Icon Class Association

Gentlemen .. and the rest of you. 

Some of you who earlier professed not to promote 'opinions' are now in fact doing just that.  I'll join in there but you state we need more numbers...

So why not help out in a practical way  ? .... take an Icon for a few weeks and race it yourself .. at your club, against  the boats you know already and on the bits of water you sail on.   Some of you should be very able to sail the boat to its potential - so why not simply do so ?

If 969 is a reasonable average number quite a few should be achieving figures 30 or 40 point below on a regular basis and  others, at worst if the distribution is fairly standard, 30 or 40 points the other way.   I'm saying that both as a builder .. and as a regular club sailor.

And for the record you should never get into any class because of the handicap imo..  If you sail Icon and 'buy into' the concept you will enjoy the boat for what it is ... 

Mike L.



  


Edited by blaze720 - 09 Apr 14 at 1:09pm

Originally posted by blaze720 And for the record you should never get into any class because of the handicap imo...

Edited by kneewrecker - 09 Apr 14 at 2:06pm

Originally posted by JimC Handicaps can and will change, so its pretty foolish buying a boat because of is handicap.

Edited by kneewrecker - 09 Apr 14 at 2:27pm

Originally posted by blaze720 If 969 is a reasonable average number

In a club of RS500 trapezed boats on Open water rated at 975, now I'm not one to advocate folk buying something because it's a bandit and they'll get unfair advantage, but I'm certainly never going to advocate the opposite, you're job should be getting some half decent lawyer to put an end to all this. Send them some legal missive, or threat of it, that will make someones eyes water, that's your job as the manufacturer and person tasked with marketing it and protecting your customer base, not ego tripping it around some puddle potentially causing this issue, if I might be as bold, given the whole thing has made me very mad indeed now my crew has recovered to the point we could have owned one, but certainly not now.
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Edited by iGRF - 09 Apr 14 at 2:44pm

Originally posted by Rupert What happens next?

A fact based system across the entire board, not the random thing you have at the moment which 'targets' contentious puddle hoppers.. whilst ignoring the coast and older classes..

Manufacturers bear all the risk and should have the right and ability to design to and target a particular performance rating, without having some ill informed buffer or malgorthym software based screw up damaging the companies profitability and rendering customers investments as worthless.


Edited by iGRF - 09 Apr 14 at 2:55pm