How much would you pay for a Nationals???

300 for a weeks access to a top clubs facilities, a load of socials, launching and recovery, saftey cover, storage, racing and on top of that you have all the ISAF bells and whistles etc ect. Sounds like they've just subsidised your sailing holiday! All you have to do is turn up, pitch your tent and have a good time.

Who sails to save money anyway? Who goes on holiday to save money? If you want a cheap international event, you picked the wrong hobby. Perhaps you should try the Scrabble world championship.

Quit whining, grow a pair and go sailing. You work for a reason, and it's to spend your hard earned on buying and doing what you love best in this materialistic and consumeristic world we live in. Most of you, I'm sure, deserve it. BAM!

Originally posted by Doug.H Originally posted by Neal_g its sad i find that most of the people who sail want everything for free and dont expect tohave to put anytihng back.. Then you're hanging around with the wrong people. The sailors I meet and myself all put quite a lot back into sailing. Also, I don't know anyone who expects anything for free. Sounds like a wildly unfair generalisation.

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I agree it's not the point wanting something for free I have never been to a sailing event that was free? I have done many nationals and a couple of worlds and they have all cost a lot less then the stated amount. I wonder whether it's because of the venue the reason for the significantly high entry fee? Rather than the other cost's? I Did the Tasar Nationals at Babbacombe and it was a great and well organised o and significantly cheaper. Am i right in understanding that you have to do this years nationals to qualify for the worlds or is that wrong?

Well put Neal, i agree completely.  I would rather pay the money and get a top class event.  I'm not sure how often the Taser worlds come to the UK, but i should imagine its only once every four years! Do the maths and work out how much you would have to save each month.  This is after all a WORLD championship's (isn't it) i suggest people look at how much it is to enter even a local motor sport event!!! 

 

Keep up the good work Taser boys, I'm sure it will be an absolute cracker!

 

Rick are youdoing the world in your new investment?

nicely put.

Thank you everyone for the interest you are showing in the 2011 Tasar World
Championships.

I am surprised that it is generating such a heated discussion. If someone really wants to come to the event and
they think we are charging too much would it not be better to talk directly to us than to discuss it in a Forum. We
can and will work with people to help.

At the moment no one is sponsoring the event except the worlds team through their huge effort organising the
event (finding judges, organising: sailing, five social events, dinners, and prize giving. Finding good quality
accommodation for maybe 320 people...),. Its a huge task and they are doing a great job.

Sponsors are very few and far between today. Sponsors need to get a lot more than we can give them for their
money now. The people paying for this event are those who want to host and to enter it. The way some of the
Tasar members are behaving is not helpful to the event or to themselves.

We are easy to contact you can find how to contact us on the:
Contact information page, please do if you have any ideas or
requests.



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