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    Posted: 18 Nov 13 at 10:04am
"its like taking a VW camper van around the Nurburgring! "

And why not? As long as you are up against other campers, of course. A bunch of sonatas racing each other is no more daft(or not) than sitting in a piece of varnished wood and racing similar craft.
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My Daily Mail comment was very tongue in cheek.

As far as I can see at our club adult membership is quite varied. We have Solicitors, teachers and plumbers. The one thing that we all are is 'respectable' and socially responsible. We all get along very well and the atmosphere is very pleasant. We are almost child free at the moment with a distinct lack of junior members but when they do appear and join they are usually propelled by wealthy ambitious parents. When I used to take the 'boy' to junior races I was the only parent with an old car and a trailer welded up from scrap. When we were at the Ovington Inlands last year there were 60? 29 ers all sailed by youth and accompanied by motor home parents.

I believe that the posh part of dinghy sailing is the youth part of dinghy sailing, the remainder is just respectable. 

Ah well, another couple of hours in bed, last nights kebab for breakfast, down to the bookie, pub for lunch and sleep it off in the dinghy park.....bliss.
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Originally posted by JimC

The point I was trying to make was that just because a family turn up with a 4*4 and all the gear it need not mean that they have the disposable income of a BBC executive, it could equally be that they have cut down drastically on other expenditure to make it possible to do the circuit in a degree of comfort.


I think there is a problem here, too, that people are equating posh with well off. There are plenty of people who wouldn't have a clue which fork to use who have a disposible income magnitudes larger than someone who comes from a long line of land owners and lives in a country pile.

Sailing probably never crosses the minds of many people who could afford to do it - it just isn't in their world, whereas nice cars and a skiing holiday are.
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Yacht Racing is for rich people.

Dinghy Racing has got far too expensive, but still a long way below Yacht Racing, IMO.

Polo is for posh people. 

Gymkhana's and Pony Club are for posh people and people who want to mix with posh people, but aren't posh themselves. 

Compared to massive stink boat ownership it's all still small beer.

The Daily Mail is just wrong, plain wrong.  Unless you happen to be white, middle or upper class and like a right-wing comic instead of a newspaper of a morning, IMO.
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Originally posted by iitick

AND WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE DAILY MAIL MAY I ASK?
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AND WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE DAILY MAIL MAY I ASK?
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The point I was trying to make was that just because a family turn up with a 4*4 and all the gear it need not mean that they have the disposable income of a BBC executive, it could equally be that they have cut down drastically on other expenditure to make it possible to do the circuit in a degree of comfort.
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...you were lucky...our dad used to send us to tropics in t' Mirror dinghy to pick bananas out t' trees and then we'd have to be back by 6 in t' mornin' to start work at mill.

But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
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The young of today, they don't know how good they've got it - not like in my day, when we thought we were lucky if we got a banana once a week, and going to the cinema was a treat for every other birthday, and we could only afford one piece of coal for the fire each night.

Beginning to sound like the Daily Mail on this thread.
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Originally posted by JimC

Its amazing what you can afford to do if you cut out takeaway meals, booze, fags and foreign holidays... I got a new Cherub when I was on a very modest income back in the 80s.


Couldn't agree more Jim
Most people these days don't appreciate how much of their expenditure is basically on luxuries.
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