The Real D-One Thread

Originally posted by Alistair426 Originally posted by rodney First one to tell me what's wrong with the opening image gets a free bottle of Champagne  - over 18 years of age only of course! Rodney So the lack of spinnaker sheets wasn't the 'spot the error' answer then?

Alistair,

Nice try but not what we were looking for!  We may run another competition sometime so best keep any more discrepancies you notice to yourself   I have since spotted a few more but this is after all a representation and not a design drawing.

Rodney

And you don't seem to have the essential list of availiabubble colours on your website...

New recommended PY for D-One!

As some of you will know that we started with a recommended PY of 950 - we always knew that this would be hard to sail to but the last thing we wanted was to be guilty of banditry.  We now have much more information as a result of input from the D-Ones out there in handicap racing and through careful analysis of results we are revising the recommended PY to 971 from 1st January.  This looks about right on a variety of courses, wind and sea conditions.   We will continue to analise results over 2010 and will report how it's going on a regular basis.

Rodney

Originally posted by narc So why can't we discuss how it stacka up to other alternatives? I imagine the performance difference between most Fords and most Ferraris is rather larger than the D1 and the RS100.

Yeah. If I were buying a Ferrari, the salesman would be unapologetic about the price. You want a Ferrari sir, you pay
the price. But then, with a Ferrari you are paying a hell of a lot of money for the badge and the status that
(supposedly) goes with it, and it looks sexy too. Ie, you're buying more than just a collection of components bolted
together so that they go fast.

So the price question can only be answered if you have a criteria in your head of what you think you're buying. Is it
speed, build quality resulting in longevity, build quality resulting in pride of ownership, build quality resulting in
a better sailing experience, better competition, better depreciation etc etc.

As we all have different ideas as to what criteria we consider important, I suspect that the only person who can judge
the value for money of a D1 (or anything else) is the individual concerned.

James;

I think you are trying to make simple comparisons that are unfortunatly meaningless.

I have no idea about the detailed specification of the MPS build; I dont know what grade/type of resin, foams, gel coats, tiecoats, glass & carbon Ovi's are using and I certainly don't know the details of the laminate lay up and then you combine that with the skill of the laminator and you get a boat ... so say two boats are similar in construction because they are glass & epoxy isn't useful; you need the details.