my boat is better than your boat

So you got out in the end then James, i left before you'd had chance to go out. I have to say it looked sweet, even with the wings layed across the top of it cos the cover had only just come off!

OK TT has was it for you today. Did you get sailing on the Black Beast???

And if yes - how many capsizes?

Must say I am jealous and IF I was to choose between the 700 and the MPS it would have to be the MPS.

I have got a black stealthy looking hull with black foils for some reason, and some black progrip on the deck, so looks like i've joined TT on the dark side, and its good!

I heard in in the Dinghy Show this year, from Chris Somners, Contender builder. He reckons that yellow hulls are slower than other colours.

I can't tell; the only yellow Contender I know of is a composite thinghy GBR280, that makes it only just younger than mine. Difficult to judge

When it comes to controls colours, my boat is a dazzling array of rainbow hues.
Blue trapeze rope, you know that, but also red elastics, white/speckled red kicker, pink downhaul, blue/green outhaul, blue handle to pull the centreboard DOWN, red handle to bring the centreboard UP and that wishy-washy shade of white for the big rope that sticks out from the deck. Only last year, I didn't have a clue what most of them were for! Now when I capsize, I sometimes can tell why - that's progress... 

Edited by Black no sugar

.......or is it Cool.....this modern jargon, anyway, I like it.