Worst Sailboat Ad of All Time
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Rasputin22
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Could be a lot worse...
Jethrow
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Pokey uh da LBC
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The boat isn't the problem. It's the lack of sailing in a well-produced ad that bugs me. Although I don't get the little notch for containing the tiller extension. Or why they would highlight it in the video.
slap
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Why is it when I see "A-Yachts" my mind subconsciously adds two vertical bars to make it "AH Yachts"?
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The worst sailboat ad? All the ones in which the genoa is way undertrimmed and the main is strapped to the centerline of the boat while all the supposed sailors are smilining...
fastyacht
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Notquitecapnron
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My 1985 Laser 28 has a tiller extension notch. It's pretty handy for quick trip forward while single handing.
Nice mainsail flake.
Nice mainsail flake.
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1981 - 27 feet, just enough boat to cruise with a family of 6 for two weeks.
2021 - 27 feet, just enough boat to take 3 people on a 2 hour daysail.
I'm actually more aligned with the latter; unfortunately that means I'm about 25 years away from affording a boat that matches my use case.
2021 - 27 feet, just enough boat to take 3 people on a 2 hour daysail.
I'm actually more aligned with the latter; unfortunately that means I'm about 25 years away from affording a boat that matches my use case.
Ex Machina
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There’s a bloody cool boat under all those cushions and friggery . I would be all over a stripped out version , if I could afford it
guerdon
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First world problem, cool boat, cool people, cool place, cool pitch, It's too bad that we cannot celebrate all this.
It is a pretty bad ad. Butt-ugly boat, mostly motoring in three knots of wind, accompanied by a droning, nails-on-blackboard soundtrack that promotes suicidal ideation.
P.S. No lifejackets, no helmets, no sunscreen, no DayGlo clothing, no CO2 detector, no EPIRB, no life-raft, no float-plan filed ... and most scandalously of all, no anti-Covid masks, and openly drinking-and-boating!!! Health and Safety brigade would have a field day.
P.S. No lifejackets, no helmets, no sunscreen, no DayGlo clothing, no CO2 detector, no EPIRB, no life-raft, no float-plan filed ... and most scandalously of all, no anti-Covid masks, and openly drinking-and-boating!!! Health and Safety brigade would have a field day.
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This ad is why sailing is dying...
For some reason, we believe that to sell sailing, and new sailboats, we must sell it as a Luxury lifestyle (button down white shirt, really? haven't seen that since I dunno, the 30's?). Instead of selling it as an "adventure vehicle" like a Jeep Wrangler, or the new Ford Bronco, or as a family recreational vehicle (their sales are off the charts in the pandemic), we are still trying to sell that it's a past time of the young, rich and beautiful, even if most of us aren't.
Doomed to fail for the sport in general, and this boat in particular.
For some reason, we believe that to sell sailing, and new sailboats, we must sell it as a Luxury lifestyle (button down white shirt, really? haven't seen that since I dunno, the 30's?). Instead of selling it as an "adventure vehicle" like a Jeep Wrangler, or the new Ford Bronco, or as a family recreational vehicle (their sales are off the charts in the pandemic), we are still trying to sell that it's a past time of the young, rich and beautiful, even if most of us aren't.
Doomed to fail for the sport in general, and this boat in particular.
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Sailboats can never reach the peaks or incredible valley's that Powerboat purveyors go to make the sale. The stories and rumors about how far superyacht sales tactics go if only slightly true are in a class all to their own. However in production and lets say affordable boats there was that Italian boat show with the two naked women making out in a runabout. (<20 feet long) Not sure if this is the best or worst attempt to sell boats but it sure is much different than the Annapolis boat show.
There is definitely some truth here. With all the recent Tech money and those who invested in Tech looking for ideas where to put that money, a boat with some Translat 22 features that is marketed as you indicate sounds like a winner to me. A 30ish foot boat that can take you places but get you home in the worst conditions. Something that is similar to a 4 Runner, Hillex ?or Jeep. Preach on !
