| In response to Stuart Quarrie's retort over Ger O'Rourke's views on the canting keel boats being penalised at Skandia Cowes Week, Peter Morton writes:
Stuart,
Well said, any business or organisation has to protect the majority of its customers and those that support it year on year. There can't be anybody left in the World who thinks that you can race a swing keeler against a fixed keeler using a single figure system and get a fair result. It does not work now and never has.
I would make a few other points. If swing keelers are so great, why aren't there hundreds of them? It is not as though swing keelers are new, they have been around for years and I was taught that "The market is always right". Are owners like Charles Dunstone, Peter Ogden, and Colm Barrington really so stupid that have not "seen the light"? ...more |
