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iGRF 
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 Topic: Dinghy Show 2017Posted: 23 Feb 17 at 7:47pm |
It would be the last time lots from the South Coast would bother, Birmingham is the absolute pits of hell, I don't think there's a single thing that would persuade me to venture there for pleasure, it was bad enough when work forced trips there. |
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Sam.Spoons
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Posted: 23 Feb 17 at 8:08pm |
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Typical Southerner, anything north of Watford is labled "here be dragons"
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iGRF
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Posted: 23 Feb 17 at 8:32pm |
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Nope we also used to enjoy our annual trade show when it was in Manchester, a great city, then it moved to Telford, also quite fun, that Ironbridge is quaint and the beer not too expensive, it's just Birmingham that sucks, probably just ahead of Liverpool in vying for the ultimate title - City Hell on Earth.
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Sam.Spoons
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Posted: 23 Feb 17 at 10:22pm |
 TBF I almost agree........ (but as a Lancashire lad, from when Manchester was in Lancashire I suppose I'm honour bound)........
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turnturtle
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When will HS2 complete....? You could in and out of Brummie within a day, balti'd and lagered up to your eyeballs.... of course you need to be careful Graeme;,according to Trump supporters the entire city is run by Islamic State... but I'll lend you my Douglas Gill Hijab, you'll be fine.
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gordon1277
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Posted: 24 Feb 17 at 8:40am |
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The central Southcoast could definetly get to Birmingham easier than North East London.
Isnt there a good location near Warwick for smaller show like the DiNGHY Show? |
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pompeysailor
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Posted: 24 Feb 17 at 10:27am |
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I predict that the Dinghy Show organisers will (try to) tag onto the Boat Show at ExCel (heard it here first)
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boatshed
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Posted: 24 Feb 17 at 10:40am |
If it's to be tagged on to a boat show, then make it the Soton show. If I never have to go to ExCel again, I'll be very happy.
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iGRF
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Posted: 24 Feb 17 at 10:43am |
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Those idiots that run the Boat show couldn't organise the proverbial pee up in a Brewery, they stumbled across the perfect synergy for a couple of year with the combination of Boat, Cycle & Outdoor which certainly gave the Cycle element a boost and brought a diverse group of visitors to add a touch of hair colour to the increasing grey wash that ran through the corridors of previous years, then they lost it, the bike show moved to join the motorcycle show and the Boat show continued back into oblivion. I very much doubt having dinghys alongside will do anything for either camp, there's no way the classes could afford Excel and the commercial stands that didn't already exhibit at the Boat show, would never cope with the staff, accommodation and stand rental costs. Nice idea, but unlikely model to succeed plus bad timing, the Boat Show lost the plot when they moved away from that dead week between Xmas and New Year.
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iGRF
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Posted: 24 Feb 17 at 10:51am |
That could be sensible if there's room, it's a bit 'still in the season' and lacks that early spring excitement factor but it would give builders the opportunity to take forward orders to make hay through the winter with. Would classes be able to make it then? Is there not lots of other stuff going on? I only started going to the S'oton show in recent years and it always seems a bit of a 'last of the summer wine affair' only exhibited there once on the back of another company and it was quite literally a wash out. Not that exhibiting at the Dinghy show was necessarily a commercial success the few times we did it, but then I'm trying to keep some perspective here as a visitor, would I go? Probably yes I might in September especially if there were more racing dinghies there than the lamentable Osprey and a few Hartley leisure craft. |
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