Sail For Gold on the Beeb

Just found on the BBC that they want peoples views on how to cover the 2012 games.

Originally posted by Phil eltringham I'm planning to put together a fake TV highlingts show using the footage, as if it were to be broadcast.  Has anyone got any tips, suggestions, advice or ideas of what they would like to see if this was for real?

Take a lesson from the BBC coverage and dont cut straight from "Paul Goodison has got a good start..." to "...and he crosses the finish line in 4th!"

I'm going to be filiming the B14 nationals this weekend, not because it the B14s, but because its an event i happen to have access to.  I'm planning to put together a fake TV highlingts show using the footage, as if it were to be broadcast.  Has anyone got any tips, suggestions, advice or ideas of what they would like to see if this was for real?  I'm hoping to use this as a "proof of concept" that sailing on TV does not need to be what we have seen of late.  Thanks in advance. 

Originally posted by ifoxwell Off topic really but two things that stood out for me was just how shot those sails looked after presumably just a weeks sailing! And the comments about Paul Goodisons testing of different sail mast configurations trying to work out what worked best. So much for the one design nature of the class providing an equal platform... granted the differences are still small but they are still there! Ian

When I bought a new Laser top mast from Steve C years ago, he pointed me at a pile and said pick which one I wanted.  When I asked why, I'm sure he said there was up to 15% variation in weight allowed.  That makes quite a difference in terms of stiffness and therefore overal mast bend profile.

Feel free to correct me if I've got the number wrong...

Ian

I think yesterday's show was better.  I was wondering at one point if they simply had not been able to get any racing footage and were padding the show out with human interest pieces.  Personally I think if they had just moved the order round a bit it would have worked better.  If they had put the bit about the first races of the laser worlds right at the beginning, then done all the bits on sail testing, road trip, and Giles packing etc then it would have been more engaging. 

I am concious that we should not be biting the hand that feeds, we are lucky to get any coverage at all, and an hour and a half in the space of a month is really not bad going, far better than some other sports get.  It is however right that we should be constantly trying to maximise the return on what we get.