What features about a boat are important to you?

Originally posted by zeon You need to retard your ignition. . God that takes me back.  Don’t think anyone under 40 would have any idea what we are talking about lol

40 in dim and distant in the rear view mirror, and I have no idea what you are talking about.

Age isn't the problem. So long as a car could tow a boat, and could be fixed using bits of scaffold pole and wire coat hangers, I really didn't have any clue as to what was happening under the bonnet. Just glad cars have reached the point where I sometimes struggle to remember how to open the bonnet to put windscreen washer in there.

For me it has to be a single hander, one design. Not bothered about much else, Modern enough for Carbon is preferable and with not too much to adjust.

Fleet racing is critical, and a class that has proper international events that are open to amateur sailors, now I have experienced a few of these I don’t think i could go back to a class where the nationals is the main event of the year. It has changed my life in such positive way.

I also like the asthetics of a boat which is of course completely subjective, but somehow not.

Interestingly, I hadn’t considered the Aero when I wrote this as I sail a Contender, I was thinking of boats like that and the OK but I can see the Aero now has this as well. Let’s hope it doesn’t get too professional or Olympian, from a purely selfish perspective.