Silver Dream racer article

Originally posted by craiggo Trotting out the busy life, no time for hobbies excuse is simply that, an excuse.

Originally posted by craiggo And that is horse-sh*t Trotting out the busy life, no time for hobbies excuse is simply that, an excuse. The issue is that larger disposable income means that people are having a go at everything rather than getting into one sport and sticking with it. People's addiction to electronic gadgets is also sucking away their free time. It's ironic that the very devices designed to make life more efficient have actually had the opposite effect and now sucks people in to almost constant checking of social media. For any times readers out there, how many spotted yesterday's article on the hiring of cleaners and the number of young people or low earners who stated they simply couldn't be arsed to clean their homes and would happily pay others to do it for them. These same people would certainly find sailing too much of a chore. I find it a sad state of affairs and certainly not a lifestyle I'd want my kids to aspire to.

It is interesting, and I am inclined to agree that we have become more addicted to digital information in the same way that a smoker would be addicted to a cigarette. That in my mind adds up as a time waster. I also agree that people are flirting with doing more activities to a mediocre level rather than one or two well. Generationally, we or people in their 20s now are supposed to be lazier and feel more entitlement. I can't say I disagree with that from what I see around me. There could be some theory to say that with the increase in globalisation, we have to work more to keep pace with the hungrier more industrious emerging economies, but I just think that even compared to a decade ago, what people expect compared to what they are prepared to work or sacrifice is that much greater. Plus people place more importance or value on "status" related luxuries. People my age or younger would be far more likely to p!ss £300 a month i.e. a very healthy slice of disposable in anyone's money on a new Audi on the drip, whereas in the same position those of our parents generation would save the money.
By the same token, people are cottoning onto the fact that, unless you are on minimum wage, it is more financially efficient to, say, work for an extra hour a week and pay someone to clean your house for 2 hours and be cost neutral. I.e. outsourcing anything but your revenue generation. Not sure how healthy that is mind!!

I appreciate that it is simplistic but equally I dare say there are people, particularly but not exclusively teens who spend literally hour upon hour on social media. Accept that there are and always have been ways to waste time, not all of them bad.
here here to the 3 day weekend trouble is that capitalism means that some bright spark will work 5 days a week and "get ahead."

Insert five letter word (plural) of your choice Daniel

The same kids were on megadrives when we were kids mate, and let's not even start on the spoddyt**ts that used to take PCs to each other's parents houses and play 'network' Doom... At least the internet means they're now all locked behind their bedroom doors using fibre connections for CoD and ladyboy porn.

Originally posted by Dougaldog BUt - thinking aloud here....Flying 15? That cannot be the answer, launched by car or not. Although people from the 15 fleet will start leaping up and down in indignation, this is not a fleet that is showing rapid development or expansion. Weight...with or without a car - is not the way forward for dinghy sailing. (The Contender) hull could do with a Supernova like 20% weight reduction. So 30 years or more ago I was helping a well known builder of contenders when he was making a boat for a World Champion hopeful - even with the maximum amount of correctors the boat was still significantly underweight! We ended up pouring resin in under the cockpit floor to bring the boat up to the measurement weight.  Does it make sense, as I said in the article, to be building boats at one weight when they could easily be lighter - or worse, building them and then making them heavy again.