Fair Play?

Originally posted by iGRF A short board, apart from dragging its owner to the side of the water and beating him/her senseless is no different to a foiling moth don't they vary just a tad between speeds on and off the foils, it doesn't stop y'all accommodating them. Then given half the pilots are ex windsurfers anyway, what's the problem in giving kids like Genna a crack at the chocolates? In this case the Cats are always walking off with them. Windsurfers are never going to adopt a yardstick system, this would just allow clubs should they desire to swell the numbers of their events (without creating extra waterside parking of trolley issues I might add)extra income potential, there are lots of kids that have passed through the Team fifteen system that have nowhere to go since the RYA dumped them. If your club is so full you don't need them, fair enough but from what I've seen an influx of single handers with no impact on the boat park wouldn't be a bad thing, seems like a no brainer to me.

If your handicap were so perfect, I'd accept all the bullsh*t, but I know every bit of its idiosyncrasies, we also have issues, between Raceboard and say RSX which differ as much as Phantoms in the light inland and in a force 4 in waves against a Contender for example.

It's never going to be perfect, what's wrong at the moment is the wild shifting about to suit pondies, that we wouldn't want to see, once a board has a handicap that should be it unless there is a performance change, moving it around just because a new bunch of muppets on bogs worth sc have decided to submit returns or an organisation has decided to take over the world in the winter linking previously disparate events into one series of hot shots and pro's, no we wouldn't like that at all.

I see windsurfing as a sport that fundamentally requires travel- you go where the wind takes you and to hell with a fixed agenda set by the committee or the windguru effect spoiling your plans.  Hence why a travel plan to hit the south coast got changed last minute to Rutland on Sunday for me....  

Well I can see both views and agree both ways, Grumpf the windsurfer says f**k em all they're dinghy sailingt**ts, they have no idea, but Graeme Fuller the commodore of Hythe & Saltwood Sailing Club has to manage his membership requirements and it was that man that was disappointed for one of his members. H&SSC do regularly race boards and dinghies in concert and we would like to encourage participation after team fifteen for our kids. The commodore of IOSSC is equally bereft that we were upset and wishes to help next year, so those two sensible folk are talking, he has historical participation of Boards and is eager to encourage more.

It's a number assigned to a craft, what possible harm could it do? Just another option you can ignore if you wish whilst you concentrate on banjo playing lessons for the retarded, Wayfarers ffs why would you? Unless, hmm let me think, what's that smell? Not more banditry...

Edited by iGRF - 02 Sep 14 at 11:25am

Don't tell me that doesn't happen already, I bet there were any number of boats that looked at the forecast and didn't show. You can't differentiate, every argument you make can be countered by similar differences between boats. I didn't notice any International canoes this year and they usually win. In fact i thought the medal for bravery should have gone to the dude in the RS300, talk about mission impossible has it got a centreboard even? I didn't see a single B14, or Musto Skiff or RS800 and they've all been present in the past.

And you cracking on about skill, nobody is going to enter a 40+ mile race like that unless they have the minerals, they might not be a river dwelling tide rat, but they will have had what it takes to do that so would a racing windsurfer especially on a day like saturday.

Edited by iGRF - 02 Sep 14 at 12:10pm