Sailing on TV

the proble with the sailing that is on tv is its all keel boats ok we may site and wach it with is good but for the most people that wach tv it dose not have much going on the reason most people wach sports like moter bike racing is to see the people fall off you reary get that in keel boat sailing but is theyt put 12 foot skiffs on tv people are more liky to wach it as people will go over

My sailing vocab is better in English than it is in French, because I've only ever sailed in England, with English speakers. However, the efforts I'm making to learn the correct terms in French seem to be a little pointless, as demonstrated in that "Team Nissan Hobie surfing video" in La Tranche. The French helm explains their capsize: "Le bateau, il a gybé tout seul et on s'est retrouvé dans la mousse."

Gybé......... Why bother....

Teeeehee..... I've got nothing to lose, eh?

useful.

But I do have to say iv got an equaly as useful comment TV5 is good for sailing sometimes but u have to b fluent in French

Thanks for the tip on ch 435.  Nice to see some sailing on TV!

However, you'd have thought that bearing in mind the cost of making a TV programme, they might just the script checked by a sailor first!  Just sat through a painful programme about the Copa del Rey 2004, translated from Spanish to English, and it included such gems as...

"At the end of the first close hauled, Caixagalicia was ahead...."

"All of the top rudders were at the regatta..."

"...and they were the first boat to cross the arrival line"

"It became a monotypical regatta...in other words you needed a bit of luck!"

"The boat has a very good compensation" (you mean handicap I take it?)

Dear oh dear...