New women's Olympic boat

Many of the olympic boats are expensive and relatively unexciting and thus not popular.  The Laser has to be better than a Finn from many points of view, the Star is disproportionately expensive for its performance and there has to be a more exciting boat for good sailors than the Yingling.  The Tornado may be the fastest cat but I'm sure a new design could be faster and cheaper.  The Europe was a lovely boat but for olympic competitors hugely expensive with some sailors going through a dozen masts and scores of sails to get that extra bit of performance.  And why do we have different classes for women and men when heavy weight can be such a disadvantage in many classes.

Men and women should compete on equal terms in modern, one design classes.  The cat should be a Hobie Tiger, the skiff should be a 49er, the single hander should be a Laser Radial and the board should be a RSX, forget all the rest but if you must have a keel boat it should be a SB3.  If you must have a conventional dinghy then the 470 is about OK for olympic athletes of either sex.

Not weird at all then....

The opinion I see emerging here is that most of the boats people want to see are single handers or asymmetric,which is fine by me but,

Should we be dropping conventional spinnakers for asymmetric.Personally I think we should always have a conventional spinnaker in the Olympics.The 470 is the perfect boat for that.

(And I only sail asymmetrics )

Why not replace the Yngling with the 79er (please note I do not work for Ovi, I just like their boats!!!)

Another point is RS boats do not really feature that much outside the UK, so would not be a good choice from the international perspective, unless LDC changed their marketing strategy...