Solo changes survey

Don't ever seem to have an issue with the outhaul on my phantom david. 

Cost is certainly an issue. On P&B the SS ali boom is £172 and the Phantom carbon SS is £580.

Mast wise, the Solo tapered is £707 whereas the Phantom cheapest is £1700. 

Bearing those sorts of costs in mind, what is the point of change? You ain't going to magic up a huge performance increase that is justified by that sort of price increase. 

No, I didn't miss the point. Probably we are just coming from different angles. I tend to look at the boat's basic design more; things like hull rocker, bow angles, overall configuration and style, leach outline and other aspects of rig design, etc.  If you're looking at an older class like Solo, your BM, and plenty of my own classes from that angle, no amount of updating is going to disguise the fact that the basic design came from decades ago. Even if you got someone to make a full carbon BM, Solo, Laser or Tasar and gave it leading-edge 2019 spars, fittings and sails it still wouldn't alter the fact that they are now old designs and look "out of date" from some points of view because of the age of their hull design. Even a Bladerider foiling Moth or a 2015 foiling A Class looks "out of date" in some ways, and no amount of small modification is going to change that.

BUT let me make it clear, I don't think there is a single thing wrong with being "out of date". It's a bit like a masterpiece of classical art or architecture or a classic car; the fact that something was designed years ago does not make it inferior. A boat like yours seems to achieve its purpose brilliantly and the fact that its basic design clearly shows its age does nothing to affect that.