Proliferation of single handers

I don't think it is my imagination but we are getting more and more single handers.  When I first started sailing there was the Finn and Moths and then along came the Laser.  Now we have Phantom, Blaze, Streaker, Contender, IC, RS600, RS700, Musto Skiff and a few more.  Once upon a time the Olympic Single Hander was a Firefly.

And there are a few Single handed Cats as well

Hi Redback,

Just as a matter of interest, I thought that I would check out the approximate dates when some of the single handed classes were intoduced:

1866 International Canoe,   1928 International Moth,   1932 International Moth,   1947 Optimist,   1949 Finn,   1956 Solo,   1957 OK,   1960 Europe,   1964 Mini Sail,   1964 Toy,   1967 Unicorn Cat,   1967 Contender,   1971 Laser,   1971 Phantom,   1975 Streaker,   1976 Topper,   1977 Lightning 368,   1978 Dart 15 Cat,  1980 Catapult Cat,   1980 Challenger Tri,   1981 Comet,   1981 Illusion Keelboat,  1988 Splash,   1988 Flash,   1990 Topper Byte,   1993 RS 600,   1994 Topper Blaze,   1995 Supernova,   1995 Laser Pico,   1997 RS 300,   1997 Escape,   1998 Laser EPS,   1999 Musto Skiff,   2000 RS 700,   2000 Laser Vortex,   2000 Megabyte,   2001 RS Vareo,  2001 Hobie FX1 Cat,   2001 Shadow Cat,    2002 Topper Taz.

I am sure that there are others. It must be about time that we got another example from Laser, Topper or RS.

Ian   (Yorkshire Dales S.C.)

Edited by iansmithofotley

laser and topper are too busy churning out xenon and vago thinghys.

Whatabout an rs100

you forgot the hobie 14 but i can understand why