Does the world need a two-adult one-wire RS?

However is the trend away from two person boats partly due to changes in cultural practices.

Before we became a more nervous certificate needy society people and children learnt to sail either from parents or by turning up at a Club and looking keen & useful; two person boats of various type were needed and the norm.

Now adults arriving at a Club are directed to a course which largely focuses on helming and for whatever reasons children are more rarely taught by parents but instructors and again groups helming singlehanders.

The one to one gradual training has been replaced by short and relatively intense group training where the perceived outcome is to be able to helm your own boat; singlehanders then by default become the natural route to follow.

To some extent I believe this trend has made the game more and I'm struggling for the right wording here, individual and less team and group driven. I would be interested to see if there is any knowledge of drop out rates (especially adults) after taking a course compared to one2one jump in and going sailing type introductions. 

Going slightly off track and speaking broadly. There has been a lot of focus on the need for lighter boats. Yes of course lighter boats perform "better", well faster anyway although there is a whole 'nother debate about how light you want to go before it becomes counter to general usability. HOWEVER. a lot of the call is driven by ease of handling ashore. Singlehanders, it's all in the name the initial notion is you are alone to do it all. Two person boats you are straightaway into a team to handle the boat and it breeds a mindset to muck-in together. A slightly heavier two person fleet landing on a more difficult shore it is the natural thinking to work mob handed to get everyone up the beach and sorted. 

Some Clubs are so all over this problem; I am sure that I recall a friend of mine being fined for leaving one wheel of his Phantom in the water (he was a bit ticked because it was a very quiet day and nobody was inconvenienced), probably a bit OTT but at least it made it very clear what was  unacceptable behaviour