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    Posted: 18 Aug 08 at 7:56pm

Originally posted by Lukepiewalker

And I'm not sure you can say ben had an equipment advantage either...

Equipment advantage was probably the wrong thing to say, what I meant was Ben would have developed the rig to suit his sailing style and had a choice of boat to take, which would have contributed in an admittedly small way to his success, compared to the Lasers which cannot do any rig or boat development as part of their campaign
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Apparently, he ended up using the same hull as last time. His light wind sail would have been a special job, but I suspect the one he used in the medal race not so far off the off the shelf stuff from North, certainly looked like a 'normal' Technora cloth.
He uses Wilke masts, so while off the shelf isn't quite the right word as the bend would be tailored to requirements, still a publicly available (if not so cheap) mast.


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Surely they all had the equipment developed to suit their own sailing styles, so no actual advantage, just no disadvantage. In the conditions they have had, it must have been 99.5% down to the sailor.
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who cares who used what? no one will remember this stuff, trends come and go

... oh..............and Goodison just won gold!!


that, and the fact Ben also won in his class, will be remembered for some time and certainly long after who used what sail/mast combo!
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Nice one Goody!

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There is going to be a big party in Weymouth !!!!!!
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Is that an inviatation for all members of the Y & Y comunity?

 
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Yep yep, all welcome Smile

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Watching the race again on iPlayer- I'm surely not the only one deeply disturbed by the Slovenian's speedoes?
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just imagine what he wears on the beach...
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