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   lol even a laser is important to tune...if the controls are all on wrong for the conditions, your screwed!

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Wave Rider Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 27 Oct 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 909	Post Options Post Reply Quote Wave Rider Report Post Quote Reply Topic: New Smilies Posted: 20 Jan 06 at 7:50pm
	lol even a laser is important to tune...if the controls are all on wrong for the conditions, your screwed!
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Black no sugar Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 04 Dec 04 Location: Somewhere between Brighton and Lancing Online Status: Offline Posts: 3941	Post Options Post Reply Quote Black no sugar Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 18 Jan 06 at 11:43pm
	Nah, he must be sailing a Laser: in another thread not so long ago, we were told you can't tune a Laser. (don't ask me, I don't know, I'm not musical)
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Jack Sparrow Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 08 Feb 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2965	Post Options Post Reply Quote Jack Sparrow Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 18 Jan 06 at 9:38pm
	[QUOTE=Harry44981!] but I suppose it depends on whether tuning is a part of sailing skill [/ QUOTE] I should hope so! What are you sailing.... a computer game?
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Isis Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 01 Sep 05 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2753	Post Options Post Reply Quote Isis Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 18 Jan 06 at 5:46pm
	Yeah stop hijacking my thread! I think most development classes would reject olympic selection nowadays, Just look at all the hastle the europes got about their 'development' and think about what would happen in an open rules class. It would drive the class well out of the reach of ordinary sailors and probibly limit the competition to the countries with the most funding

Black no sugar Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 04 Dec 04 Location: Somewhere between Brighton and Lancing Online Status: Offline Posts: 3941	Post Options Post Reply Quote Black no sugar Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 18 Jan 06 at 7:44am
	I must protest! This thread is being hijacked by serious debate!! Come on, it started as a lightweight exchange of inconsequential chit-chat and it gets invaded by yet another version of SMOD vs development! Please!! Going back to the original topic, here's one of my favourite - I use it a lot on MSN:
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49erGBR735HSC Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 30 Mar 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1991	Post Options Post Reply Quote 49erGBR735HSC Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 18 Jan 06 at 4:13am
	The SMOD VS Development classses argument is pointless...... I would be sailing my boat irrespective of which category it falls under, I choose my boats because they are really what I want to sail.
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Jamie Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Posting king Joined: 12 Jul 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 164	Post Options Post Reply Quote Jamie Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 18 Jan 06 at 4:09am
	The problem with putting an all out development class in the olympics would be the sheer amount of money spent. People would end up having several differtent hulls and masses of rigs and having to pick them for each event dependant on prevailing conditions. It would ruin the appeal of a development class for the ordinary sailor.
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Prince Buster Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 15 Dec 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1146	Post Options Post Reply Quote Prince Buster Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 17 Jan 06 at 10:11pm
	Yeah i suppose off the water skill is important too. Hey do you think a restricted class could become an olympic class. Cherubs (or Southern Hemisphere equivalents) in the olympics? Would it work?
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Harry44981! Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 26 Aug 04 Online Status: Offline Posts: 736	Post Options Post Reply Quote Harry44981! Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 17 Jan 06 at 10:08pm
	Gives you something to hide behind when you loose though- Andy Rice has said some interesting stuff about that in his coloumn. Personally I think SMOD's give a truer reflection of the better sailor, but I suppose it depends on whether tuning is a part of sailing skill

Isis Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 01 Sep 05 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2753	Post Options Post Reply Quote Isis Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 17 Jan 06 at 9:14pm
	Development classes tend to work on the ethos that its not only performance on the water that counts, but also performance off the water. Setting up the boat, and in some cases designing and building it is all part of the challenge and as such when someone wins 'because of a better boat' as you suggest, it is often a better boat because the winner has spent many hours making it that way, aswell as sailing it well. In some classes people buy the best kit available without depeloping it themselves which leads to a certain level of 'cheaquebook sailing' but even when this is the case it still takes many hours on the water to tune all the new kit so its not as simple as those with the biggest wallets will win regardless of skill.