Best Boat

I've finally found time to look at the ASC Blogg. Well done Mat we should be able to drum up some dialogue here.

Lets be contentious. I would like to ask for opinion on which boat sails best? A Young 88 or an Etchells. I don't mean by that which goes fastest but I suppose that is part of the equation, just simply which is the best sailing boat. I know which is the most pretty boat.

So lets start some dialogue here. Its true to say that the front end of any ASC race is dominated by the Young 88's and the Etchells'. Lets hear your bias based on experience or just from the sidelines.

There is no doubt that the boats attract quite different indivduals. The Etchells owners and crew are, on the whole in love with the looks of their craft, low to the water they feel at one with nature. Under sail the boat looks effortless and the crew reflect the calm exuded by the boat. They can be quite quick, although easy prey for a Halvorsen cruiser.

The Young on the other hand looks fast even when its on its mooring. But unlike the Etchells crew those charged with making the Young perform always look busy, they always look worried about something. Its as if they have a job to do and the boss is watching. The Young 88 is like a hot car all action and go, eager to be first away from the lights while the Etchells is a much more relaxed proposition and is likely to glide past through the lights while the opposition is doing a wheely.

Both great boats...but which is best?

BILGOLA