It's increasingly concerning to me that sailboats represent such a waste of resources. This is actually self harming to the industry as well, we end up with large numbers of basically unwanted sailboats of ancient designs clogging up our marinas, and looking extremely dated to the newer generations who are increasingly aware of both material impacts on our environment and what modern designs are out there.
So the two main sailor types the "lets get out into our environment"s and the "lets do something exciting"s are both put off.
No wonder sailing has an identity crisis.
There is some hope out there though - this last weekend I was talking to some fellow Krakheads about my misgivings on the sport and right after SA ran an article on some people who care.
Personally I'd be very interested in a recyclable SeaScape 27 or similar. A go fast go clean machine.
So, there's a market of one if anyone wants to build it!
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