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Glad I'm not in ILCA NA. I've found that while being a volunteer does take a lot of time and trouble, it's very rewarding.

Yes, we know you're trolling. We know that you are so childishly desperate for attention that you will lie to get people to notice you. Most people grow out of that by before they turn ten. It takes a special sort of vile scumbag to stick at it when they are as old as you are. It's very strange...

You're passionately dishonest, aren't you? What sort of pathetic person lies just to troll people on SA? That takes a special level of dishonesty. We are not lemmings, nor ILCA apologists. We're just honest and we have an understanding of the way the class works. If it's easy to rile us, it's...

100% agree. It just shows that the model that works in one country may be impossible in another country. Australia has some of the same issues; in some areas handicap racing is popular but there's still an emphasis on class racing within handicap fleets, whereas in other areas handicap racing...

Rubbish. As others have pointed out, the controls worked fine for middle-aged men but not for kids and women or the guys who are still racing competitively when people like you have whined yourself to death.

The average design date of the 10 most popular International dinghy classes, by current average annual sales, is 1959. The average design date of the 10 most popular UK classes is 1984, compared to the USA's 1950. BUT - although there are no really good bases for comparison, it doesn't seem...

If the class officially adopts new rigs, then fleets must be split in two - there's no other way to adopt them. The Laser class is NOT against change, as has been shown by your utterly incorrect earlier post. The Laser class has adopted similar change to the sports you listed, like hockey and...

The Byte's rig change didn't seem to do much good for class numbers; they don't seem to have had a worlds since 2017 or earlier and they claim Australia, where there is no active class, as a major country in their WS report. I wonder how they would have gone if they'd moved the other way and...

But if you can't sail the new rigs in the same fleet then you lose the fleet racing that most Laser sailors want. "Letting the sailors adopt them if they want" is still going to lead to major problems - the fleets are cut into two. The new rigs were slated to cost around $3500 AUS if I recall...

Sounds good to me; it's just that some (other) people assume that anyone who likes a strict OD is a luddite in all ways.

The Laser sailors I've known have won Moth worlds, done the America's Cup on an AC75 foiling cat, won cat Olympic medals, won 18 Foot Skiff "worlds" and nationals, built their own boats, and done just about everything else in sailing. So class "culture" isn't uber-conservative because the...

Your comparisons are facile, to use your term. Hockey sticks, even for the elite, cost as much as a Laser tiller and extension - and have changed about as much over the same period. Vaulting poles cost less than a mast, and Laser masts have changed just as much as vaulting poles over the same...