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    Posted: 10 Apr 23 at 3:54pm
There was a brief period of "Dinghy Sailing" you want to get picky, why are we administered by the Royal Yachting Assoc?

 
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Originally posted by Mark Aged 42

[---]This forum looks and feels like a 70s throwback,

Quite an achievement when you think about it, considering when the technology was actually invented!
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Totally understand your point . It’s something my club addressed a few years .
We used to be called Mid Warwickshire yacht club which as we are a small midlands reservoir club doesn’t  describe what we do or even where we are .
We are now called Leamington Spa Sailing Club. Which was decided sounded more inclusive and described what we do and where we are . Smile


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It may look and feel like a throwback but it also sounds like a throwback.

Yachts and Yachting.....sounds exclusive.
Sailing Today...... sounds more Inclusive.

Only a small point but one of many. How an organisation presents itself is so important particularly if it wants to have wider appeal. (Does the sport of sailing want wider appeal? Maybe not)

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A lovely Idea Mark but the issue is where the money would come from, Advertising for the dinghy sector must be slim pickings, Rooster, Insurance but after the that the ‘Home Page’ is Yacht focused. Probably why Dinghy Magazine folded ‘back in the day’. 

We are also a small be very diverse group with little synergy between: club Laser Sailor, Merlin Rocket sailor who does open meetings mainly and say an RS600. These people will go tho their tribe for information and report with little that actually unites us. 
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This forum looks and feels like a 70s throwback, which is a pity because there are ways to update, without much cost. Its interesting that folk here have made reference to the "Clubs and Classes" section from years gone by. That was one of my favourites.  Sailors are not coming to Y&Y, so Y&Y should go to the sailors. Why not embrace modern technology and turn up at a different club each week/fortnight, armed with a bunch of Go Pros and some video editing software? An amusing and informative (sounding a bit Cholmodely-Warner here!) video can be stitched together, showcasing the club, the water, the characters, the boats and the race(s). This will give the reconnection to the grass roots which was part of the Y&Y bedrock back in the day. Imagine the diverse settings and classes - one week the club is a Midland gravel pit, the next week is on the Norfolk Broads, then a South Coast mega club. then a Scottish estuary. This is the digital age - embrace it. I just said "back in the day", think I got away with it.
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So the forum crashed for a good 12 hours because someone questioned the definition of sailing 
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Originally posted by turnturtle

Originally posted by davidyacht

I think even iGRFs worst trolling was nothing compared with the venomous posts that you see on some social media pages

or even Sailing Anarchy at its height of having to moderate users calling each other paedophiles ... that apparently, was over the line.

Anyway, the forum is nostaligic in its own right, and the only other comment I can make is, H2, buy a Solo if there's an option for class racing, they're lovely boats imho, but keep the H2 too.... the way prices are going, most dinghies purchased >3 years ago will be an investment right now.

Thanks TT - I guess a solo happens to all of us given time, as I turn 50 this year I must be closer to ownership than I have ever been :-) but actually you are right, it would be fun to sail in the Salcombe solo fleet or perhaps the Yawl fleet but I will be keeping my H2 as well. Its too fun to sail and besides, everyone knows me by the colour of my boat!
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Originally posted by davidyacht

I think even iGRFs worst trolling was nothing compared with the venomous posts that you see on some social media pages

or even Sailing Anarchy at its height of having to moderate users calling each other paedophiles ... that apparently, was over the line.

Anyway, the forum is nostaligic in its own right, and the only other comment I can make is, H2, buy a Solo if there's an option for class racing, they're lovely boats imho, but keep the H2 too.... the way prices are going, most dinghies purchased >3 years ago will be an investment right now.
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Originally posted by davidyacht

Originally posted by RS400atC

Originally posted by fab100

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You seemed to have missed the point that David’s footer is “happily living in the past”

Seems more like miserably trying to drag everyone else back there?. If you want to live in the past, you're gone , the world has moved on.

I am told that a forum is meant to replicate bar chat, and it is fair to say most chat involves staring into the bottom of a pint glass discussing how things were better back in the day.

I challenge you to list the positives that are leading to a growth in dinghy racing right now?

To offer a positive, last weekend I raced in a club race with sixteen other one design boats, the fleet including several former national and world champions, as high quality club racing as I have experienced.  Sadly the boat was designed seventy years ago, and the average age of the helms was 65+  LOL … we had a great time though … hence the strap line

Am working on my eventual move into the neighbourhood so that I can help reduce the average age David, although not by much! Might even have to buy a solo one day just to come play with you guys from across the estuary

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