Another club closure

Originally posted by Sussex Lad We could bat this one backwards and forwards ad nauseum Eric. I know what used to get discussed on here and by whom, it was more diverse in those two respects by a country mile and if you were here you know it.

An alternative way to put it is that we see things as we are not as they are. I was there, I don’t see it as you do. It is perhaps explained that once upon a time non-dinghy racer posters were 5% of 1000, but now they are 5% of50. So posts from them don’t pop up very regularly.

Originally posted by davidyacht Also worth considering the roots of Yachts and Yachting ... back in the heyday Y&Y was firmly about racing.  It is fair to say that Yacht Racing was also well reported.  I purchased Y&Y for the Bob Fisher and Jack Knights columns, Straham Soanes profiles, race reports and the classifieds.  I think that there was scant mention of anything to do with cruising.

Originally posted by davidyacht Maybe this is the key point is that Handicap racing may be a more dip in and out of thing.

Conversely, you can learn things about 'sailing' the first time you cruise out of sight of land, or at night, which you will never encounter in a 1 hour race around a lake. The game of rounding a mark in a fleet of Lasers is one aspect of sailing, there are other equally fulfilling games like making an efficient passage around the tides of the Channel Islands. Being on port tack at the windward mark of a Merlin Open can feel like a safe warm place, compared to sailing into a busy port.

Originally posted by turnturtle Originally posted by Grumpycat I think you have summed yourself up quite well tt, Me I am just boring never a truer word said on this forum