Originally Posted by tback
Originally Posted by Jake
I really wish you guys would come up with another moniker than "classic".


average
classic
clichéd
conventional
exemplary
hackneyed
model
most characteristic
paradigmatic
prime
quintessential
representative
standard
stereotypical
stock
textbook


No, no, no...something contextually entirely different. A "classic" car is old as crap. My A-cat is not old. To infer that an A-cat that is only a few years old is a "classic" is just terrible marketing for the class, bad for boat resale value, and marginally insulting (it's obvious that the "classic" moniker was conceived by people who owned foilers). Besides, the real "classic" a-cats have always been the higher weight wood a-cats that even have their own portsmouth rating.

Full Foiler, semi-foiler...something like that. We essentially have two different classes of boats. While it's likely that the future class will eventually be all foilers, that isn't set in stone just yet. Even the non-foiling A-cats are a genuine pleasure to sail and unlike what happened with the moth, there really isn't another boat that competes with the features of either a-cat variation.

Maybe the foilers should be the ones that get a new designation - let's call them A-cat-BMWs. (Buying My Wins) grin


Jake Kohl