I must be VERY lucky.
So we arrive at the conclusion that ocean racing is a largely pointless pursuit? Its either chequebook racing or a lottery and OD will not work....
You are really being very overly general there.
Right... so let me get this straight. Its a bad idea unless you use Farr 40's with better rules? So one one design is better than another?...
Out of that whole post you see fit to pick on a throw away line and call it a straw man argument? Oh dear god are we not precious! Yeah you do...
Sun Fish are a *****... :p
That is not always the case, if the bolt measures to spec after use it can be reused in many cases. I have done so on many occasions. They are...
What is a loose race? Nothing really, I have designed implemented and tried to refine a club handicapping system. All I can say is that at the...
1. Yes, Rolex should have let it slip, very silly to give it credence. 2. The article is probably 30 years late... and a bit pointless, the...
To a limited degree, but nothing that is really going to be internationally acceptable... I think that wider scope, like some of the dinghy...
No, no it wouldn't. There are many one designs that don't have a single manufacturer. If the class rules are tight that would be severely...
Hmmmmm, a conservative yacht by my reckoning. Sounds like you are thinking of fat lead mines as the norm... she looks like a decent passage maker...
Yeah... no. The object is a level playing field so that the sailors do the talking not the designers or budget.
Did you look at the page and photos? She is quite a fat old cruiser by racing standards... plenty of comfort there!
It still ends up being cheque book racing....
