How would yachting have developed without GRP?

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They certainly were. We no longer had to hang the sails in the sail shed to dry before bagging them. On the other hand, terylene sails were so much more powerful and caught the wind so quickly that we had to re-learn how to sail just to avoid capsizing.

I must confess that I didn't start sailing until the late 1960s so don't have any experience of cotton sails. I'm not sure I missed much.