Great British Sailing Challenge

Originally posted by JimC

   Mozzy - I agree with your comments, especially the last part about classes that do not have a circuit which if you look at the stats or read many of the open meeting reports on here which would suggest that the majority of classes have small turn outs for events of 10 or so boats.
At our H2 AGM this year we acknowledged that we are a small if growing fleet and having our own opens may not make total sense so we decided to combine our opens with other existing large events. Our Inlands this year will take place as part of the Draycote Dash for example as that way if you show up you are guaranteed good racing - hopefully against 20 or so other H2s but for sure there will be a big handicap fleet and some good racing as a result. As we get more H2s launched we may well revisit this but for a class that can expect to see 10 boats show up to an open does it not make more sense for the club and for the sailors that it is part of a bigger event.

To your point about Summer events that this could latch into - I think you have a point but there are events like POSH which may not be totemic as the winter series but they are out there. Or why not hook into one or two days of the various dinghy weeks that seem to be in resurgence? I think there probably are coastal events in the summer that this could link into.