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    Posted: 19 Jan 13 at 7:32am
Yeah you can do that too - I still enjoy remembering the look on the face of the Blaze at our club when we overtook him after 125 minutes racing with all 4 on board!
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If your club (or you) have any Facebook pages, websites, favourites, bookmarks etc (on your PC or phones!) that point to the old Laser2000.org.uk address, please can you change them / ask the webmaster to change them to point to the new website address of: www.2000class.org

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So what will now happen to the laser asymetric regattas?  We have had some good meetings with 2000s, 3000s, 4000s, 5000s plus Vagos and Vortexes too.  In fact there's already one planned at Grafham this summer.

Are RS going to suck the 2000 away to their massive RS only events?
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well the 2000s are still listed as part of the laser multiclass at Grafham, both on the Grafham site and the class site.

Edited by winging it - 30 Jan 13 at 8:53pm
the same, but different...

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Originally posted by laser47

I don't expect anything groundbreaking to come in the way of marketing/promotion for the class for a bit. Their new Sales and Marketing person is preggers and apparently suffering from bad enough morning sickness that she couldn't make the AGM at HLSTC where she is a trustee.  
 
This is not particulalry relevant as the RS Association set-up and run the events, not RS the manufacturer.  The 2000 CA appear to have decided to be independant, so I should imagine unless they change their mind nothing will happen in terms of joining in any of the RS events.
 
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Originally posted by winging it


well the 2000s are still listed as part of the laser multiclass at Grafham, both on the Grafham site and the class site.

How many of the Laser multi-class event at Grafham are actually still "Lasers"?
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I would have thought the "laser" multi class event is run by the class associations that have almost nothing to do with the manufactuers.
 
Whereas most of the RS classes have very close links between the manufacturers and the class association.
 
The 2000 class has decided to remain as an independent clss association so can join any event they wish or are invited to.  
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Laser were helpful in the early days of the event.

And why not? They must have benefited from the exposure of their name even if they didn't sell the boats any more  - just as Ford sold Cortinas and other boring fodder on the back of their Le Mans & F1 successes back in the day.
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