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    Posted: 06 Apr 23 at 8:25am
Originally posted by davidyacht

Originally posted by RS400atC

Originally posted by fab100

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You seemed to have missed the point that David’s footer is “happily living in the past”

Seems more like miserably trying to drag everyone else back there?. If you want to live in the past, you're gone , the world has moved on.

I am told that a forum is meant to replicate bar chat, and it is fair to say most chat involves staring into the bottom of a pint glass discussing how things were better back in the day.

I challenge you to list the positives that are leading to a growth in dinghy racing right now?

To offer a positive, last weekend I raced in a club race with sixteen other one design boats, the fleet including several former national and world champions, as high quality club racing as I have experienced.  Sadly the boat was designed seventy years ago, and the average age of the helms was 65+  LOL … we had a great time though … hence the strap line

Am working on my eventual move into the neighbourhood so that I can help reduce the average age David, although not by much! Might even have to buy a solo one day just to come play with you guys from across the estuary
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Originally posted by davidyacht

Y&Y magazine made heroes of some very good sailors, as a nipper I looked up to the likes of Spud Rowsell and Alec Stone, both reported on and profiled in Y&Y, this inspired many of us to engage with the sport of dinghy racing.  Fortunately our sport allowed us to turn up on a start line to compete with our heroes, and occasionally, probably due to lucky shifts, one got to cross them on a tack now and again, this was all part of the package that encouraged me to engage with the sport for the next 50 years.  So yes, happily living in the past, of which Y&Y was an important part.

For me this is one of the attractions of the Sailjuice Winter Series (aka Great Lakes), lining up on the start line and having an Olympian on one side and a multiple world champion on the other still makes me giggle!
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Originally posted by davidyacht

Originally posted by RS400atC

Originally posted by fab100

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You seemed to have missed the point that David’s footer is “happily living in the past”

Seems more like miserably trying to drag everyone else back there?. If you want to live in the past, you're gone , the world has moved on.

I am told that a forum is meant to replicate bar chat, and it is fair to say most chat involves staring into the bottom of a pint glass discussing how things were better back in the day.

I challenge you to list the positives that are leading to a growth in dinghy racing right now?

To offer a positive, last weekend I raced in a club race with sixteen other one design boats, the fleet including several former national and world champions, as high quality club racing as I have experienced.  Sadly the boat was designed seventy years ago, and the average age of the helms was 65+  LOL … we had a great time though … hence the strap line

Is this where we start quoting the four Yorkshiremen sketch? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE
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Originally posted by RS400atC

Originally posted by fab100

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You seemed to have missed the point that David’s footer is “happily living in the past”

Seems more like miserably trying to drag everyone else back there?. If you want to live in the past, you're gone , the world has moved on.

I am told that a forum is meant to replicate bar chat, and it is fair to say most chat involves staring into the bottom of a pint glass discussing how things were better back in the day.

I challenge you to list the positives that are leading to a growth in dinghy racing right now?

To offer a positive, last weekend I raced in a club race with sixteen other one design boats, the fleet including several former national and world champions, as high quality club racing as I have experienced.  Sadly the boat was designed seventy years ago, and the average age of the helms was 65+  LOL … we had a great time though … hence the strap line
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Y&Y magazine made heroes of some very good sailors, as a nipper I looked up to the likes of Spud Rowsell and Alec Stone, both reported on and profiled in Y&Y, this inspired many of us to engage with the sport of dinghy racing.  Fortunately our sport allowed us to turn up on a start line to compete with our heroes, and occasionally, probably due to lucky shifts, one got to cross them on a tack now and again, this was all part of the package that encouraged me to engage with the sport for the next 50 years.  So yes, happily living in the past, of which Y&Y was an important part.

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I think even iGRFs worst trolling was nothing compared with the venomous posts that you see on some social media pages
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Exactly JimC.
Lack of respect for other peoples choices and opinions has been a major problem. eg. Laser bashing, probably the most commonly sailed dinghy in the country. 
Also absolutely having to be right and going on and on for pages, disagree and let it go.
I follow a FB group on "gravel biking" and that is kept thriving and happy by strict moderation of sneering and intolerance.
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Originally posted by 423zero

There, in less than thirty words is what is wrong with this forum....

Disagree completely.
The fundamental problem is it stopped being a place where people wanted to hang out.

Nostalgia for the past is very big business, so I submit that can't be the root, especially as there's no great sign of nostalgic content.

I severely limited my participation due to lack of moderation of posts that made serious accusations, and I submit that's part of it, but I also blame the scorn that was too often heaped on entry level boats, and effectively their owners. If you come to a forum with your proud new possession, and the first thing that happens is people tell you what a fool you were to get it, what are you going to do? What you are not going to do is pay any attention to what the person who's just rubbished your choice has to say. I remember investigating clubs back in the 80s when I was campaigning my Cherub reasonably seriously, and walking into the most local club to be told I should sell it and get a whatever. Of course I said very little and walked straight out again.



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There, in less than thirty words is what is wrong with this forum....


Edited to clarify, I was referring to the negativity of FAB' post, really none of his business what Davidyacht wants to post.

Edited by 423zero - 06 Apr 23 at 9:06am
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Originally posted by fab100

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You seemed to have missed the point that David’s footer is “happily living in the past”

Seems more like miserably trying to drag everyone else back there?. If you want to live in the past, you're gone , the world has moved on.
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