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Woodburner ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() ![]() Joined: 13 Mar 15 Location: Folkestone Kent Online Status: Offline Posts: 332 |
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What's happening here Are the french already doing something similar to what we're talking about?
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iiitick ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() Joined: 04 Jun 14 Location: gb Online Status: Offline Posts: 478 |
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Try analyzing why people sail. There may be people who wish to plod around with a picnic and people who wish to play with an old Laser in the surf but the core of sailors are sport sailors. They are the ones who stay with it and try to improve and win races. Look at those sailors, they all have a technical interest in boats, no one won a race with the sails on upside down? We can have barbecues or play pirates but the backbone of the sport is those guys who just want to be out there racing.
We have almost no juniors but on Sunday there were 22 boats out in a crap wind on a sunny but cold day. The age range was from 25 to 76, all racing hard and all experienced sailors. Another local club has loads of kids out on a Friday night splashing round in Toppers but few racing on a Sunday. I sail much less these days but I am constantly involved in sailing, mending, improving and helping. I am an enthusiast. Most of our members are enthusiasts. We could die the water pink or build a fun fair on the dinghy park, that should pack the buggers in but it is the genuine racing enthusiasts who are the future of the sport.
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Null ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 11 May 14 Online Status: Offline Posts: 745 |
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Graeme, some great commentary behind the French PY process on the Zero facebook page
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JimC ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 17 May 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 6662 |
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I think one only needs to look at what happened with Fastsail and TASA, which were exactly what was suggested, bands of similar classes. They lasted a few years and died out when the initial wave of enthusiasm went. Logically you'd think it ought to work, but clearly it didn't. Edited by JimC - 25 Mar 15 at 11:16am |
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Woodburner ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() ![]() Joined: 13 Mar 15 Location: Folkestone Kent Online Status: Offline Posts: 332 |
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Well I hate to admit the French do anything better than us, but that is certainly to use their term, philosophically a better way to proceed than moving things around just based on dodgy data as our lot do at the moment. I've been studying their list and they have some very different ratings to us, I'm going to guess presumably because they have more sea based contributions than our puddle data or die attitude. I also like it that someone is prepared to look at existing boats as a sample, they've got the EPS Blaze X thing about right, I like what they've done with their groupings, interesting they've actually done what I was proposing, it certainly shows more logic than our mess.
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Old Timer ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() Joined: 05 Jun 13 Online Status: Offline Posts: 370 |
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I think the concept was good but ultimately the racing was no more satisfactory than a PY race ... Similar craft are similar ... not the same so you have the same issues as any PY race. I think it's class racing OR a compromise (of which there can be many flavours)
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turnturtle ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 05 Dec 14 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2538 |
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But they were still travelling events - if you are going to the hassle to travel for sailing then you might as well save it for the class events- even if only a handful show twice a year. also TASA was still PY racing AIUI.... And I'd guess so was FastSail. My own take on category racing is that it's another compromise, but one that might work well In a local sailing club scenario- not to replace class racing, or PY racing events like the SJ series. Edited by turnturtle - 25 Mar 15 at 1:49pm |
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jeffers ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 29 Mar 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 3048 |
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As someone who took part in Fastsail the first event was great, a real buzz about it. Then the 2 people who had worked so hard to get it up and running took a step back (shortly before the second event at Rutland) and various class politics started to take over.
The following events were never the same and the organisation faded to obscurity before quietly passing on.
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Old Timer ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() Joined: 05 Jun 13 Online Status: Offline Posts: 370 |
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Well ... as is often the case an event is typically a reflection of the enthusiasm and vision of the organising team rather than the specifics of the actual event ... When they move on the event typically fades ... It is people that make clubs, events and classes not fancy sails or rigs ... the equipment is secondary to the people ...
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Do Different ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 26 Jan 12 Location: North Online Status: Offline Posts: 1312 |
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Spot on Ol' Timer.
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