What we really sail

Very telling from the Dinghy show 7 decades talk yesterday no significant double handed boats have made an impact for twenty years

These are from a couple of years back but I don’t think too much has changed.
First one shows the number people sailing different classes (on a log scale) - green are double handlers, blue single handlers. What surprised me was that although single handers are more popular, double handers get more people sailing (except for the Laser). Last pic shows that generally fast boats had (in 2018) a reduction in PY, slow boats an increase.
Second one shows the exponential increase in popularity of classes.

That’s very odd, interesting to see / know if suddenly a number of clubs stopped doing returns reduced and a second axis with number of clubs returning. 

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Originally posted by tink That’s very odd, interesting to see / know if suddenly a number of clubs stopped doing returns reduced and a second axis with number of clubs returning.  The supanova always intrigues me the association and Hartley’s are clearly working hard but the odd thing is all second hand mk II are always £4250 +/- a few hundred