New to sailing website

The content on the website looks really good, absolutley fabulous even!!,
but the interface and layout seem very
like one of these websites...
The kind you find when your domain cant be found... dont know if thats just
me though!

M**rosoft - testing!!! so I can't write Mic rosoft but can write IC what about MICR0SOFT (with a zero!)

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Anyway, looks ok but agree its very blue but then it looks fine, a little basic but thats probably what is required.

One thing though, it links to the forum, but all the posts are the wrong way up, so you have to read the bottom one first, surely it should be ther other way round?

Edited by radixon

ok so as I punter I went "where can I give this a go"

So I click on Try sailing "somewhere near to you". Then I have to select my continent then my country then I get told about the RYA then I link to the Y&Y club pages. I got bored clicking about 1/2 way thru and fell asleep! Can't it interogate my IP address and from that deduce I was in the UK?

ALSO - does it make sense to link just to sailing clubs - surely links to RTE's would be more valuable - i.e. I want a 'taster hour' - turn up and pay my £20 quid and give it a go on a sunny day. Surely RTE's are betty placed for that type of punter than clubs - ok so there is now a cross-over, but try turning up at the local puddle club on a tuesday arvo - will the gate even be open...

ok so now let's go to "on holiday!" - hmm links to a few stories / Y&Y articles about a very limited number of venues. What's the differnece between "dinghy cruising and yacht cruising"  - surely the 'lear in the sun' bit should be rewritten a little and that be the 'landing page' for the 'on holiday" link. I also think it should be quicker/easier to get to the names of the operators - e.g. people might have been with Mark Warner skiing and want to use them for sailing too. Oh and when you go to the operators page it's out of date as crystal active beach has been closed and clients pushed to sunail instead.

In terms of the holiday locations, then why not do a country type pick and then get a list of venues for that country - currently it looks like you can only go holiday sailing in Egypt, greece, turkey, balearics but there's got to be more places than that.

Beginner boats doesn't seem to have any boats suitable for adults either.  Why the 2.4m is in there, I have no idea - it's not exactly beginner - where does the instrructor go. Where the RS/Laser tupperwares so beloved by schools?

I think it's good but more work should be done to make it that much better / usable



Edited by laser4000

also when did 49er ever become a singlehanded boat?
also i didnt know that 29er was either but i guess im slow with this boatin lark
will have to read the webste to catch up
:)