Bloody Mary

yet you were sailing on a reserviour (I know that's spelt wrong) all you have t do is follow the bank....... And even at Queen Mary with it's horseshoe shaped bit of water it can not be that hard

GPS Watches are down to class rules.... they are not disallowed in a lot of classes. 

Originally posted by Jon711 yet you were sailing on a reservoir (I know that's spelt wrong) all you have t do is follow the bank....... And even at Queen Mary with it's horseshoe shaped bit of water it can not be that hard

 

Jon how about you stop commenting on situations you have no idea about, and get off your arse and go sailing!  The facts are i have been sailing for over 20 years, i have competed in hugely different conditions and at a variety of levels and classes, I have however never raced in the bloody Mary until today, the conditions were horrible with freezing fog etc.  I was told to launch by the Marshall's from a different part of the horseshoe, i had not sailed on Queen Mary before to realise how big the peninsula was, neither was it easy to predict the wind speed on the lake, due to a lack of visibility.  A GPSS position on a lake is ridiculous and yes i found the start line in the end obviously unfortunately i was very, very late, i could not of physically prepared for the race anymore, in hindsight i would have told the Marshall's i was launching where everyone else was and that would have saved me the time to get to the start line.  My only groan was that idiots in the rescue boat not helping me out with an angle!!

Originally posted by Jon711 GPS Watches are down to class rules.... they are not disallowed in a lot of classes.

I think that the class rules will tell you if and when you can use them at CLASS events, but at an event such as the BM, class rules are overriden by anything the the events Sailing Instructions.

If your class let you have a GPS, but the SI's say you can't have one .. the SI's will win. If they don't mention it and your class allows them, check with the RO .. It could be they are adding an amendment, or they just don't care.

RE the BM ... It was cold. Thats all I have to say. (And I didn't even go on the water!!)

If im correct it is a single handed dinghy which dan holman designed and I helped build last year (built at Synthesise Yachts and Design). At the time we built it he didnt have a name for it, but I guess you could compare it to a laser, however is a bit longer and made out of carbon, with a very nice seamless hull joiint. Hull weight of just over 40kg's