clubs

Thanks Biddy, You were always a great Blesso supporter.
Ballyholme ? We always make sure that we get up to at least one event a season.
Are you organising the Christmas P U ?

My mistake - it is all about the beer.

Best club I have been to recently is Swords, just north of Dublin. The sailing area is the smallest that cats could reasonable sail in, it's only 4 ft deep and the committee boat is the strangest looking vessel afloat.

But the sailing was great and the social awesome. Many thanks to all a SSBC!

Hope all Hurricane sailors will come back to Ballyholme next summer if the Class Association can make up its mind about European Champs. If you don't sail Hurricanes - beg, steal or borrow and come over.

It is the cat sailors themselves that define the event as much as the club. At the 2003 H59 Europeans we took £3000 one night across the bar. At last year's Laser Irish Nationals the figure was £300 for about the same number of competitors. Of course, it's not all about the beer.

The all round weekend open event of the year for me has to be Canvey Island

Huge boat yard with electric hook up for the vans

My own personal shower block 5 yards from the van

The club house and bar 20 yards away, complete with bouncy castle outside for the kiddies

Complimentary bottle of wine with dinner

Sensible start times due to the tide being out allowing good hangover recovery time.

And to top it all off, a barbecue in the boat yard with cheeseburgers while you packed your boat away on Sunday.

And of course all the friendly crew who put us up for the weekend

PS Ballyholme, Stone and Pagham all great too