Rise Of The Ok etc

then get on and post something interesting.... oh, you can't, you've got nothing interesting to contribute. 

Edited by kneewrecker - 08 Oct 14 at 1:08pm

Russ, Their race section and dinghy development are very similar. The difference is, on bike radar if you don't the threads in the race section there are more than twenty other active sections and hundreds of threads. Unlike y&y where there is one active section and half a dozen active threads. It's very sad watching its decline.

Ah, I wondered what sky dopping was - wondered if there was a r missing, never occurred to me it was an extra p. Yes, I can see that would cause similar round in circles arguements, but in this case, the yardsticks affect what many of us do on a Sunday morning, whereas I assume doping is very rare indeed for Sunday morning cyclists?

I often wonder, it doesn't keep me up late, but I do ponder occasionally what the Tea Party do find interesting, what could we possibly discuss that would have some positive input from them?

This is all (relatively) new to me I realise y'all have been round the block several times and had your enthusiasm crushed, but I still think if enough noise and discussion gets made, somewhere, in the darker reaches of some dusty corner of the Royal Yacht Squadron or wherever it is Mr RYA has dozed off knocking his medication off the arm of his chair, a flunky might dare to give him a shake.. 'they're stirring your worship, they're not happy and we didn't make our figures this year..'

Edited by iGRF - 08 Oct 14 at 12:40pm

Originally posted by JimC >Book/brochure This sort of stuff? http://www.rya.org.uk/racing/Pages/portsmouthyardstick.aspx

Yes yes yes we've all read it, what they don't tell you is how the national numbers are awarded and why, do the Great Lakes numbers affect it or not, ask Jim he'll say not, ask someone else they'll say maybe, someone else will fudge with 'oh if the individual clubs submit their returns then yes they do.'

Do we actually know how the Icon got to be stuffed, why have other boats never moved since 2008 (the year zero before they appeared to start with their meddling).

Lack of transparency invokes *Fullers Razor.

I'll find out when we get the Royal Visit, or maybe I won't, because 'they' don't tell him either, or blame will be apportioned to stats, which is a dead easy cop out, 'oh it's not us', the stats make it happen, when there are enough folk with enough experience and enough common sense to know, some of the resulting number lately are ridiculous and somebody should have stepped in.

No I don't want to start meddling like Redoubt, winning because you have some locally awarded personal handicap is worse than losing because your boat handicap is a bit harsh for the prevailing water/conditions/body shape.

And stability.. Stability is what is required handicaps, especially average handicaps should not move so violently, wether the sport is globally dumbing down or not.

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Edited by iGRF - 08 Oct 14 at 12:14pm