i was just wondering how many of you where thinking of doing the tiger trophy i think it is a good event to go to and i am looking foward to it if i can find any one that wants a crew

so if any one wants a crew for it just pm me

I was planning to go but have never been before.  What type of races do they have?

i only wached last year and it looked grate fun and i said i will do it nexted year

but the boats i have will not be varey good for it so im wanting to crew for some one in it

in some kind of skiff 49er 29er 800 or somthing like them

i hop it can find some to do it with any offers

not a chance.

Did anyone else do this event. To be honest I didnt know much about it till I got a call on weds nite asking if I coul ddo it. But must say im looking foreward to finding some one to sail it with next year.

But I do have to say it wasnt very windy at all.

i didnt go this year but it sounds like all the opens that usually have massive wind havent had any like the bloody mary this year was a drift but at least the tigger had some sirt of wind. well done to eveyone that was in it. 

Details here - not much wind

http://www.rutlandsc.co.uk/TigerPhotos2006.php - http://www.rutlandsc.co.uk/TigerPhotos2006.php

Rick

215 or so boats, naff all wind.  One race Saturday and another two on Sunday - no pursuit race. The pictures give a fair impression of the conditions except the big shifts and bands with no wind!

Big suprise was that although conditions suited slower hikers as opposed to trapeze asymmetrics, due to an unfortunate set of circumstances, the slower boats didn't do as well on H'cap as expected.

I think that was due to the fast fleet starting the race with wind then five minutes later the slow fleet started and it had died down apart from the very last race where the slow fleet did pretty well

in the first race on saterday the first fast handicap boat came 42nd so you can hardly say it was biased for the fast fleet, you have to remember that the boat that won it (29er) was sailed by paul brotherton (olympic sailor) and mari sheperd (ex 29er european champion). It was a pretty crap event this time in terms of racing in my opinion

A 49er won the first race the first slow handicap was 24th a phantom

2nd race was won by a phantom where they did dominate the quickest fast boat was a fireball in 41st

3rd race was won by a 29er with 8 out of the top ten boats were fast handicap boats. I do think that this race was the fairest race all having the same wind all the way through.

I thought the racing was ok just let down by the poor wind. Top tiger dinner defiantly made up for it.

The first race was dominated by Fast H'cap with a Phantom the best of the slow in 20 something. In that race, the slow fleet had less wind for longer, they had to try and pass half the 'faster' boats (Most with bigger sails and hence windshadows), and finally most of them were caught up in what must be the biggest raft I've ever seen at the last leeward mark. The noise from that was interesting. It started with a few calls for water/no water etc. Escalated to louder shouts, with more and more getting involved and became a crescendo of shouts, abuse and general noise as about 100 boats rafted up.

Best sight was the guy who was jammed between two yoof squad types who were having a hard time accepting there was nowhere to go. He just threw his tiller and main away and lit up a cigar. Class.

LOL yeh there were some HUGE rafts at leeward marks. I saw a twinky which ended up going round the wrong side of the mark backwards because there was nothing else they could do. lol