A 1 Meter Trimaran - U.K. Idea

Laurent_S · April 3, 2006, 8:29am

Dick_Lemke:

Laurent -

I will leave this one up to you. As noted, it was a year ago - and since we couldn’t/wouldn’t agree to a specific one-design (hard to comply if everyone is building their own) perhaps you can explain, how one-design, while a good idea, is rather useless if no one person (or company) is making them in one location under controlled building techniques and conditions. I don’t care if they are vaccuum formed styrene - or carbon/kevlar … they all have to be made the same - IDENTICAL !

One design, by it’s very name implies that all boats are created identical. Home building cannot do that.

Maybe you will have a better chance of explaining to “Idealist” that if he were to just build 25 boats (ready to sail) but without radio gear, they could THEN be purchased and could THEN form the basis of a one-design class. BUT - (big but) - they have to be inexpensive, since most people won’t spend a lot of money to buy a boat that is untested. Once 25 of them are sailing, then the price can go up for future buyers, but until they are on the water, sailing … it really continues to be “mental masturbation” !

I’m not sure what part of this explanation makes it difficult to understand? Perhaps you will have better luck explaining it to him? :trouble:

I’ll say just one thing:

http://www.rcsailing.net/forum1/showthread.php?t=1564

dansherman · April 3, 2006, 11:21am

Thread locked, this is not going to be allowed to get out of hand.
by mod Dan