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yellowwelly 
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 Topic: Dinghy popularityPosted: 05 Jul 13 at 1:38pm |
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I do agree with you, and I'm not suggesting superlight weight construction at all. But having pulled a L2K around (on my own) once, I did think, gawd... does it need to be quite this heavy? Would shaving 20 -30, maybe 40 kags off it thorough a Mk2 project make a difference? I believe a modest improvement could be good.
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transient
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Posted: 05 Jul 13 at 1:41pm |
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....and as I said earlier, as soon as a boat gets the tag "Beginners Boat" no individual would touch it with a barge pole.
....can you imaging the derision it would receive either here or on SA.
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yellowwelly
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Posted: 05 Jul 13 at 1:59pm |
not for much longer...  Edited by yellowwelly - 05 Jul 13 at 2:00pm |
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RS400atC
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Posted: 05 Jul 13 at 2:04pm |
Indeed, perhaps what we need is aspirational boats, and a pathway toward them? Or perhaps we are going about this the wrong way altogether? Perhaps we need inspirational events, not equipment. People talk about 'riding from London to Brighton' or 'doing the London Marathon' they don't talk about 'riding my raleigh' or 'running in my Nikes'. In yachts, people clearly want to take part in the RTI, most of them don't appear too fussy about what in. |
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Rupert
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Posted: 05 Jul 13 at 2:05pm |
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The dinghy boom was driven by "beginner's boats". The Mirror, the GP14 - just the first 2 to spring to mind - could take you from 1st steps to racing at the very highest level against the best sailors in the country, and even have international competition. The odd thing is, they still can, but they are now unfashionable, and so beginners are not encouraged to sail them. Can any "recently designed" class which they are now encouraged to sail do the same?As far as I can see, the only newish 2 person adult class where you can both learn to sail in comfort and then go race to a high standard is the 2000. The RS 200 and 400 are not for a first time sailor, and none of the bigger rotomoulded boats have a proper race circuit, as far as I'm aware.
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Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686
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transient
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Posted: 05 Jul 13 at 2:36pm |
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The Mirror and the like (me thinks) had the dominant tag "Cheap and easy to build" or a "Boat for the lower classes". Some probably viewed them as beginners boats but the movement was driven by a social revolution, those boats had the weight of an uprising behind them, nothing like that will happen soon......Crikey we even had a breakaway SC down this neck of the woods call Artisans SC.
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Andymac
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Posted: 05 Jul 13 at 2:44pm |
You're lucky then, if you always stick to the same colour scheme, your wife need never know that you've spent more money on another new boat!
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yellowwelly
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Posted: 05 Jul 13 at 2:44pm |
haha... the google story is interesting... 'jackets and ties in the yacht club bar' mentality got a rude awakening then.  back in the good ol' days:  |
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Rupert
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Posted: 05 Jul 13 at 3:03pm |
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Maybe sailing is less popular because we no longer have to wear giant yellow lifejackets with matching yellow waterproofs?
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Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686
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transient
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Posted: 05 Jul 13 at 3:10pm |
They are rather fetching aren't they  During the boom years of dinghy sailing the skilled "Artisans" found themselves with more money and time......Nowadays they have less time and money. I don't think a "Beginners boat" will sort it. I do think GRFs boat bimbling is interesting though.....bit confused on his views on jib sag though, the ability to move the centre of draft seems seems handy to me Edited by transient - 05 Jul 13 at 3:15pm |
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