The '98 AGM report overlooked the point I made on boat safety:

DCA Boat Safety Recommendations which now appear in every issue of our Bulletin recommend that our dinghies should be recoverable from capsize and swamping, but most of the Bulletin's boat descriptions and new boat reviews fail to mention whether or not the boats concerned conform to this important requirement! Apparently many 'proper cruising dinghies' are very difficult or virtually impossible for the crew to right from a turnturtle capsize. A good 'stable boat' may even be more stable when inverted. If a special technique is required for righting these boats, such as putting one's weight at the stern, it is vital that we know about it.

Salespeople should be able to show videos of their boats: 1) demonstrating their stability by a stated weight of people sitting on the gunwhale without capsizing; 2) being righted from a turnturtle capsize, with the weight of the righting person/s stated, and 3) being sailed when flooded, with a stated weight of crew on board.

Very high capsize resistance may be preferred to capsize recovery of course.

Incidentally, an item of survival know-how which not everyone may be aware of: in a turnturtle capsize there is a risk of the centreboard dropping back into the case, leaving no foothold from which to right the boat. With many craft, such as the 14 foot Leader, a resolute person can get under an upturned dinghy and return the centreboard so that the boat can be righted by the ordinary RYA method. I am assured that there is ample air-space for breathing, and that elderly people can do it. On the other hand returning a heavy metal centreboard from underneath a boat would call for extreme survival efforts!