Elliot 6m

The elliot 6 probably fits the bill for the Olympics ladies boats and succeeds over the yngling in keeping that tally of competitors up.

It looks like it should fit the bill APART from the lack of a prodder: Match racing at a high level with assymetrics is just as tactical and more so as boats achieve separation quicker, this forcing more camera sticky manoevers. Nothing more boring than a procession, even if the spinnaker team are sweating their butts off over 2' depth or height!

In the water it looks a bit draggy at the stern: a lot of stern in the water , but the boat has quite little deadrise and reportedly an optimised WL-Drag-Power-RightingLever set up.

For a normal kite then I reckon they would have been better going for the platu: an international class, probably faster than an elliot 6, cheap and able to offer mixed sex team sailing.

Of course they really should have chosen the melges 24. Next time round we may see the sit in M20 up for this slot, or the mens I dunno. Certainly I don't have a problem with the E6 and the 49er being the respective top prestige, but the 29erXX is kind of missing the mark for many.

How many non sailors sit glued to star or soling or Europe sailing ?