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    Posted: 23 Jun 18 at 9:15am
Compound that with an industry so focused on short boards and you have a recipe for decimating fleets - especially inland, river and light wind estuaries. But hey, sub 250cm was better for shipping from the Cobra factory, so it made totes commercial sense!
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I guess racing longboards became a minority pursuit and RB sales fell below commercially viable levels. I believe the IYRU shot the sport in the foot when they changed the rule to outlaw one offs and small builder raceboards in favour of 'production boards'. Presumably this was because the big manufacturers didn't want the competition from a few one man board shapers and 
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Originally posted by Do Different

Good response if slightly over read from my simple post. 
I try not to criticise classes and avoid as best I can getting tribal. I was simply comparing the commonly used Laser benchmark in terms of cost of materials. My use of the the word better was meant in the most basic monetary way, not saying one boat or level of tech is better than the other in terms of overall satisfaction. I agree that appropriate materials and the most simple solutions are often the very BEST and that more is far from always better.



Cheers, and sorry if my passion for keeping the sport accessible led to me going over the top. I'm just really worried that boats are going down the same death spiral as windsurfers.
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