Congratulations to Dan for his great report!!!
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 12:23 am
I really appreciated your article Dan!!!!
I totally agree with you!With your results you showed that on Musto Skiff the weight is not the most important thing as too many times I heard from people complaining about the boat!
I hope that also here in Italy people will understand that this boat is a very good alternative to the 49er!
Unfortunately, in my sailing club, which can count the biggest number of fast skiffs in Italy (like 29er, 49ers and 29erxx) every year I see people passing from the laser4000 or the 29er to the 49er and then they discover that the level is too high for them, and they never go out sailing because it's too difficult to put together their commitments they never have time to go out sailing together and they never improve...
Now, the MPS is not an easy boat when you're coming from the 29er or the laser4000 and you have been sailing them not at high levels (as you guys did:-)) but the upside is that you can go out sailing a lot, whenever you want (much more than on a 49er) because you don't need to wait for anybody! And I think that everyone saw that on this boat you can improve very fast and it depends on how much time you spend on the boat and practice.
So here in Italy we have the same problem: people think that the boat is too difficult and that you must be a superman to sail it and it seems to be hard to convince them that it's wrong!
Maybe I'm an example as many others I read about on this forum: before buying the musto I just did some days of sailing school on a laser 4000 and on a 29er and NOTHING ELSE!Ok I admit the step was too big, it was very hard at the beginning, I did a lot of swimming and I was terribly downhearted but I never gave up and now I can sail the Musto in almost every condition!!Last week-end I went out sailing in a 18 knots wind and I never capsized!For me this is a big result and I'm very happy about it because the boat is really amazing and I love to sail it!Specially when you don't capsize every jybe you really appreciate and enjoy the boat' speed!!!
The only sad thing is to see that few people at the sailing club showes some interest for the boat and most of them are scared about it. Anyway I think the situation is changing a little bit...and for the next years I see a brillant future for this boat in Italy, even if now the mainstream is to the 49er!
Sorry!This was thought to be only a short message but seeing 74 boats at the uk nationals let me be a little bit envious ....This boat was made to race and it's a pity to have so few boats around!And what makes me more angry is that a lot of people here don't understand this boat....
So I'll show you article so that everybody can read it!
Regards,
Edoardo
I totally agree with you!With your results you showed that on Musto Skiff the weight is not the most important thing as too many times I heard from people complaining about the boat!
I hope that also here in Italy people will understand that this boat is a very good alternative to the 49er!
Unfortunately, in my sailing club, which can count the biggest number of fast skiffs in Italy (like 29er, 49ers and 29erxx) every year I see people passing from the laser4000 or the 29er to the 49er and then they discover that the level is too high for them, and they never go out sailing because it's too difficult to put together their commitments they never have time to go out sailing together and they never improve...
Now, the MPS is not an easy boat when you're coming from the 29er or the laser4000 and you have been sailing them not at high levels (as you guys did:-)) but the upside is that you can go out sailing a lot, whenever you want (much more than on a 49er) because you don't need to wait for anybody! And I think that everyone saw that on this boat you can improve very fast and it depends on how much time you spend on the boat and practice.
So here in Italy we have the same problem: people think that the boat is too difficult and that you must be a superman to sail it and it seems to be hard to convince them that it's wrong!
Maybe I'm an example as many others I read about on this forum: before buying the musto I just did some days of sailing school on a laser 4000 and on a 29er and NOTHING ELSE!Ok I admit the step was too big, it was very hard at the beginning, I did a lot of swimming and I was terribly downhearted but I never gave up and now I can sail the Musto in almost every condition!!Last week-end I went out sailing in a 18 knots wind and I never capsized!For me this is a big result and I'm very happy about it because the boat is really amazing and I love to sail it!Specially when you don't capsize every jybe you really appreciate and enjoy the boat' speed!!!
The only sad thing is to see that few people at the sailing club showes some interest for the boat and most of them are scared about it. Anyway I think the situation is changing a little bit...and for the next years I see a brillant future for this boat in Italy, even if now the mainstream is to the 49er!
Sorry!This was thought to be only a short message but seeing 74 boats at the uk nationals let me be a little bit envious ....This boat was made to race and it's a pity to have so few boats around!And what makes me more angry is that a lot of people here don't understand this boat....
So I'll show you article so that everybody can read it!
Regards,
Edoardo