Women's skiff re-vote

Forgot to mention the 800 in large seas and at the wrong length to the boat's waterline length. Did it several times in Hayling Bay etc over the years, but does not detract from the boat overall. 

It's not that bad to be honest RS400 @ C, especially with the carbon rig. I know quite a few mixed teams that sail them, us being one of them and a good boat to sail. If you hit big waves, it gets messy, but every boat has it's compromise. If you sail at a club where there's regularly a  big swell, buy an 800, you'll get more from it. Estuaries, harbours, lakes, all awesome for 49ers. People moan about that, but you don't go rallying in a F1 car, purely due to the car being optimised for the track. 

 G.R.F. @ 6.55pm. Very good. Moving with the times is one thing, but does that have to mean going ever more extreme. It could just as well mean a (relatively) simple efficient design which allows Olympians to show their skills.  

17Mika, do you have many other twin wire boats in Italy? In the UK we have some International 14's, which are expensive to keep up to date, plus quite a lot of RS800's, a few Cherubs, a few 49ers. A few others too. I sail an RS800 a few times a year, it's great.
I think there wil be a market for twin wire boats, where is the logic in 'one wire is good, two wires is bad'? I mostly sail hiking boats, but if I went for a trapeze boat, why not twin wires? There are enough people around who have helmed from the wire now, on Contenders, RS600's, Mustos and RS700's, I think twin wires will slowly become accepted into more people's minds. Particularly sailing as a couple, it makes sense for the taller male to be out on the wire.
If the XX has only been marketed for less than 3 seasons, it is doing well to have sold a few boats around the globe. A lot of people are probably holding back for the results of the trials.

I understand that in Scandinavia, the RS500 is quite popular as a youth/girls 2 wire boat, if it has proved popular there, then I believe there is a market for a range of 2 wire boats worldwide. I don't think those sailors will grow older and want to progress to a hiking boat, without the choice of continuing with the twin wires.
The 49er is too big/powerful for most female sailors, which creates a need for something smaller.
It may only be good at big lakes and sea venues, but that is not a problem.
Whether there are enough 2-female teams to get good racing in one country is another question, maybe most females would do a lot of their racing in a mixed fleet. For that reason the 29erXX might win, as it would have youth teams for ladies teams to tune up against and train with.
It's always nice to hear different views from different countries.

Yes, but the kid down the athletics club is throwing a Javlin already. She isn't then being told "Javlins are so ancient greek, you should be throwing this amazing thing we have invented - it is an Olympic sport now, so you have to use it". The new throwy thing would have to catch on, be used by lots of people all over the world, and then, due to it being a massive world-wide sport, be selected for the games.

Oddly, Frizbee hasn't made it, though?