Is this good for One Design Sailing?

Originally posted by Isis Originally posted by feva_sailor Originally posted by Black no sugar Because it provides mild and passing entertainment to the rest of us, trying to work out what you've deleted Might be a repeat, might be daft , might be rude or posted in the wrong thread! (someone even posted a message on the wrong forum once!) oh that was me all of them?

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Originally posted by Black no sugar Because it provides mild and passing entertainment to the rest of us, trying to work out what you've deleted Might be a repeat, might be daft , might be rude or posted in the wrong thread! (someone even posted a message on the wrong forum once!)

oh that was me

(Why doesn't think forum have a "delete" button then? Please ignore.)

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Originally posted by anthonyfca oh I usually blame the parents..

Oh yes, that too. Never even sailed until I was 21. No wonder I'm bitter and twisted. 

Originally posted by Guest#260 JimC - The above just looks like a sweeping anti-SMOD statement. Rick

I don't think its an anti SMOD statement at all. It suggests a regime in which users get a cheaper new purchase price, good second hand values and a lively second hand market to build the class. None of those things are, in my opinion bad things. Quite the opposite. And I don't think I suggested that all SMODs are built and priced like that, but I am suggesting that if they are priced like that it is in no way a bad thing.

A few development boat sailors, and I'm one, have a concern that modern "last for ever" carbon foam boats and gear stifle class growth by making for a very restricted second hand market. Because sailors keep their boats for many years there are few opportunities to enter the class with a reasonable second hand boat, new boats are very high spec and thus expensive, and the cost discourages experimentation.

Over the course of a sailing career I suspect that your sailing will cost you about the same (and the number of months of "top of the fleet boatspeed" will be much the same) if you sell an expensive high spec none SMOD every 6 years or a cheaper lower spec SMOD every three years, but when you look at the total class numbers there will be twice as many of the cheaper boats about...

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