On a recent holiday abroad we were attempting to learn a new sport, a group of young girls and group of middle agish men. Things were going horribly wrong and the instructor was overheard saying to one of his mates who had arrived " why should he be bothered to teach old fat men". At no stage did the youngish instructor acknowledge that his teaching methods would have to be modified to suite old fat men ( in my case probably true ).

Now looking at a lot of the posts on this forum of late there seems to be almost the same age divide, youngish people looking in making comments without any thoughts on what exactly the makeup of the owners of F16 boats are and what exactly their requirements are in owning a F16 boat.

My question is to this forum is that from what I see and read the majority of owners are not youngish, mainly a little portly by looking at weights being mentioned and generally quite skilled and seasoned sailors. Is this why we have such conflicting views with the likes of Macca and Sue who probably have a whole different requirement and approach to the sport. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />