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    Posted: 16 Dec 13 at 11:16am
Originally posted by Gbr440

Given how many different classes there are now and how small some open turnouts are. Who thinks a similar summer series on sea venues would be a good idea??

definitely not... for whatever reason, and I certainly don't think by design or intention, these great individual events have been soured by the series concept, and have certainly changed the nature of them imho.      
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Thanks for that. Always a bit worrying when posted results don't quite look right and the phone numbers on the NOR have answer phone messages saying office closed for several days!!

Was a great weekend and is a really good series.

Given how many different classes there are now and how small some open turnouts are. Who thinks a similar summer series on sea venues would be a good idea??
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Originally posted by Gbr440

Am I alone in thinking the results for the pursuit don't stack up???? The most obvious is the number of people who didn't race Saturday who haven't had their points for DNC added to their final result??


Yes we are sorting these,  quite a few people turned up on Sunday who have not scored correctly -  had hope to do last night,  but didn't get home to very late due to lots of traffic issues in the bad weather

Any other results queries please email Mike Ridley :  mike.ridley@sailracer.co.uk
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Am I alone in thinking the results for the pursuit don't stack up???? The most obvious is the number of people who didn't race Saturday who haven't had their points for DNC added to their final result??

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a painter... my god, I haven't heard that word since the 1992 Optimist Nationals in the Mumbles.

Why did they go so out of fashion?  Every dinghy had one in the 80's, even windsurf boards from that era have an attachment point for one!


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Originally posted by yellowwelly

can't even leave them for 10 seconds to take your trolley back to the edge of a reservoir

Its funny though, if I were to put a 15ft or so "painter" on my trolley it would make all sorts of beach handling easier, even to just making it easy for any passing spectator to pull the trolley out of the water with dry feet, yet somehow I never get round to doing it...
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Was a good weekend sailing. Saturday was a challenge with the wind shifts and varying strength and yesterday was just epic hard work.

I have no idea about the results, lots of chatter, but well done Datchet for chucking your hat in and getting the event off the ground.
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It is particularly helpful now a lot of modern boats have such bad stable manners that you really can't even leave them for 10 seconds to take your trolley back to the edge of a reservoir without them falling over, or worse, causing all sorts of carnage or sailing off.  
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My baptism of fire was the Billy No Mates many years ago - all single handers!  That's when you see the issues of the sailors having hassles with boat launching when they should be concentrating on the race ahead.
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Originally posted by Er-Indoors

Here's what I spent my morning doing - making sure trolleys all pulled up, no more than 2 deep and all numbered labels showing....


Well done - thank you. It's never easy in a single hander recovering your trolley when you come in.
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