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iiitick 
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 Topic: T.V.Posted: 04 Jul 14 at 1:06pm |
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With all these French blokes riding round Yorkshire on bikes and all this lawn tennis lark, not to mention football and cricket (a game of chance if ever I saw one) you would have thought that all these foiling Moths whizzing about in Weymouth may have made a spectacular item for TV?
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tgruitt
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Posted: 04 Jul 14 at 5:31pm |
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I'm sure it will make the local news, the Figaros made the news 3 or 4 times in Plymouth.
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Needs to sail more...
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GarethT
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Posted: 04 Jul 14 at 7:36pm |
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It will only make South Today if Sir Ben goes to watch.
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Roger
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Posted: 04 Jul 14 at 7:44pm |
Assuming your talking about the forthcoming International Moth Worlds don't send the cameras to Weymouth, the event is at Hayling. http://www.mothworlds.org/hayling/ |
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iiitick
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Posted: 04 Jul 14 at 8:42pm |
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It's all South to us Northern folk.....
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Chris 249
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Posted: 06 Jul 14 at 1:36pm |
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Aren't the vast majority of televised sports ones that the average person can relate to? Most people have ridden a bike or kicked a ball so they can relate to footie or the Tour. In contrast, even the typical sailor has not sailed a foiler.
I'm also not sure that foilers are all that spectacular to non-sailors; there's no flying spray and the tiny hulls and clear sails are not all that distinctive against a broken background. It's interesting to see the minutes of the International class AGM. The fleet numbers overall really aren't increasing much outside the UK; the last AGM said that there were just 122 new "official" boats last year, relatively flat membership growth and pretty small membership numbers in many countries (5 in Austria, 20 in France, 30 in the USA, only 10-15 boats expected or hoped to attend the 6 German regattas or Swiss racing, good growth in Italy, and no class in NZ any more). The boats are amazing, the PR is fantastic, the sponsorship and hype is enormous, the sailors are great, millions have been lost in promoting the class - and yet the growth is far smaller than in other classes. That seems to say a lot about where growth in sailing can come from - surely it's not to be found in the extreme classes. People like the head of Eurosaf call such classes the future of the sport but if that's the case, the sport is dead. Thank god grass roots classes are thriving.
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Rupert
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Posted: 06 Jul 14 at 8:24pm |
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The Moth appears to be the boat where pro sailors go to play these days. You won't find any on a small puddle in the cotswolds, as they would be tricky to sail in weed (amongst many other reasons). The Minisail was hard enough to keep the foils clear.
However, low rider moths are coming out of the woodwork and being sailed by normal sailing folk. |
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JimC
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Posted: 07 Jul 14 at 2:51pm |
Which is amusing when you think that the lowriders are basically harder to sail... |
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Rupert
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Posted: 07 Jul 14 at 3:04pm |
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I've always been rubbish at sailing winged Moths, and haven't sailed a flying one, so probably aren't the best person to comment on that, but I think failing to master a £500 30 year old Magnum 5 is a rather cheaper hobby than failing to master a £7000 (I assume that a decent 2nd hand boat coats about that?) modern Mot, with rather higher running costs.
The vintage of Moths I rather like didn't have wings, though, and while they fall over more easily than a Solo, say, are pretty easy to sail compared to either of the above. |
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kneewrecker
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Posted: 07 Jul 14 at 3:40pm |
Do you think that one day sailors, might, just might, accept that genpop think sailing is pretty dull and lame? Sure, you can change their minds if they get to experience sailing first hand, but I doubt youtube and sky rights are going to help much.
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