Farr 3.7

I think that the market has consolidated around the big beasts like RS and Hartley that can afford a professional marketing effort and expect this trend to continue. There will be niche classes that appeal to smaller subsets of people that can get sufficient scale (Nothing like RS of course) to be viable but the trick here is to pick a niche that is unique enough and yet large enough! In my class we have seen alot more interest post-COVID with the builders order book full for the next year and 50+ boats sailing regularly. At our last open we had 18 boats show up which was more than the Blazes managed with whom we shared the event. As I am a hiker rather than a trapeze artist I have little insight into the Farr's market but from the little I know I suspect that it does have a unique appeal, its just that the subset of people for whom it appeals is too few.