The new Laser b**tard

Or why not keep the boat as it is, stop trying to make the laser easier to sail. Sailing is susposed to be challenging and tactical.  The laser is simple enough to be accessible but hard to master, thats why people love it so much. If you want to destroy your boat and make it into some hybrid laser conversion go ahead but I dont suspect youd get many taker around your club or from the 200000 boats sold worldwide. 

Originally posted by kingdacks Sailing is supposed to be challenging and tactical.

I'm sorry, where is that written again?

Two types of people like Lasers.

First type indoctrinated from childhood (most of you lot) in love with the myth of everyone being equal in the 'same' sailboat. Here is the news - you aint - you all are very different sizes and weights and the boat is low volume which means it's weight sensitive so condition dependant some are very more equal than others.

Second type. 'It's cheap I think I'll get into sailing how difficult can it be' hence the hundreds of boats sitting unused in boat parks.

If Laser had done what was necessary a few years back and introduced variants of the original concept which wouldn't have been that difficult, maybe they wouldn't have wasted so much money. Are they going away? This deal with the RS2000 doesn't leave them much to run a business with does it? I can't see lots of new Laser 1's being sold, they'll have the new rig (If that were me I wouldn't sell it separately so if you wanted the new rig you'd have to buy the whole boat which would head off all the chiselling cheap skates)

I'd also have continued to develop this EPS, I can't believe they let it go, there's not a lot wrong with it, nothing that couldn't be modified and improved in the Mk2 version. Oh no I forgot, dinghy class etiquette once you make a boat you can't change it, so it has to die.. You couldn't make it up really could you, how to kill a business...

Edited by iGRF - 16 Jan 13 at 11:15am

I know lots of people who love their Lasers, and not only for the racing - many don't race them. They just like the boat - you can go blasting up and down and have a fun, wet time. However, there are bits they often don't like - the corner, and the rudder. I've seen duck tape round the back corner so the rope slips off (not class legal, but costs pennies, so why not?) and rudders bodged to go further down.

So on theis one page we have summerised;