The Grafham Cat Open 22/23 October

Originally posted by ASok

Originally posted by ASok

So I hear that some n*b-heads spoiled the event again. Sprint 15's throwing an impromptu prize giving in the car park for their fleet.

Shame that Grafham is the victim of this again. Not sure why it only happens here......or maybe not!  
 Yes - it is very frustrating. That is 3 years we have had malicious damage during the Friday / Saturday evenings. This year it happened on the Friday evening and a new £450 sign at the entrance to the Club was wrecked. As it happened before racing the commodore took the position at the briefing that if we did not catch the culpret there would be no prizes and the prize fund would be used to compensate the trader who had just bought the sign.
The damage was probably just caused by an individual or two. It is a really no win situation.
- The Grafham club members and organisers feel agrieved and say " why should we hold a Cat Open?"
- in previous years property in the village has been damaged and causes the village to feel hostile to the sailing club.
- this year the cat sailors taking part got no prizes from the sailing club and they feel unhappy with the club. Undoubtedly 99%+ of the cat sailors had nothing to do with it.
You can see the position from all sides.
The sooner we find the responsible parties and stamp it out the better. Meanwhile the future of the cat open is in the ballance.............. 
Bob

PS It is such a shame as the weather and racing was superb this year. One traveller said to me " I had forgotten how good racing at Grafham can be.

Edited by Sprint Bob - 25 Oct 11 at 11:04am