[3][4][5][6][7][8] The design was built by Bruce's company, Performance Sailcraft, in Canada and also by Vanguard Sailboats in the United States.

It has a fractional sloop rig, a raked stem, a plumb transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller with an extension and a retractable daggerboard.

[3][4] The boat has a draft of 3.50 ft (1.07 m) with the daggerboard extended and 4 in (10 cm) with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water, beaching or ground transportation on a trailer.

[11] In a February 1980 review John Turnbull in Canadian Yachting wrote of the Laser 2, "Frank Bethwaite, the unclaimed maestro of high-powered dinghy design, and Ian Bruce, the designer / promoter of Performance Sailcraft, may have come up with the only boat that could live up to the expectations created by the Laser.

It doesn't bring anything startlingly new to sailboat design except perhaps the idea that a mass-market boat should be fast and challenging.