As technical as these races are, as good as the sailors are; the laser is in anything below 14 to 15 kn of wind such unexciting boat seen from inside and outside of the boat. As much as the laser has given to Competitive sailing within the last 50 years, it’s time to move on.
I agree I understand that to be an Olympic class it needs numbers and lasers are popular due to price, ease to learn and being singlehanded. But at some point you have to wonder why we don’t have boats like 49ers or Sharpies or something more exciting to watch at the olympics, if this is meant to be the pinnacle of sailing surely they can at least handle a kite and a bit of speed.
Great racing in light tricky conditions.
JB dominated that race, it's an absolute master class of tactics. If only he was more consistent, he could have been one of the greats
Bring keelboats back to the olympics!!
20:50 Correction: Lorenzo Brando Chiavarini "returned to Italy" he didn't change over given he's born Italian.
basically what he said
Gottlieb Springs
yes wearny
Great sailing.although some dung being talked 😂
Feil Glens
As technical as these races are, as good as the sailors are; the laser is in anything below 14 to 15 kn of wind such unexciting boat seen from inside and outside of the boat. As much as the laser has given to Competitive sailing within the last 50 years, it’s time to move on.
I agree I understand that to be an Olympic class it needs numbers and lasers are popular due to price, ease to learn and being singlehanded. But at some point you have to wonder why we don’t have boats like 49ers or Sharpies or something more exciting to watch at the olympics, if this is meant to be the pinnacle of sailing surely they can at least handle a kite and a bit of speed.
@@JamalJohnson177there are 49ers at the Olympics
Sail a laser in 14 knots and then tell us it’s not exciting. 😂
@@graysonsikkema Exactly that’s why I switched to the Aero.