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Originally posted by iGRF At the time of launching the Alto, as is the case pretty much today, the only act in town is to race according to the Portsmouth Handicap, so if you want to rig the demise of a particular craft, like the Alto, or the Icon, you simply rig it with an un attainable handicap. The PYAG killed the Alto, absolutely and unequivocably. As they later went on to rig the demise of the Icon. I've said it before, I'll say it again, that committee, group, whatever, they are one of two things, both of them un productive.

Originally posted by eric_c   The Alto was doomed as a PY boat, because it did not fit into a suitable category. IIRC one blitzed everything at Camel Week one year when conditions suited, but every other outing ended in whining about PY?

Well if what y'all think is true, then why is the opposite the case? Classes with benevolent handicaps, the Laser rigged to swell the Great Lakes ranks to the point that one absurdly won one year, the Phantom in it's early lipstick days until they spotted success and immediately stomped on it, the Blaze a little more subtley but still a Bandit in certain conditions and hands, the Wayfarer, do I have to continue?

The market for new boats bless them, love a percieved advantage, take that away and you can be the marketing genius of all time you still won't succeed with a new boat. Even now, the Aero 7? 1065? really, no RS fanboys on that oh so not transparent PYAG? It's bent, as long as there is human decision making it will ever be so.

The D Zero was so f**ked by them, can't have those dirty Europeans succeeding in our market, (and it wasn't the handicap in my case, it was that little sticky up thing on the bottom and bad handling at the waters edge at the demo, nothing to grab hold of)The D Zero on inland water is twice the boat an Aero is, the Rig, three times better, but they stomped on it, there is no actual consideration for wether the boat is actually not a bad thing to have, no, it might hurt my class so it has to go, and that is the pathetic mindset that is oh so prevalent and why that damned committee should be disbanded and replaced with a computer.

Finally as I'm in full rant, the other thing you, we, lack? A decent f**king magazine that calls it for us, tests boats, tells it as it is, not that one could ever exists since at some time or other all the advertisers would be peeved.

Edited by iGRF - 14 Mar 22 at 11:14am

Originally posted by iGRF Finally as I'm in full rant, the other thing you, we, lack? A decent f**king magazine that calls it for us, tests boats, tells it as it is, not that one could ever exists since at some time or other all the advertisers would be peeved.

Yay, Davidyacht had it right! It isn't just that magazine's are 'so last century' but when one looks at what we can do now on Y&Y.com, where  we can add video, interviews and so much more, it just make sense to do it like this now. As a wordscribe who used to write for the magazines (plural), I'd get to 1,000 words and the editor was already saying "you can stop now".... grovel a bit and I might get 1,200 words but at the expense of pictures.  My 'Fear of Flying' or 'The Greed for Speed'  on this site ran to 4,000 words plus 20 pictures - so you get more of the story, the detail and the background.