2013 GJW Direct Venue of the Year

Just tried.

We did consider allowing only one venue to be selected,  but with 41 venues and average attendance of 35 boats (and the majority of Nationals are well below the average attendance),  like the dinghy market,  the National Championships arena is very fragmented,  we felt better to allow people to select and rate their five favourite venues (doesn't mean you have had to sail there this year)

Originally posted by fab100 Just tried. But i only want to vote for 1, not 5, but it won't let me How many people have done 5 nationals in 2013?? Surely if you want to get to a proper appraisal of a Venue, you should get people who went there to appraise it across things like race management, facilities, socials, friendliness of the locals, value for money, locality, beer, food, facilities for non-sailors et al, then combine the relative results. Having us pick 5 random venues from a list is just nonsensical. As a sponsorship, brand association attempt, it sends the signal to me of "we don't do things properly, in fact we are cr&p." Sorry, but there it it. Please start again and do it properly as the outcome could be interesting

Well said Fab100

Well, I put in my 2 from this year (Hunts, then Northampton  - very close, but Hunts just had a bit more of a "family" feel to it - more like being welcomed to a friend's house) and then filled in some old favorite Firefly haunts from years gone by.

Agree, doesn't really work, though - by all means have a possible 5, but why the need to do them all?

Originally posted by winging it Thanks Rupert!  I also voted for Hunts, then spread my votes across my favourite clubs.  It is a very odd system though.

Presumably designed to make Sailracer look important?