Club Class Size
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Topic: Club Class Size
Posted By: Chew my RS
Subject: Club Class Size
Date Posted: 16 Jan 06 at 3:32pm
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My club regularly (i.e. every week) gets 25 Lasers racing during the Wednesday evening series (May -Sept), with over 50 doing at least one race in the series. Can any other club boast such high numbers racing regularly in one class? |
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Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 16 Jan 06 at 3:42pm
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Its been a long time since ive been down during the racing but im sure farmoor gets a similar sized laser fleet out most weeks. Which club are you reffering too? ------------- |
Posted By: Chew my RS
Date Posted: 16 Jan 06 at 3:49pm
Chew Valley (hence the name )
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Posted By: Contender443
Date Posted: 16 Jan 06 at 3:58pm
Is that all full rigs? If not then it is 3 separate classes as they all have different handicaps. At Lancing we have fleets of 10 to 15 full rigs plus a couple of Radials and a couple of 4.7s. Not bad for a club that only has about 110 boats in its compund of which about 50 are Lasers. ------------- Bonnie Lass Contender 1764 |
Posted By: Chew my RS
Date Posted: 16 Jan 06 at 4:04pm
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Yes, all full rigs. Not sure how many boats/Lasers we have in total, but its quite a few (membership of 550). |
Posted By: Prince Buster
Date Posted: 16 Jan 06 at 4:10pm
I'm sure several clubs frequently have similar numbers of oppies out but do they really count??
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Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 16 Jan 06 at 4:52pm
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Grafham get around 50 lasers at a peak throught the year.
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Posted By: nick.r
Date Posted: 16 Jan 06 at 7:45pm
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yeah oxford (farmoor) has 20+ most weekends
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Posted By: HannahJ
Date Posted: 16 Jan 06 at 8:00pm
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30 - odd gp14s in the summmer and 20 even now
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Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 16 Jan 06 at 8:11pm
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we also get around 15 flying fifteens most w/ends at Grafham ------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 17 Jan 06 at 7:08pm
| us sea sailors get about 10 lasers out on weekends but they all change rigs. but generaly they all race with same rig. its a shame cos we have near 1000 members and alot of boats but theres only about 20-30 boats race. and never all at same time. maybe we need a better start line. im from Hill Head btw. |
Posted By: Noidea
Date Posted: 17 Jan 06 at 10:11pm
| welll................. at chipstead sc we get a good 30 laser fulls out every sunday morning with about 50 taking part over the series.... something bout a pipe and smoke it...lol |
Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 18 Jan 06 at 4:31pm
| we have a lot of members but the club is quite small. there are cruiser members too. |
Posted By: stuarthop
Date Posted: 18 Jan 06 at 9:43pm
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we get 1 cherub and 3 scorpions and 10 solos n a few other boats ------------- |
Posted By: Olly4088
Date Posted: 19 Jan 06 at 5:52pm
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I know it might not sound like allot but we have 6 Albacore that regularly go out and when you sail on a river that isnt the widest at the best of times then it bocomes interesting. ------------- Phantom 1298 |
Posted By: BigFatStan
Date Posted: 31 Jan 06 at 7:24am
| Lymington Town regularly get 20-30 Wayfarers on Wednesday evenings in the Summer - mind you most of them rarely go out apart from Weds. Must be a contender for most weight in a class... |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 31 Jan 06 at 3:38pm
Do you get higher tides on a wednesday Stan?
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Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 31 Jan 06 at 4:14pm
Its all right as long as they stagger launching a bit and don't all hit the water together... |
Posted By: BBSCFaithfull
Date Posted: 31 Jan 06 at 7:24pm
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We get a total of about 1 4000 out on a weekned (us) does that count as a fleet? What about the occasional magical number of 2? ------------- Greatfully Sponsored By www.allgoodfun.com Int 14 GBR 1503!! |
Posted By: Rob.e
Date Posted: 31 Jan 06 at 8:47pm
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At HISC we get 15 to 20 Solo's out at the w/end, but if you add the ages up, I bet that would beat your Loser fleet... ------------- |
Posted By: Prince Buster
Date Posted: 31 Jan 06 at 9:20pm
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Well my club get around 50 boats out on any normal weekend except wen
it comes to cadet week when we get about 500 kids that you've never
seen before and you probably won't ever see again (unitl next year's
cadet week!) ------------- international moth - "what what?" |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 03 Feb 06 at 5:12pm
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yer i know what u mean. we get quite a few people out on sundays but they are all in the wrong class and we aree usally left to race by ourslfves but is all good fun and is a friendly clob ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: laser47
Date Posted: 18 Feb 06 at 6:33pm
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my club only gets about 30 boats max out on the water at any time (can't take much more either) ------------- |
Posted By: Prince Buster
Date Posted: 18 Feb 06 at 7:08pm
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You could have told us what club you sail at cos now im having to ask. What puddle can't you get more than 30 boats on?
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Posted By: BBSCFaithfull
Date Posted: 19 Feb 06 at 7:04pm
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Probably Tonbridge Town Sailing Club it's mini!
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Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 19 Feb 06 at 7:46pm
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Aquasports @ Mercers Park! Eh, Carshalton? ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC 
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Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 19 Feb 06 at 8:27pm
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grrrr in the summer i might even try and sail the 4k there. now that would be a sight. ps. bns is bared from mercers park ------------- International 14 1503 |
we have can have around 60 kids on the water at one time. and we have about 20ish boats out windsurfing and canoing etc. 
Posted By: laser47
Date Posted: 19 Feb 06 at 8:46pm
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sorry guys, i should have said. i sail at hawley lake sail training centre (HLSTC) which normally resembles a sludgy brown millpond (i.e manky water no wind). the actual lake isn't that bad it's just really shallow and theres these random islands so you cant have a lot of boats out on the water trying to start or sailing in a race because it gets really crowded especially when there's a bit of wind
why are you barred bns? ------------- |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 19 Feb 06 at 9:04pm
Then again, you might want to reconsider, since I'm going to get that Contender in April - you know, the boat you'd like to try out... ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC
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Posted By: BBSCFaithfull
Date Posted: 19 Feb 06 at 9:22pm
Yes Luke don't be so mean Especially since BNS is hopefully putting us us for a weeken in her new extension!  Thnx BNS ur a Gem ------------- Greatfully Sponsored By www.allgoodfun.com Int 14 GBR 1503!! |