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    Posted: 23 Jan 07 at 6:39pm

Sailing is a difficult sport to cover from a media point of view but we have made considerable progress with getting coverage for the 12 Foot Skiffs. If you really want to see decent coverage of your sport then I suggest you keep an eye on our progress or better still get involved.

Have a look at http://www.12footskiff.com
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Sailing CAN be a fantastic spectator sport. It just needs the right people with the ability to put it across to landlubbers and sailors at the same time. YES it is possible.
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Strangler

I take your point, the footage seems to have missed quite a lot of the fun and games that I saw sailing round the course.

 

Could it be part of a wider issue - sailing is not necessarily a spectator sport?  (Dons helmet and retires under the desk)

 

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Welcome to the rant-line.

Did I miss something or was the sail.tv coverage on y&y appauling. Boats milling around before the start for 2 minutes seems to be the extent of it. I would be embarrased to put my name to it. Ain't sail.tv supposed to be experts at covering our sport?  Or is it just a preview. If so why bother it doesn't cover the product in glory. The was plenty of action.

I dispair at most tv coverage of our sport. The best productions are done by amateurs, the sailors themselves.
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If you take another look at news page which featured the event, they have added the results for all 50 participants.

 

 

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Any Chance of the results as they stand as a member of our club took part and we would like to tell other members how he did .

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apparently there was a bit of a mess up with the results.......
lifes to short to sail slow boats!

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That Fireball really was going as fast as it looked - only trapeze boat in the top ten - and without one of its wires for the last lap. The gap to the B14's wasn't changing lap by lap either, so far as I could see.

Very impressive.
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I see we now have the top ten results on the news section. Its a shame with it being a Y&Y sponsered event the full results are not there to see.
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Posts: 79 		Post Options Post Options   Quote glewis Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16 Jan 07 at 12:19pm

Not really the type of water that lends itself to high speed skiffs, or A-Class Catamarans - I was tootling downwind at a genteel pace and that thing was flying!  Must be very impressive when it's got enough space to really move.

 

 

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