Simple, easier to rig, inexpensive and good looking. You pointed out that some people may not see rigging as an issue.
I also see rigging time as a huge issue with clubs, at my club we have a two hour window to get 90 children on the water with around 20 boats, what usually happens, is half a dozen dedicated people start rigging before the children arrive so rigging time does not eat into that time, then at the end of the day the kids de-irig the boats.
So when people say rigging time is not an issue they are not talking from the perspective of one of the target markets which is cadet sailing groups with large numbers of cadets and boats.
P.S. Great design Phil, if only it could be rotomoulded!
