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chrishampe 
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 Topic: Worst Falmouth Week Ever!Posted: 12 Aug 07 at 9:32pm |
OK, so there has only been one day so far, But this looks set to be the worst Falmouth week ever. The race program has been chopped to one race a day with all but one day being "bay" courses These tend to be big triangles with 3 mile legs. Todays race was around 27 miles and was a painfull 4 hours and we have one of the faster boats! This used to be a good regatta, I last sailed here two years ago when there were days with 2 windward leewards and trapeizoid courses. We do this regatta in non-cork week years and will now look to go elsewhere in 2009. The current chain of thought is to head for Weymouth or Poole anyone know anything about these regattas? ps Evan the Royal Cornwall Yacht Club was shut tonight when we went to see the results. |
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Posted: 15 Aug 07 at 3:01pm |
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Poor Show by the RCYC .... hopefully they will will buckup their ideas. ...did Falmouth a few years ago- had a great event, though some of the courses weren't the best. Chris - were the RCYC hosting the day's race ? -if I remember, each day there's a different host. so results will be posted in a different club
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chrishampe
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Posted: 15 Aug 07 at 5:42pm |
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Yes, the race on the first day was hoasted by Helford River, But there were no results that day or when we went to Mylor on Monday. After another couple of days the courses have still been rubish and we have spent more time drinking with crews that retired from the Fastnet then are rivals in the regatta.
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Posted: 16 Aug 07 at 10:43am |
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Oh, doesn't sound much like our experience - but we did have fabuous weather and a lot of alcohol (!), so race-management may have had an easier time.
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Posted: 16 Aug 07 at 10:51am |
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... hope they RCYC /whoever... improve things - it can be a great regatta with a good format - different clubs hosting/running racing etc. It made for a super week (for us), but we were a bit annoyed with of the course/race_managment one or two days. Takes the shine off a regatta - people take a lot of effort, time (holidays) and expense to get to regattas - organising crews, accommodation, boat, transport etc... ,....even if the social is great, when races are messed with sailors will get annoyed.
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chrishampe
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Posted: 16 Aug 07 at 7:16pm |
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Todays race had 9 legs for us, 7 of those was a fetch with a kite run for the other two. This has been nothing like the weeks I remember from 4 years ago when we had proper windward leewads.
I guess we will have to wait for Torbay regatta; which has been the best run regatta I have competed in recent years. Also from what I have heard the social aspect will be improved with the return of the "wet" bar. |
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peterknight3
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Posted: 18 Aug 07 at 4:32pm |
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At the final prize giving, there was a promise from the race officer of 4 days of windward/lewards and only 2 days of regatta courses next year, so it should be alot better. To be fair, I think Falmouth Week had a good PRO who was hampered by pre-written set courses in the sailing instructions. By Friday he had posted an ammendment and set good windward leward courses. Four days like friday and 2 of longer costal/bay courses should be good next year, shame the format didn't change earlier this week. Socials were all at the club hosting the day's regatta, |
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tgruitt
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Posted: 19 Aug 07 at 5:37pm |
You have to love a whole lap which only takes 1 tack (at the leward mark) then fetch to the windward mark and 1 gybe (non kite) to get around the wing. The social in the evening was awful, no one was at the RCYC like normal, only boat crew I saw about town was the Just Magic bunch. How many fetches can you do in a week of racing???? |
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chrishampe
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Posted: 19 Aug 07 at 10:49pm |
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We did see some of the guys from Swansea who were on an X332. Glad I didn't have to do that delivery trip home! In fact they were almost as bad as that Zulu Dawn lot!
 Going home after racing on Friday was are best strategic move all week! It was a near perfect trip, wind on the quarter, plenty of waves to surf and even some tail enders from the Fastnet race to overtake! From what I can see for the champagne race was just one IRC class with a handful of boats. |
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Tim Coventry
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Posted: 23 Aug 07 at 12:46pm |
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Hi, I am the Rear Commodore Sailing RCYC - Just for the record - Falmouth week racing is organised by PoFSA, effectively the combined Falmouth clubs. The race mangement for the week is under the direction of PoFSA. Socal events each day are hosted at different individual PoFSA clubs with the addition of a big week long shoreside entertainment programme in the Town at two locations. Details of all this is in the programme given to all competitors and on the website. RCYC host two social events in the week and for both the club was fully open with teas, bar and a big welcome to all. On the Sunday it was Helford Club as the social host and centre. There was a great barbeque, steel band, real ale bar and a huge welcome with arrangements to tie up and get ashore, Sadly, most yachts decided to finish the race and go home. The racing in the Bay is a work progress with a new team headed by IRO Mike Pearson. I was an ARO. Both Mike and I agree that racing on some days on the courses that PoFSA gave us was not good. We should have anticipated this and reacted sooner. We attempted to improvise improvements during the week as the apportunity arose. The Bay race team has already determined a range of courses and other improvements for next year that will solve these problems. Stick with us,Falmouth is a fantastic venue, we all want the week to improve and grow, it will be great in 08 and the West Country tradition of a welcome to all is top of the agenda.
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