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    Posted: 26 Jan 18 at 2:03pm
Originally posted by 423zero

, but anything like Draycote .


Which is why the club employ professional safefty crews for all the time the water is open- it is without doubt the best feature Of membership there.
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I don't recall any of us having to be rescued back in the day outside of organised racing when the club 'rescue' boat was on hand.
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"There was an old movie reel on BBC4 the other day about folk and boats in the UK in the sixties and half of them were wearing ordinary clothes and some out on the wire. The difference from those days to these is chalk and cheese and we wonder why participation in regimented 'fun' is dropping off. Treating people like idiots, wrapping them in cotton wool, it's bloody embarrassing to watch never mind be a part of, I'm sure if I had to endure all that there is absolutely no way I'd have anything to do with it." 

Hell yes! Back in the fifties and sixties men were men. Life expectancy of Grand Prix drivers (no namby pamby seatbelts) was about the same as a Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain.  The had the RIGHT STUFF, no doubt like the dinghy sailors of that era, (who were nevertheless had a better survival rate.)
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"Draycote and above", such as Rutland water, kids can be a long way from safety cover, not talking about organised sailing such as our saturday morning cygnets club.
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the best thing that could happen is for the Olympic funding for the Rya to be withdrawn. They could then get off the medal to survive treadmill and concentrate on teaching people to enjoy sailing and racing
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Originally posted by NickM99

"There was an old movie reel on BBC4 the other day about folk and boats in the UK in the sixties and half of them were wearing ordinary clothes and some out on the wire. The difference from those days to these is chalk and cheese and we wonder why participation in regimented 'fun' is dropping off. Treating people like idiots, wrapping them in cotton wool, it's bloody embarrassing to watch never mind be a part of, I'm sure if I had to endure all that there is absolutely no way I'd have anything to do with it." 

Hell yes! Back in the fifties and sixties men were men. Life expectancy of Grand Prix drivers (no namby pamby seatbelts) was about the same as a Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain.  The had the RIGHT STUFF, no doubt like the dinghy sailors of that era, (who were nevertheless had a better survival rate.)

I remember my dad making his own wetsuit from a kit of 5mm or so unlined neoprene...... I got neoprene socks as it was so expensive. You needed to cover your feet in talcum powder to get them on........... Needless to say the 'frostbite series' really lived up to it's name back then.......
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I wasn't paying that much attention back then, but was there really an epidemic of death by dinghy? Was it like skiing is now for instance? I watched this thing on the news last night, somehow some kid has managed to kill himself with an airgun, how that happened I can't figure for the life of me, but hey ho they're now on the got to be banned list, it just goes on this pathetic pc cottonwool world we're in. I hate to think what we're going to evolve into, some sort of pudding that operates a screen by all counts using vr games for excitement of what those tearaways did in the sixties seventies and eighties..

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Mirror dinghies averaged about 4,500 sales per year, mostly UK, Lasers more like 10,000, worldwide that is tho, (i just googled them, not guesses)

Larks sold over 100 per year, scorpions about the same, Toppers, Ents and GP14s probably ten times that

And thats just a few classes, numerous others were also getting numbers that RS and the like probably fantasise about today.

So far more new boat buying activity than today. 

and no, there was no such epidemic of death, far from it, even tho most of those boats were, almost by definition, going to total newbies

 


Edited by fab100 - 26 Jan 18 at 5:29pm
Great book for Club Sailors here
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IGRF,
Extreme sports.
Squirrel suits.
Downhill mountain biking.
Freefall from space.
Far from cottonwool, add many others, technology will give us more sports in the future, why can't we have thrilling sports but minimise the risk of death or worse ?
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I'm with iGRF on this one.
Bunch of f..... pussies. 
Risk averse in the extreme and bugger all common sense.
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