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    Posted: 27 Jan 15 at 10:26am
Absolutely. Kneeling is wrong, wrong and triple wrong.
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What ever it is, it would be good not to have to spend so much time on my knees for the next twenty years, if I can design that bit away it would be cool.
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Originally posted by Do Different

Motor Sports. Of course F1 is always at the forefront but at Club level how much changes? I was at a rally recently and there where more Mk 1 and 2 Escorts going past than anything else.


They are still competitive at that level which is why plus there are a lot of them about. I am sure there will be a 'class' for them as well as battling for overall positions.

We don't really have anything similar in sailing. OK the CVDRA does try to get older boats out and has number for the various 'updates' but it is more of a niche than mainstream really and there are strict criteria.
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Change? What drives it?  I'm all for people voting with their feet but there are theories that propose we do not have anywhere near the free will we think we do. 

I suppose being such an equipment heavy activity the focus on boats and new developments is understandable but is it all a little bit "Emperor's new clothes" ?

What path do other similar pursuits follow? Cycling, rowing or archery & shooting, how dramatic have any changes been and even if they have are the more classic disciplines still popular? 

In Martial Arts it seems to me that the unchanging nature and history is the very attraction.

Motor Sports. Of course F1 is always at the forefront but at Club level how much changes? I was at a rally recently and there where more Mk 1 and 2 Escorts going past than anything else.

I believe I have seen somewhere than horse riding is well up there for participation, not a lot of fundamental changes there.  

What is at the heart of sailing? What we do and who we do it with  or what we use to allow us do it?
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Peter G, if you use a Merlin, you'd better make sure it isn't a sought after design...

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Peter G, if you use a Merlin, you'd better make sure it isn't a sought after design...
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Had a trawl back through rec.boats.racing to see what I was saying 18 years ago, can't manage 20.
Being rude about the 5 tonner, well I was right there. Expressing reservations about asymmetric single handers, suggesting wouldn't work on a Moth, would work on a keelboat and not predicting the changeover.
I do remember predicting the 29er would result in a far greater popularity of high performance boats, clearly I was wrong there.
Also doing some modest spamming of a new single hander...
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Originally posted by PeterG

what will be be sailing?

Twenty years from now I will have been set sail in my dinghy, which have burnt brightly for my Viking funeral. That does mean that I should probably change to something wooden between now and then, or an awful lot of nasty toxic fumes are going to be released. I think I'd go for something with a bit of class, an old Merlin or a Salcombe Yawl perhaps?
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Originally posted by MerlinMags

Match racing will die out, and elements of early naval warfare will be introduced instead: each America's Cup yacht will have 14 cannon and you can blow away the opponents spars/foils/sails as desired, if you can't keep ahead.


A bit like "Lego Racers" but for boats? Sounds good!
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