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    Posted: 27 Feb 12 at 10:30am
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Originally posted by ex laser

glad to hear it went well even if a little more wind would have been welcome.


Duncan, you and Elaine should have come over. It was perfect British Moth weather!


it did cross our minds, but things got in the way. elaine did well in the club race on sunday to prove your point.

me, i did rubbish.
nothing the matter with the boat. it was the correct boat for the conditions. the problem was all down the helm! Cry

anyway like i said before, glad it went so well Smile and hope you can calm the windsurfers down Wink


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Having the deepest draft boats at the event, the B14s found the venue fine and race turn around on Saturday was slick. Could have done with finishing earlier on Sunday as it turned into a late drive home south but the lack of wind did not help. We touched bottom between races drifting off the course area but only a little mud on the tip which we wiped off. Great event but tough on the faster PY boats. Conditions could not really have been better to match the course on Saturday and Sunday wind was a little patchy but stilled enjoyed it.
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Originally posted by Steve411

Top event, well run. Well done to all concerned with the organisation. Several of us sailed over the shallow area on the way to the start. There was plenty of clearance. No problems despite certain elements suggesting it was virtually unsailable.

I don't think anyone suggested it was 'virtually unsailable' Steve, just that precaution over the shallow spots would be needed and confirmation that the reservoir is teetering around half full as featured on the BBC news recently.  This hopefully gave folks the information they needed to judge for themselves how suitable the event would be for them with the temporary shallow water situation Draycote currently suffers from.

So already a B14 and an MPS are confirmed to have touched bottom- good job there wasn't much wind and they weren't going at full tilt, just like another member who was also sails an MPS and 800 did and he ended up breaking his nose!

But whatever, it does sound like it was an incredibly well managed event, both on and off the water and as I said in a previous post, the race officer is very experienced and would avoid the areas for the racing:

Originally posted by rogue

.... the problem is the buoyed area ain't so easy to spot at 20 knots. 

I'm sure the race officer will do his best to avoid the dodgy spots...




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Rogue, you seem to be missing the point. The racing area was fine and we and Andy only touched when we stayed way off the course area and ended up on the NE shallow area. Navigational error. Interestingly several boats capsized and masts did not touch bottom, so must be deep in places.
Race management was slick and well run.
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I'm pleased that went ahead and everyone clearly enjoyed themselves - interesting results.

Had my first race in the boat of joy, with me stuck in some mud as the gun went, I remember thinking of you lot at the time, that's a first for me, the joys of inland, stuck in the mud with no wind, still better than stuck down tide with no wind eh? AT least they raced we wouldn't have even set the marks in the wind we had sunday morning.


EDit oh and I came last again, beaten by Merlins, Streakers, just about every kind of  coffin dodgers craft going in case you were wondering, but I've got loads of excuses. Wink LOL


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So thank you Draycote - it was as good as regular large estuary sailing and absolutely fine for racing imho.  We intentionally sailed over the main 'shallow' several times to check it  and there was plenty of depth - everything was also better buoyed than any estuary in my opinion.   We'd have liked a longer beat  from further back down the lake in fact but that is just a minor 'wish' really. 

The forecasters of doom ... shame on you .. you probably put off quite a few visitors from some very good racing especially on Saturday when we got sunshine, relative warmth and a great bit of breeze ! Unless you perhaps had a VERY long dagger and/or strayed into the well marked areas there was no problem. 

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Barnsie- no I'm not missing the point, I'm in fact congratulating the team for keeping the race course off the shallows.  Something I said I thought would happen given the calibre of the race officers.    

I now understand there was also a separate safety boat at one of the particularly shallow spots as well as plenty of general safety cover.  It's good to know Draycote kept it safer than ever.  The club has an exemplary safety record and one of the main reasons why we are more than willing to pay a (relatively) high membership fee.  To have the kind of professional back up you guys saw first hand 363.5 days a year is not without cost, but it is 100% worthwhile to all its members, even those naive enough to think they don't need it.....  yet.
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Rogue,

Whether you intended it that way or not your posts have come across as negative (depthor forecast).  I really hope no-one was put off and missed out on a great event because of them.
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Just realistic matt - where were all the local sailors? We have the biggest fireball fleet in the country, youths in 29ers, loads of freds and several 49ers... few showed up and they don't have the drive to do.

Anyway it was a successful event, and RO did brilliantly to keep you off the putty and Saturday's breeze looked far better than windguru predicted.
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RO did a great job - but the shallows were irrelevant given that there was enough space for a course in the top of the lake.

It makes me laugh listening to all the whining about missing them with a daggerboard, or not guageing the line right when under assymetric.  What do people think happens in say Chi or Poole harbours where there are shallows and the depth changes as the tide goes in and out twice a day, not once every two years.
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