s of classes which should come before the Hornet in terms of popularity. It looks more a Max's Favourite Dinghies list than a World's Favourite Dinghies to me Oh and "most favourite" is appallingly bad grammar.
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RS400atC Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 04 Dec 08 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3011	Post Options Post Reply Quote RS400atC Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 10 Feb 13 at 8:45pm
	It's a bit of a duff question. How do I know what the 'world' considers to be its favourite dinghy? Most of the 'world' has zero interest in dinghies so does not really have a favourite. You could say the Hobies or Sunfish are the favourite, in the sense of numbers sold, but OTOH, the 18ft skiff is one of my favourites, although I don't and will never have one.

Max McCarthy Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Posting king Joined: 30 Oct 11 Location: West Midlands Online Status: Offline Posts: 104	Post Options Post Reply Quote Max McCarthy Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 10 Feb 13 at 8:58pm
	Hi SB, Sorry about that, I am not the best at grammar! I should have clarified, these are not a list of my most favourite dinghies, but a list of the dinghies of which I actually know a few facts about....if there are enough 'other' votes for another class, then I plan to learn about that class, and include it in my essay - take an example: I know almost nothing about the sunfish, hence why I didn't include it, however, now people have voted it enough, and talked about it (on here), I plan to put it in my final essay. You see, this is the use of the 'other' part of the survey, so I can learn more about other dinghies, (which didn't cross my mind in the original draft) and put them in the essay. If you see what I mean? Also, although there might not seem it, but there is (at least in my opinion) a difference between 'favourite' and 'popular'. Best wishes, Max
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Max McCarthy Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Posting king Joined: 30 Oct 11 Location: West Midlands Online Status: Offline Posts: 104	Post Options Post Reply Quote Max McCarthy Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 10 Feb 13 at 9:01pm
	Hi RS400atC, The idea is to take what people consider to be their favourite dinghy, not to consider what the world considers to be the worlds favourite dinghy, I apologise as I sadly did not get this message across. And from this, hopefully (rather than from my biased view - as you can probably tell from the options of the survey) take a rather more generalised view of what the world considers its favourite dinghy.... Best wishes, Max
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	The "confusion" might arise thanks to the topic title...
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	Good job Max After all, you did put a box after other for people to put their suggestion in. Done

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	The best dinghy in the world has to be the one that has sold the most so surely its the hobbie 16 that wins hands down
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