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On 6 Oct, 23:44, Eric Greenwell wrote:
Do people buy a dinghy just to go sailing most of the time, and race only once or twice a year? Or are they bought primarily for racing? If it's the later, we may not learn anything by comparing one design racers in gliders and sailboats, because most people don't/won't buy a glider for just racing. My perception of the dinghy racing folk (I'm strictly a cruising sailor) is that it's almost all racing - not least because there are generally races every weekend throughout the season. It's probably also important that most sailing clubs concentrate on a particular class (or two). To get the equivalent in gliding would require a club to have ten or twenty PW-5's on the club/PO fleet, with competitions every Saturday and Sunday throughout the local soaring season. I think the flaw in the one-design concept is thinking a lot pilots like the concept enough to actually make any sacrifice in cost or performance to get one. The good thing about the World Class competition was in stimulating interest in smaller, less complicated gliders once again. The bad thing was thinking that top-notch competition pilots would want to give up their Venti / Nimbi / ASWs /ASHs to fly them. I don't expect there would be any difficulty in getting entrants for a World Class competition if some nice sponsor provided a fleet of identical Discus 2's ... Ian |
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