Solution, trouble at mill?

Having revisited my jolly old Solution and recapturing the joy of an easy boat to use and race yesterday I thought I'd have a google about see what's going on, seems they've been having a shift around with builders and it now has the distinct impression of musical chairs, seems they haven't been long with the new one and are on the move again, no idea to whom or where or even why.

I did try and get them to adopt a sail from a builder local to my area in preference to the Hyde offering that Ovington make your eyes water with, but they appear to be reverting to one closer to home can't remember the name as I type this, but I still think it's a mistake monopolising your sail supplier, better to have opened the class to local builders based on measurement.

In fact if it were me, I'd open the entire rig so we could maybe see a carbon set up. Imagine the Solution with a D0 rig what a nice boat that would be.

Anyway all academic I think my classassociation membership has probably lapsed as I usually renew it each year at the dinghy show and we haven't had one of those in a while have we?

But we should keep an eye on whats going on, if they do come up trumps with a half decent builder and we see a resurgence, it's a great little boat very under rated, imagine if Hartleys got their hands on it, carbonised and supersofa'd it, wouldn't that be cool?


Edited by iGRF - 08 Nov 21 at 10:28am

I can understand folk not doing as well in the Solution, it's quite quirky and tbh the only reason it really works for me is against Lasers (and for a while four other Solutions). It's strengths are the centreboard, righting moment for a short ass lightweight, the option of raking the rig on the fly, which a) depowers it and b) almost affords sailing by the Lee thanks to slack shrouds, it tacks on a dime and comes out of the tack really quickly so it's a windshift followers dream which works on confined puddles like our lake. Completely dfifferent ball game on the sea, try as you may, pump, rock and ooch your balls off it won't live with Lasers offwind and the centreboard case tolerances are so tight even the smallest gravel shingle will jam that centreboard forever, well at least long enough so you miss the start. It's another example of too short, another 20 cm hull length and what a different story it would be.

Cheers Hagar . Lots of interesting info in you post. That’s answered a lot of questions but thrown up others.

Originally posted by iGRF Thanks Hagar, interesting, but 60 plus OK dinghies? Really? I mean I'm sure in its day etc etc, but the OK, am I missing something, are the lipstick versions bandits? Are they going over seas? Can't all be for #elephantdinghygraveyardghostriders.com.

Originally posted by H2 Originally posted by iGRF Thanks Hagar, interesting, but 60 plus OK dinghies? Really? I mean I'm sure in its day etc etc, but the OK, am I missing something, are the lipstick versions bandits? Are they going over seas? Can't all be for #elephantdinghygraveyardghostriders.com. I just bought a used OK this past weekend. Using my "if iGRF hates them then they will be a cracking boat" measure I should probably end up falling in love with it!