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423zero ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 08 Jan 15 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 3420 |
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Iiticki, no need to stop posting, iGRF gets worse abuse than this on a daily basis.
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rich96 ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 20 Jan 05 Online Status: Offline Posts: 596 |
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Wow - all this dredged up bile again - I only started the tread to say how surprised I was about the tiny number of boats at the National !
Its really not necessary to go over it all again - the Laser competition, racing numbers, accessibility etc etc etc speak for themselves. |
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Chris 249 ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 10 May 04 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2041 |
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Surely it's simple - if you want to call people "misguided" and "backwards looking" then you cannot complain when others use similar language at you.
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iGRF ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6499 |
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True, but in all fairness I deserve it and indeed deliberately set out to provoke at times, iiitick however doesn't. Support the Laser by all means and understandably be bitter and twisted, because in doing so you are paying an absolutely outrageous and I would say unbelievably dishonest margin for a sail that costs less than 50 USD to build and £450 + for a carbon top section - seriously? Are you all mental? You should long ago have banded together as a class and sorted the whole supply situation out, it's no wonder you get all shouty at poor old iiitick Sanctimonious convicts from the other side of the world are seriously in no position to judge either the goings on nor the humour of Brits on a largely brit forum, their place should be on Dinghy Anarchy although I suspect they've been f**ked off from there long ago. Edited by iGRF - 07 Aug 17 at 3:08pm |
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fab100 ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 15 Mar 11 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1005 |
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Laser pricing was always a bit monopolist abusive, but since becoming an Olympic class the gouging has got far worse I'd say. Presumably as mummy and daddy happily will pay in order for little Johny to become the next Sir Ben, they make more profit that way than by selling more sails at a sensible price.
It's the same gouging in other 5-ring classes. A 470 will cost about £25k all up (suddenly the 505 price looks a bargain!) but because the IOC wants it to be "cheap", it has to be built in polyester resin, FFS, so rig tension destroys the hull after a few months. Contrast the Fireball from the same niche (single trap, 16ft-ish) that you can get built in decent materials and remains competitive for years for around half that sum. Further evidence sailing would be better off outside the Olympics
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