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Do Different 
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 Topic: 2020 Dinghy ShowPosted: 01 Mar 20 at 2:04pm |
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Not that I matter but we'll not be going there.
Could do London in a day by rail at a pinch or we have made a weekend of it to include a London exhibition V&A, Science Museum,................ An anonymous warehouse on an airfield, I think not. Agree with David.
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ian.r.mcdonald
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Posted: 01 Mar 20 at 1:42pm |
It's perfect! Reduced travelling from our offices for the RYA. Oh! You mean for visitors, well............. |
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davidyacht
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Posted: 01 Mar 20 at 1:41pm |
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Whilst marginally better for me in a car ... this will be sending out all the wrong messages for the sport ... bad for anyone North of Watford, poor public transport links, bad carbon footprint ... but quite handy for the RYA wallahs. Makes the show very regional, which will make it less relevant to the class associations, and less attractive to the industry. I think this will be the death knell for the dinghy show, in much the same way that Docklands killed the Boat Show. Is the M3 access part of a scheme to make it into a keelboat show?
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Do Different
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Posted: 01 Mar 20 at 1:13pm |
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London may not be central but at least it is a rail hub.
Farnborough? |
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KazRob
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Posted: 01 Mar 20 at 12:48pm |
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I see the show is moving to Farnborough next year. That is literally a move in the wrong direction for large parts of the population.
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patj
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Posted: 01 Mar 20 at 8:34am |
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Well I thought it was very much as usual. Nothing exciting. Lots of plastic things diluting the classes yet more and making newbies think you have to spend a fortune to go sailing. The absence of a lot of class associations was noticeable - money is better spent elsewhere. Dougal's interesting history of sailing and Mike Mac's rig talk were enjoyable - Mike changed it this year by breaking the RS200 mid talk! Bought new kit at decent prices after trying on several pairs of boots at different suppliers stalls (can't do that online). Best part was catching up with several friends we haven't seen since last summer's events.
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polc1410
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Posted: 28 Feb 20 at 9:51pm |
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I'm still going.
There is ONE case of UK contracted virus. The others are irrelevant. The train journey there will be a bigger risk of infection than the show. It's more dangerous than flu, but currently the numbers don't suggest you are more likely to get it than flu. So either get on with stuff or get in the bunker till August. |
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tink
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Posted: 28 Feb 20 at 8:38pm |
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Plan A Saturday mark boat at optimist open, Sunday sailing my, new to me, boat. However based on the ever changing forecast like last year maybe a last minute visit.
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Tink
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zeon
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Posted: 28 Feb 20 at 5:26pm |
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Elaine and I will be there tomorrow. Sad as always that our class gave up on the show a few years ago , to me if you don’t make the effort to go it means your class is on the way to extinction. But mine is the minority view in this matter. The committee view was the money saved would be used on other forms of publicity, never seen any sign of any though.
So we will start with a visit to the lightning stand (to see old friends), then the comet one ( my wife has one as her second boat)then wander about in a haphazardly fashion trying to see as much as we can .
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H2
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Posted: 28 Feb 20 at 4:05pm |
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I will be there and helping out on the class stand on Saturday morning. Frankly I think the media around zombie virus is total pants - 10,000 people die of flu in the UK in a bad year and this is just another kind of flu. Off to Pakistan on Sunday, believe me.....I have a much higher chance of meeting something nasty as a result of that :-)
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