Ex-laser 2000, now '2000'

We're assuming it was sold are we?  For anything more than a peppercorn rate of course?  

A business can have a fantastic product, but if the brand lacks clout from misaligned values, or is burdened as a debt vehicle by a highly complex corporate/shell infrastructure that spends more time with legal counsel than out there demoing its wares with its target market, then frankly the fantastic product doesn't stand chance.

Hardly short term, Laser Performance have been 'struggling' for at least 18 months if not 2 years.....

I think it is a good think for the class. I have some great memories of sailing one in a F6 at Plas Menai with one of their instructors. Awesome ride hopping down the short chop and not too hard to get back upwind either.

And the day at Hunts in similar winds where the person I was crewing for wimped out so her husband stepped in, he is 17 stone, I am 13.5, we flew round the course (and the next week his wife gave it a go and we both enjoyed it).

No problem, as long as I can get a day pass!

 

Maybe the current (Laser) moulds were ready for replacement, and LPE were unwilling/unable to invest in replacement tooling, hence LPE relinquishing the licence to build.

inevitably... even if they build them with NASA grade precision to the Laser originals... you can always rely on human nature to 'spot a difference'.

Either way, such discussion hasn't phased classes like the Blaze from going from strength to strength- and they've even used new build materials to sympathetically modernise the class whilst retaining a one-design ethos.  

I hope RS aren't too conservative... the boat is nice, but if there's the odd improvement that can be made then I believe anyone ponying-up new boat money deserves to have the best RS can do for them like any other RS customer would expect.