Is Racing Allowed?

Originally posted by Chris_H Originally posted by iGRF   It might not be life and death for some of you but it's pretty damn high on the very short list of things that keep me happy to get out of bed every day. Graham, I have sparred with you here recently. I do feel for where you appear to be - I am in that headspace myself, though I am much more enjoying re-discovering sailing as opposed to racing. If you have blown out 2 clubs, maybe it isnt them???  Anyway, take care. Its a difficult time for us all.

Er, you really will have to try harder before you take the Dunce cap off and come and play with the rest of us boys...

I didn't say, I'd 'blown out' two clubs, I said I'd lost one and the other has us still locked out. The one has been priced off its lake b y a new owner/franchisee for the agregate/backfill the lake provides two 40% fee uplifts one after the other raising the annual membership from 100 to 350 in two years which has driven off most of the club members. The other club are just terminally risk averse, because it either suits them to do nothing or they are just not that interested in the sailing element in the club since everything else works without tedious stuff like rescue boats, briefings etc.

As to people who 'sail' just for sailings sake, fine, lots of us garden, watch grass grow as well, but it's not why we come on this forum, or dwell on this thread, which is about racing, so you're wrong, keep the cap on.

Edited by iGRF - 18 Jun 20 at 7:36pm

Originally posted by Chris_H Good lord. and there was me offering the handshake.....

Don't go taking that seriously now.. there was a little winky icon which means it's meant in jest and nobody would take the trouble to type all that bollox, if they didn't appreciate your input... So handshake taken.

Originally posted by iGRF  Don't go taking that seriously now..

Originally posted by The Moo Originally posted by zeon Rupert, think your experience of sailing with your other half is slightly different than mine. My wife has been sailing for forty years and I have been sailing for thirty. We racing against each other in the same class of boat ( at the moment) week in week out at our club and have only ever had words on the water  a couple of times  in all that time.  But put us in the same boat ............ we cannot even leisure sail together,  never mind actually race 😂😂😀 I believe you manage to sit on the same sofa for Virtual Racing, so it's not all bad.😂😂

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Edited by zeon - 01 Oct 20 at 12:31pm