Fair Play?

Originally posted by Chris 249 Originally posted by blaze720 When they went for 'unlimited pumping' ... yes turkeys really can vote for Christmas.  It killed longboard racing in the UK so be careful what you go for .... The pity ands frankly shame was the national  'authorities' - (UKBSA at the time and RYA)  could not see the logic that would ultimately lead to the effective demise of the sport as a 'mass activity' that had introduced so many into small craft racing.  In the day it could be run alongside regular dinghy racing at most clubs - it was seldem the clubs that got snooty about boards despite what you might here occasionally - it was the  morons who undermined the sport through not appreciating what they already had. Fools and their sport are soon parted .. perhaps. Yes I know it is a bit harsh - but heck it could have been so much better ..... Maybe a lack of clear vision was the problem.  The moment dinghy racing allows something along the same lines  - that it ... you  should run for the hills or maybe get a lead mine.  Mike L. Well said.

A bit late to talk about banning pumping when our Knighted Gold Medallist got there by pumping better than everyone else.
It's not easy on a dinghy, nor as effective as a sailboard because you can't 'stir' the rig to ensure constant airflow, the action is 'in' then wait then 'in' again obviously with a sit down rock to aid the 'in' stroke, whereas on a board as well as the in out movement, you can scoop fill, row, scoop fill row, then there is side to side row- gybe-row dead down wind, I wish I could have figured how to do it on that Icon down wind on saturday.

These aren't issues preventing access to the sport, the biggest preventer is lack of product sales points and training adults to use them, we have two new members both want boats and if someone doesn't close a deal with them before the summers over that'll be it we'll lose them.

Boats should have a margin to enable dealers to profit by their sale, which means you lot should pay more for them, like that's ever going to happen, so it then falls to clubs to muddle along trying to attract members, fighting the weather, trying to explain about the boat they used at Club Mark Warner and why they won't be able to lift it.

Or here's a wild idea, you incentivise clubs to 'sell' boats and bits it could be done online as part of an affiliate scheme, but there needs to be finance packages, 0% deals, trade ins, all the paraphanalia of modern retailing if you want more numbers and you've got to stop this stupid infatuation with old dross and wood, out here in the real world y'all look like eccentric anachronisms, or stay as you are and quit wondering why you're a dying breed.

Originally posted by winging it This is why clubs should provide more boats for hire.  It certainly has proved its worth at Hunts.

You can't buy anything worth having without waiting a lifetime, well at least well past the point that the impulse purchase decision is well faded and been replaced by white goods, furniture or other unnecessary domestic considerations weigh in.

On another tack, getting back to the handicap discussion that kicked this off have any of you ever had a good luck at This obviously being French they're totally wrong and we brits are right, but it does make some interesting reading.. Haven't managed to find any planchistes yet, but I keep looking.

Edited by iGRF - 03 Sep 14 at 10:26am

Colour? If you want it now, it is grey. Most people seem to want it anyway, so they can cheat on the start line and not get caught. Fit out? Have the hull there, do the fit out after the order comes in, ship it out 48 hours later. OK, if you get more orders than you have boats in stock, then there must be a delay, and I'd not expect a tiny company to have more than 1 ready to buy, but Laser, RS, Topper, Hartleys? Maybe they do?

If I go to Argos, I can get pretty much anything 5 minutes after I order it. I avoid places like DFS who seem to think ordering in sept and getting it by Christmas is somehow a fast turnaround. A good reason for buying 2nd hand. I go see it, inspect it, take it home if I like it. Simple.