Solo fleet still growing

Despite his outward appearance, Graeme's still in his 'dinghy sailing adolescence'.  Once that sh*t's out his system he can come back to sailing a well mannered, popular boat again (it doesn't have to be a Solo, I reckon he's bang on the right weight/build for a Streaker.  But if there's no fleet considerations and I were sub 75kg, I'd be very, very tempted to offer Dan enough green to part with that Punk!!!)     

Was, was a great boat got some problems with your tense there Sheetpuller and anyway it's also questionable use of the term 'great'.

The 505 was a 'great' boat so arguably was the Flying Dutchman in its day, one could also almost be persuaded by the argument for the Finn being listed as such, not me, but some might. The Solo however does not rank up there, it ranks down amongst all the other self build kit boat dross even I know the difference between kit boats and proper professionally built stuff.

Now the fact some chancers may be milking the kit boat genre for survival off the back of the handicap Bandit market doesn't make the fruits of their moulds great, they are just sad revisitations of a bygone era served up for the undead, mentally deficient and charismatically retarded.

Nothing great about them, horrid things, why do we need reminding grown men can act like fools and there's no fool like an old fool.

Edited by iGRF - 02 Nov 12 at 3:12pm

Originally posted by iGRF Now the fact some chancers may be milking the kit boat genre for survival off the back of the handicap Bandit market doesn't make the fruits of their moulds great, they are just sad revisitations of a bygone era served up for the undead.

Edited by pondmonkey - 02 Nov 12 at 3:28pm

but wouldn't the punk lose its charm if there were 50 of them?  It was lose 95% of it anyway as soon as Mr Holman wasn't sailing it.  He built it for himself, not someone else and it actually f**king works!!!  That's something I personally think surpasses any design goals or handling characteristics.

Edited by pondmonkey - 02 Nov 12 at 3:33pm

The thing is if the market were structured the way it should have been getting 600 units into it isn't a big deal, but it's not, it's lead by it's own consumer base all thinking they know best, which of course they don't, they only know what they have and not what could be.

We sell and introduce well over 600 kite setups every year and so I guess do a few of our competitors, that's because
a) Folk want to do it.
b)They want to do it now and not wait for months
c)There is someone enthusiastic selling them it and profiting by the sale over a wide geographic area.

Sailing might have a) but falls down on b) and c) with the result you end up with the sad lot that this thread is about.