Top dog

 

Which ones in addition to the Scorpions & Merlins?

Steve Cockerill normally racks up a few each year; 2007 x 5 = RS300, Laser Radial, Streaker, Graduate, Rooster 8.1. Granted some of them may not be compared to say Merlins/Solos in depth of competition.

He can't be top anything if I've never even heard of him...

And anyway sailing has never been about 'top dogs' it's arrogant enough that silly little groups of a dozen or so wooden things sailing on a pond decide that they have produced a 'National Champion' when the population of the nation is upwards of 60 million, I always found that a little absurd, Class Champion should have been the title. Don't even start me on the European and World moniker from 60 boats most of whom are Brits.

So whoever this 'Taxi' is, it's meaningless bollox unless he gets to be in the Olympic glare, where there is at least some representation and competition that is at least testing, not I might add are they anything like as skilled as sailors of old, fit maybe, with access to nutricians, psychologists, masseurs and training regimes, but skilled sailors? Nope, sorry, nothing like the level that used to exist in the past.