Winter Racing at your club - 1 or 2 day?

Simple question really - my club runs winter racing on both saturdays and sundays on a weekend without fleet discrimination - i.e. so you get general handicap racing on both days. My view is that this just splits the fleet across both days and thus  reduces turnouts so I think we'd be better running racing on just one day per weekend over the winter.

Of course the converse opinion is that if people can't make sunday then they can sail sat and vice versa, but given that we're struggling a little for OOD's I don't see the benefit of running 2 days of racing. Saturday just gone we had 6 volunteers running racing for 10 sailors....

So simple question - what does your club do over the winter. Just Sunday racing, Just Saturday racing, Both, Follow the tide or what?

Thanks in anticipation.

At Hunts we sail all year round. There are 4 seperate series run from Novemeber to April.

Sorting the duty crews out is easy, it is run on a voluntary system but the caveat is that you must duty for at least 1 race in each series in order for your results to count for that series.

On the whole it works quite well. we did trial allocated duties through the winter last year but there were a few problems so we went back to the old way.

It makes sense if you think about is as those who sail in the winter will generally have the correct kit for doing OOD/Rescue in the winter.

Which one are you then Grumpf..... or are you the 3rd type who gets out their pipe and slippers and sits in front of the fire until it warms up?

Originally posted by jeffers Which one are you then Grumpf..... or are you the 3rd type who gets out their pipe and slippers and sits in front of the fire until it warms up?

I have been known to cut some moves on the dance floor of joy...

And I am waiting for some lame boat builder for about the third time in
my short career..

I haven't been out in a fortnight but I am on duty next weekend if they're
still racing, I've been away on business a bit lately.

However I do enjoy the break between New Year and clocks going
forward, rarely do much in that 'frostbite' period.

I'm looking for a venue to vacation over the Xmas period, anyone know of
somewhere warm with decent boats to play with?

Edited by G.R.F.

Burghfield: Racing on a Sunday only - just like the rest of the year.

Saturdays at Burghfield are set aside, either for Open Meetings (March / April / October) or for the large number of non-racers in the club, who get special sessions and assistance to help them move from "just learning" thru "great fun" to "maybe I will try racing".

Brightlingsea: Racing on a Sunday (handicap only) from end October to end December. The rest of the year has racing on both Saturday (mainly handicap) and Sundays (as much class racing as is possible).