Ovington Laser

That was my thought too . 

I could be wrong , I often am but I have seen no evidence that the radial sails and carbonish top masts make a noticeable difference to laser/ILCA boat speed . 

Edited by Grumpycat - 03 Oct 20 at 9:51pm

Will be interesting to see what PY committee comes up with, when Laser and ILCA results start to come in?

Well, it's been my experience that 'rival' associations 'set up' to challenge whatever the particular status quo happens to be in place, rarely if ever succeed and definitely have no bearing in the reality of grass roots membership. At the end of the day at our level (club racers) we're just going to race anything that is vaguely Laser shaped as long as its cheap enough. What goes on in the atmospheric world of international competition other than the trickle down cheap hulls, nobody either bothers to know or even care about. So there never is going to be a 'right' or 'wrong' Laser, there are just going to be cheap or expensive and only one of them is going to win out.

Originally posted by iGRF Thanks Jim, so TLC, is that a rogue organisation set up by the previous incumbents of Laser Production? .

Its awfully hard to separate fact, fiction and propaganda, but my impression is that there was a faction in ILCA and the Italian Laser Association that strongly disagreed with dumping Laser Performance LLC, and its that faction that has set up this organisation. Those folks are presumably the ones who had the closest ties with the Laser Performance companies, and LP were doubtless happy to assist them.

There's a lot of complicated history. One is that there have, I understand, recently been big disagreements within the Italian Laser CA which involved the long standing CA being unrecognised by the Italian National authority and being replaced by a new Association that was set up in competition. Another is that Laser Performance fairly recently had a big row with the International Sunfish Class Association (LP build the Sunfish) and set up an alternate Sunfish Assoc on the lines of TLC, but that was abandoned when they made up relations with the real Sunfish CA.