Wood or GRP?

Originally posted by iGRF Well I read it all, kept biting my tongue and hands off the keyboard as the usual suspects flogged the dead solo and tried to polute a young mind with wood bothering, but I'm going to seriously suggest something else if you want to clear his head ready to return to the pursuit of Olympic glory later down the path, I'm going to suggest you let him have a bash at Racing Sailboards, he sounds like he's the right build, they aint expensive, they are fun and he'll learn wind awareness that becomes totally instinctive beyond anything he'll pick up in a dinghy, he'll also have to get a bit fitter. Then when he returns to what is it he'll go into a Laser? It'll be with a new awareness of what he's dealing with, he already has all that stuff I don't, the rope and wiggle stick control, if he then gets the senses you pick up from the sort of 'hands on' no compass, no telltale use your senses only sailing you have to learn on a sailboard I'm sure he'll end up a better sailor for it.. Just a left field thought, other than that I think what you're doing with him is a good idea, all that squad system does is mess with their heads and creates a pecking order that becomes difficult to break.

The trouble with OK is that they look horrid, but a couple of years ago I watched a menagerie pursuit race at Glossop in absolute survival conditions. Ist, very, very good Javelin, 2nd, OK, 3rd and 4th, Byte C2......no other finishers but lots of wreckage. The Ok never went in, it stood on its'ear but rolled back up again. Impressive.

Originally posted by Bootscooter See, I've always thought they look gorgeous.  Tough boats to sail, physically and technically demanding, I loved my old one.

You're spot on there Boots

Especially the one that is now sat out the back!

In my class, GP14s, I think it would have to be wood.