Poole week Skiff class racing

Hi to all high performance yotties

There will be a High Performance (Skiff) series within Poole Week this year. Run between the 27th August and the 1st September there will be excellent racing and social activities for everyone. Look at the web site at www.parkstoneyc.co.uk for further details. There is an expanding skiff fleet at Parkstone which is very keen to attract new participants. Poole harbour is a great venue and we are a pretty hospitable lot.

Edited by Mike Pascall

I will try and atend with the 14 or the 4k depends on if tht is classified as a skiff?

Scottish Skiff Racing ran a poll on the yahoo group to see what people thought the difinition of a 'skiff class' should be. This is what the the result was...

What is a skiff?

There is no clear definition of a skiff so we polled the Scottish Skiff Racing members and we came up with the following definition.

Monohull Asymmetrics with a PY of 930 or less AND Monohull single-sailed boats with a PY of 990 or less.

This means the following boats currently fit with the above definition.

18ft Skiff, 49er, RS 800, Laser 5000, Boss, Int. 14, RS700, International Canoe (with kite), Musto Skiff, B14, International Canoe (no kite), Laser 4000, Cherub , RS600, 29er, ISO, Spice, Cherub: Current design - single-wire, International Moth (non-foiling), and VORTEX.

(The above classes section may be slightly out of date now)

I personally think that this definition is pretty good and includes all boats which i  would consider a skiff class.


Edited by 29er397

O yer, and this:
http://www.sailinganarchy.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=364 63

Originally posted by 29er397 nope its not up to SSR to 'decide' however they must have some form of definition otherwise someone could turn up in a topper and call it a skiff. I thought i would just say what SSR's defnition/collective opinion on the matter is.

They practicaly do!
The adverts for the 500 proclaim it as skiff...so im assuming then that a 3000 is a skiff? and a buzz? what about a hobie 405? a feva?

I think the SSR needs a skiff 'definition' and what they have is about as good for the job as possible, but the use of 'skiff' has gone gar too far as a marketing term