The RS100 Owners Thread

And Jim's right, we have an inbuilt desire to pimp our own classes... for me it's utterly Machiavellian, I want to encourage others so I have someone else to race against and I want to protect my investment- especially on something so new without an established critical mass, then yep, I'd go to more effort and get stuck in where I can.  (With the Solo it's easy.  As long as others keep sailing, especially club racing, then there's a damn good chance they'll end up in a Solo anyway.)

I'm sure a psychologist would add some group theories as well; sense of belonging, tribalism, seeking validation from others approval etc but as Mark Twain said, 'A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval', so at the end of the day, when the RS100 just didn't stack up for us, we simply sold them on- hopefully to someone who it would work out better for.

It's hardly a damning inditement on a highly physical boat, that actually, it was all just a bit too much like hard work for a short reward.  An entire industry is built in the Alps on lifts and cable cars to take people up the hill.  Much as it's great fun to ski or board back down again, not many of us would bother if we had to trudge up the mountain each time to do it.     

or here's another solution- enough power to weight to make the uphill (almost) as much fun    (just need to add stabilisers for muppets)