"DSK" wrote in message

The biggest problem singlehanding a 470 that I can see is keeping all
the control lines from getting hopelessly tangled. The boat is the
original "spaghetti factory."

I think the *original* spaghetti factory was the Flying Dutchman. I agree
that the 470 has enough line to look like a pot of pasta aboil, but there
were two occasions when I wound up with a leg bound by wrapped lines after a
particularly hairy jibe mark in the FD. One sailor in our fleet actually
got dragged behind his FD after falling overboard with lines wrapped around
one of his legs. And we always seemed to have lines trailing out the
Elvstrom bailers. I've heard 470s described as mini-FDs on occasion, I
think more for the mess of lines in the cockpit rather than any similarity
in appearance or performance. The Tempest is another spaghetti factory.

Max