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    Posted: 18 Aug 14 at 10:37am
Originally posted by kneewrecker

Jim you could look to the Olympic Singlehanded Skiff Project as a bit of an indicator, it might have had its heyday now (thanks to Mothing) but the MPS has served a good round of high performance singlehanded sailing for a good while now, and as prices drop, it certainly could have a solid 'second life' in the 2-4k price bracket.

Thanks for giving the OSP now known as the Musto Skiff a mention.

As regards to "it might have had its heyday" I'd just like to correct that as we are continuing to grow.

In fact our most recent World Championships saw a record turn out of 105 boats and we have just held our UK Nationals with a good turn out of 58 boats so we are still on the up.

The Musto Skiff offers high-performance sailing with a very low cost of ownership and provides sailors with identical equipment providing a level playing field with an easy to own package; combine that with a friendly and helpful atmosphere in the fleet and that is why we continue to grow.

The class was born from a response to the ISAF brief in 2000 for a new single hander. The boat comprehensively "won" the trials but ISAF decided to stick with the existing equipment.

Each year we survey the members about presenting the class for Olympic consideration and the level of support for this from the sailors has dropped each year to the present low of 22%. Clearly most owners prefer to stay away from the Olympic circus.

You can read more about the history and the 2000 trials here:


and the report on the test event here:


Well worth a read and the table at the bottom is quite interesting.

You will see things have moved on in 14 years and what once seemed difficult is now being achieved by weekend warriors every weekend around the world ...



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IMO the Laser has suffered from the 'wannabe-Olympic' curse. I stopped going to the nationals/Q's about four years ago when it had become sufficiently apparent that they had turned into Radial events with a standard fleet start added on. You cant blame the UKLA, the Radials bring in the numbers and I have to say the events have always been very well organised, but when you drive half way across the country and spend £100 or more on entries/accom then find no-one is interested in talking to you (let alone socialising) after racing because you are over 21 and it is seen as a bit uncool, the appeal is lost.



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Originally posted by rhorn78

IMO the Laser has suffered from the 'wannabe-Olympic' curse. I stopped going to the nationals/Q's about four years ago when it had become sufficiently apparent that they had turned into Radial events with a standard fleet start added on. You cant blame the UKLA, the Radials bring in the numbers and I have to say the events have always been very well organised, but when you drive half way across the country and spend £100 or more on entries/accom then find no-one is interested in talking to you (let alone socialising) after racing because you are over 21 and it is seen as a bit uncool, the appeal is lost.


I think that highlights the importance of the camaraderie within the fleet and the social aspect of an event.
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Maybe the standard fleet should be split off from the Radials. But the trouble then is that you lose female participants, which is also bad for turnouts.

One solution might be no under 18s or under 21s, but that's a *horrible* precedent and I hate the idea. Glad I'm not on the Laser CA. I imagine the reason why they don't seem to have done much to address the problem is that they can't think of a satisfactory way of doing it. Neither can I!

Maybe they need to introduce, I dunno, a "trainee master" category to the master events so that its 25 and up?

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