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Dedication and commitment? This is the LASER Forum buddy where's yours? I know more about Cali HS sailing than I care to admit but it will suffice to say that having been the PRO of the St FYC HS regatta last year, I know it is not a PCISA event and counts for nothing same as the Socal event. Many of the teams are slash teams and therefore there is not a team to undedicate oneself to.
The MWW is a more important event. Club based teams should be pointing this out to their sailors. Good scores at MWW will get you into Youths Champs (where I don't see your Olympic hopeful self ever having been on the score sheet). Did you ever even get into that event? Maybe if you had shown some dedication and commitment to some real sailing instead of some lame HS team you would have.
I only started this link in the hope of getting a few more 4.7s to come out and play. You are definitely at the top of the lame A-hole for list for attacking my attempt to improve our sport!
If you want the 4.7 fleet to get bigger, you have to target the kids at the root: the yacht clubs. One of the problems is that most kids come out of sabots/optis, and if their to small for Radials, they go to 420s or CFJs. IF, and I mean IF, the YC has any 4.7's, if they choose, they will sail those. Unfortunately 4.7's are not very popular. I think it may be because the class is still relatively young, and the problem is that kids grow out of it quickly, so parents are unwilling to buy them. The answer to this is to outfit the YC's with a handful of them. The parent/child supplies the boat and top section, and they borrow the sail and lower section from the YC until they are ready for a Radial. And if they become serious about it, they can buy their own.
Whats your answer to this problem?
As for me being a coach: if you had ever had me as a coach you wouldn't be sending these weak responses to questions about Laser sailing which have forced me to comment on how lame you are. If you responded in the first place with the problem you saw with 4.7s as you understood it instead of insinuating that I don't know what dedication and commitment are you would have gotten a respectful response. It a two way street.
What are you doing to get 4.7s on the water in your area?
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What are you doing to get 4.7s on the water in your area?
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Not really much of a concern for me right now. I sail for myself.
I think the 4.7 rig is doing well in Puerto Rico, but I don't know why.