SNT Sailjuice

OK Guys - it's Sunday Morning and not a thing on the Forum about the Steve Nicholson Trophy. Are you are asleep - was it that hard an event?

Nick Craig was sailing an OK,  top 10 but still waiting on the results.

As ever a great welcome from Northampton SC. I always try to do this event and to remember Steve who was taken too soon.

Onto the sailing, I cant find any results either. Seems very odd that despite all the technology that is being thrown at this and other events results seem to be hard to come by. I'm sailing with my son, the goal is having fun, but finding out where you finished is part of that. This needs to be fixed for future events. It seems to be a new problem as I remember results being available in the past.

Also sad to see so many singlehanders being sailed by blokes. Sadly double handed sailing seems to be in major decline. What that seems to mean is fewer women sailing which is a loss.

Mixing doublehanders and assymetrics (including those sailed singlehandedly?) was not an ideal solution to the fleet size problem and I hope that is not repeated. I think a better separation would be fast / medium and slow. I certainly don't want to sail around with musto skiffs that can't keep a proper look out

Most memorable things of the day?
1 - The singlehanded mirror coming third in the doublehanders...
2 - The musto skiff sailing in a different class to the contender...
3 - The musto skiff whose leeward wing hooked a scorpion crew and then capsized them - I missed this, heard it in the bar afterwards
4 - The mid-fleet 49er trying to nip in on the port lay line at the first windward mark with inevitable consequences
5 - The handicap of the OK, which must be wrong in comparison to all the other singlehanders

Finally for winter events maybe we should do more pursuit races? It is more obvious who has won and saves all the number crunching faffing that must be going on.

OK handicap is reputedly nasty(results notwithstanding) . Some of the great and good of s/h sailing in them at the mo, so if they aren't at the very sharp end of mixed h/cap at least in light to moderate then it would indicate a dodgy handicap

I would say it's going to be hard to judge the ok handicap without seeing how they ended up in the results.  Also it's important to rememebr they were one of the slower boats in the single handed fleet and with the low mast height they get punished off the line by boats with more horse power.  They also don't seem to plane like other dinghies.  So they really struggled on courses that's were basically a reach run reach with a very, very small beat.