Sunday, August 5, 2007

P-class to Optimist



Funny bow on the Optimist. Blunt.


And wet. They take on water. Troublesome to bale out when it gets swamped or when it capsizes.


Hard to pull up when it falls over?


Hard. The old P-class was closed and so if, sorry, when, you canned out, it was easy to right and bale the water out of the small cockpit.


I liked the shape of the P-class. It at least had a bow and closed in deck. Altogether neater. More yacht-like.


I agree, the Optimist looks about as elegant as a paper cup.


Why couldn't they at least put a sharper bow on it?


Cost. Harder to bend the wood into a curve at the front. Cheaper and easier just to stick a pram dinghy slab there. Sometimes the old ways were good.




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