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    Posted: 01 Nov 05 at 11:23pm
Originally posted by Stefan Lloyd

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Actually, we are collectively watching less TV than we used to,
especially the ABC1s the advertisers are interested in. More and more
channels, fewer and fewer viewers.



Where did you get this from? You work for Mori?
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Yes the 49ers were all equipped with identical onboard cameras and without doubt they were the only fleet worth watching from a non-sailing spectator point of view every day. Personally I enjoyed watching Ben Ainslie but you try explaining to someone his downwind technique and why you're so excited to watch him...they look at you as if you're from Mars!!
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Originally posted by Sam Knight

] another point is the onboard cameras. Surely, in a class like the 49er where they are obsesed with weight, right down to tapered ropes and rope trapezes 'wires', they aren't going to be happy strapping a camera to the mast?

Didnt the 49ers have camera on during the athens games, i remember watching a clip from on board the boat
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well i suppose...


I think that television is going to kill the sport if we're not careful. It
happened to windsurfing. As the boards got better and faster, and more
televised people watch it and think 'wow, thats really cool, but i could
never do that'. Showing the skiffs wiping out and jumping off waves is
fine, but do we risk turning it into an extreme sport like windsurfing,
where people are put off by the size and speed of these machines.


I refer to windsurfing because my dad used to very good at it (or so he
says!), and he says that you could get 150 boards plus at events. He went
to one at bala a couple of years ago an only ten others turned up. No one
goes windsurfing now because its to extreme. We have loads of beginner
boats, but if no one knows what they are what hope have we got?

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Interesting, my teenage nephew calls windsurfing an old man's sport, but
then he is into kite-surfing...
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well i suppose...

I think that television is going to kill the sport if we're not careful. It happened to windsurfing. As the boards got better and faster, and more televised people watch it and think 'wow, thats really cool, but i could never do that'. Showing the skiffs wiping out and jumping off waves is fine, but do we risk turning it into an extreme sport like windsurfing, where people are put off by the size and speed of these machines.

I refer to windsurfing because my dad used to very good at it (or so he says!), and he says that you could get 150 boards plus at events. He went to one at bala a couple of years ago an only ten others turned up. No one goes windsurfing now because its to extreme. We have loads of beginner boats, but if no one knows what they are what hope have we got?

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I wonder how they propose to make horse riding more attractive to young
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not exciting nor as attractive to yound sailors in the way that the skiff type dinghies are and they should be dropped.

Oh come on.

Tornado not exciting.  FFS; evey sailor I know (well just about) says "I wish I had the time/money for a Tornado, they look so much fun".  Get a grip.

What we need is a mixture.  Some crash and burn, some around the cans and some long distance (for the faster boats; say 49er on a short course, say 20 miles) and the Tornado's on a decent course of around 50 miles (ECPR length)). and then factore all this into the results.

Some of the volvo series where the Tornado's were racing close to shote with the leaward mark just on the surf line looked fantastic. 

We also need the sailing to be somewhere there is (almost) 100% guaranteed wind - I have a feeling China is going to be a disaster.
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As long as all the camera kit is identical and all boats carry it you won't be at a disadvantage...
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Originally posted by sam knight

another point is the onboard cameras. Surely, in a
class like the 49er where they are obsesed with weight, right down to
tapered ropes and rope trapezes 'wires', they aren't going to be happy
strapping a camera to the mast?


It works in Formula 1 - the cameras are tiny. I think that could be a good
idea.
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another point is the onboard cameras. Surely, in a class like the 49er where they are obsesed with weight, right down to tapered ropes and rope trapezes 'wires', they aren't going to be happy strapping a camera to the mast?

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