RYA or new organisation

Well you all know my view of the RYA and I have supported it as many of my peers did for the forty or so years I've experienced it's existence, but it was always as a better the devil you know and as an entity to block Whitehalls potential incursion into taxing and licensing water use and as far as that bit goes they've done the job.
As the b**tard ginger step child nobody wanted, windsurfing has about got what we expected and those expectations were not particularly high in the first place but for a period the RYA afforded an umbrella within which we could organise ourselves unilaterally and we did and for a while things were OK, then came that day in Lyme Regis and the world changed after that. It was only since I turfed up on the dinghy scene which I always thought the RYA catered for that I realised they bugger you lot about more than they did us.

I never really thought anything we could organise would stand in the place of the RYA, but I do think a sort of Super Class/Body/Federation on the face of it governing Open Handicap racing and offering all the things I've been cracking on about, fairer handicaps, boat ratings, box rule event co ordination, adult race training, manufacturer/ trade liason re handicaps and ratings and with sensible folk to talk to rather than the sort of jobsworths you tend to come across at the RYA these days, that was all.

Edited by iGRF - 25 Apr 17 at 3:51pm

Seems crazy talk to me, evolution not revolution is the way. Nothing stays the same forever even it wants to, external factors will see to that. Sailing could easily drop out of the Olympics as that event itself becomes more and expensive and possibly unsustainable in it's current form. 

Dont forget there have been many inititives tried to bring similar classes or like minded individuals together.

As a father of 2 sailors who have gone through the squad system, I've always been intrigued to know what people mean by being 'spat out''.

Is it not being selected?

Originally posted by JimC But many of those posts in recent threads are the same old nonsense from the same few people. It doesn't make it any more true, but it may be that a constant drip of unmoderated lies, insults and allegations of corruption causes folk with a more informed knowledge of the situations to simply give up on the topics.