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    Posted: 05 Sep 11 at 9:45am
Under the trolling, Grumph has a point - just how many National Champions are there out there? Maybe we should use the term Class Champion. I guess the National classes (Fireflies, Merlins etc) would have National Champions, & maybe the list of National classes could be kept current, as it seems to have gone out of favour.
 
I don't agree that celebrating top sailors at national level is meaningless bollox, though - it has far more relevance to the average sailor (not, notice, average Brition, who couldn't give a stuff about any of it, so should be ignored) than the Olympic stuff. I can race boat on boat with Class Champions, and even get close to being one myself, and think - just a bit more practice - loose some weight - maybe next year...
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Originally posted by G.R.F.

blah blah blah blah tedious trolling blah blah blah blah
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OK I'll bite wtf is Taxi Wotsisname?
He can't be top anything if I've never even heard of him...

And anyway sailing has never been about 'top dogs' it's arrogant enough that silly little groups of a dozen or so wooden things sailing on a pond decide that they have produced a 'National Champion' when the population of the nation is upwards of 60 million, I always found that a little absurd, Class Champion should have been the title. Don't even start me on the European and World moniker from 60 boats most of whom are Brits.

So whoever this 'Taxi' is, it's meaningless bollox unless he gets to be in the Olympic glare, where there is at least some representation and competition that is at least testing, not I might add are they anything like as skilled as sailors of old, fit maybe, with access to nutricians, psychologists, masseurs and training regimes, but skilled sailors? Nope, sorry, nothing like the level that used to exist in the past.
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Indeed,
Steve Cockerill normally racks up a few each year; 2007 x 5 = RS300, Laser Radial, Streaker, Graduate, Rooster 8.1. Granted some of them may not be compared to say Merlins/Solos in depth of competition.


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I wouldn't be at all suprised to hear it had been done before. I'm sure I can remember incidences a few years back of people winning quite a few champs, but its not something that interests me enough to pay much attention.
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Well, unless anyone can pove otherwis??, for he/she who has one the most nationals in a year ,we have a winner - Taxi Davis! Well done Taxi! just wish I could take that much holiday in a single summer... ;)
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Make that 5 Taxi just won the dutch Solo nationals !!!!!
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Originally posted by Ruscoe

Well Taxi has Won 4 Nationals this year already.  Speaking with Jim Hunt he has also won 4 in one year before.  I would imagine the candidates for more would be:
Richard Estaugh or Geoff Carveth possibly?
 
Either way 4 nationals titles in one year is good going, especially in some pretty competitive classes.
 
Which ones in addition to the Scorpions & Merlins?
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Well Taxi has Won 4 Nationals this year already.  Speaking with Jim Hunt he has also won 4 in one year before.  I would imagine the candidates for more would be:
Richard Estaugh or Geoff Carveth possibly?
 
Either way 4 nationals titles in one year is good going, especially in some pretty competitive classes.

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