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The game isn't fun if abusive people like you keep on telling other people that we have no right to their opinions and that anyone who doesn't follow all of your ideas is a dickhead. It's also not fun if we have to deal with abusive people like you who tell us that we have no right to be...

The 505 is specifically NOT a development class, according to its designer and its other creators. As designer John Westell wrote in detail at the time, the fact that it's a one design is the basic point of the class. He specifically wrote that he felt that the traditional British model of...

Dinghies for $10? Jeez you think small. For $10 I'd expect to be able to buy a matched pair of 120 foot racing quintuplemarans that do 60 knots dead upwind in 2 knots of wind, have fourteen geodesic ballrooms with custom fitted bordellos for accommodation, and sail on custom-made seas of...

The call for a $1000 Walmart Laser is way off base. The closest thing they sell seems to be a plastic 12' dinghy for $700. Who in the world is going to be able to add a quality centreboard, rudder, and rig AND make a hull tough enough for racing, for just an extra $300? Even the Snark sells for...

It's the same down here in Oz, in big rigs at least. No one wants to try to race against the full-time Olympic aspirants; even people who finished top 3 in the Open Worlds immediately before the class went Olympic walked away as soon as it was selected for the Games. Ironically, some of the...

And people sail Lasers for convenience and other very good reasons, not because their heads are in their arses.

Oh rubbish. There are many, many people who have sailed boats one hell of a lot quicker than your Blaze and then decided that they love Laser racing. It's NOT the Laser that is the cause of sailing dying, if it is. What has actually happened is that many OTHER classes have dwindled while the...

Sure, but Bruno was talking about a "con" that started 20 years ago....a "con" that got the big rig into the Games years after it had become the most popular adult's raceboat but saw the L2 dropped from the Youth worlds, the L5000 a non-starter for the Games, and the Radial lose out in favour of...

What point did I help you make? You are simply completely wrong in your claim that running shoes are not restricted, as Dogwatch has pointed out. The IAAF rules clearly state that "all types of competition shoes must be approved by IAAF". The rules ban any shoes that give a competitor "any...

Can you help me out here? I'm trying to think of a world sporting federation that DOESN'T have a "template" that specifies the gear that you can use in the major events.... All the sports I know seem to, and sailing's seems to be the most open in many ways. Road cycling and skiing you must have...

With 270+ competitors at the worlds regatta (161 who qualified for the worlds themselves and another 117 in the "world week" regatta held concurrently for those who didn't qualify) the Europe seems a bit more than "near defunct". :-)

So because you only have one decent fleet, you reckon it would be a good thing to kill that last fleet? As someone who enjoys Lasers (and sails other classes as well) it's really tiring to see people like you who can think of nothing but destroying something that a lot of us enjoy. I don't...