Simple Racing Rules

Or Bytes....

Don't know, after two weeks with moderate drinking everyday, I'm kind of glad to be off the sauce... Just need to shift the 3kg I put on now grrrr!

Edited by kneewrecker - 17 Aug 15 at 10:45pm

Originally posted by Rupert Also, we can now just hit the mark, which means we don't have to round it at all, just sail close enough to tap it. Actually, I rather like that idea. Maybe you should HAVE to hit the marks. That would be a game changer, but as these rules will be used by plastic boats (all the wood ones will go back to using 1946 rules) it shouldn't be a problem. Of course this is pub talk, sadly minus the beer tonight.

... so any news on that Icon.

If there's one thing I'd like to see removed is that ghastly tactic of sailing another competitor down the fleet, never had it happen to me, but the first time I witnessed it funnily enough by an ex RYA dinghy squaddie type turned Windsurfer who then went on to be the RYA Olympic coach, it went down amongst us windsurfers like a ton of bricks and there were howls of derision, at the 1980 Windsurfer OD nationals, in order to secure a third place ffs. Very un sportsmanlike also un British in my then naive view of fair play in life. The Guy waited above the start line then sailed the other youngster down the pan, I've never had any respect for Ainslie either since watching him employ similar tactics, pathetic chicken sh*t way of getting victory in my book, rules or no rules, it totally sucks.

As to the simple rules, I think pretty much folk work out at club level what to observe and what to turn a blind eye to, as to wether we need the same rules as big boat and A/C big lawyer, big money yotters, er no we don't, what we need is a new organisation to administer small boat racing, run by enthusiasts, the way it used to be before the RYA became a corporation of jobsworths.

Edited by iGRF - 19 Aug 15 at 10:20am