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    Posted: 16 Sep 14 at 7:28pm
It really does hark back to the days of the educated and the rest, doesn't it? These days you are far more likely to have a better degree and be a non "professional" than you are being a teacher, sadly. I agree I can't connect any of it, way back then or now, with honesty.All very odd. I think they would have done better to concentrate on the core race and said stuff the guinness lot.
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I don't envisage many small clubs going to those lengths. They'll do the racing and fund raise but since 25 boats on the water is very, very rare for them, they wouldn't count for the record anyway.
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Well I'm hearing about a lot of small clubs making sure they have the required 25!
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The biggest turnout we had this year was 22 but we have registered 27 for Barts...and still two club Lasers spare....anyone?
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Originally posted by sargesail

Well I'm hearing about a lot of small clubs making sure they have the required 25!


Yep, your dead right there, our small club now has 40 registered and you'd probably have to go back decades to find that many sailing on a Sunday, if ever...

 
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Originally posted by Steve411

Originally posted by Alistair426

Witnesses have gone from being 'independent' (not club members or related to anybody taking part) to 'independent and holding positions of authority (Doctors, Solicitors, Teachers, etc). Some clubs may have to sack their witnesses and start again

'Video of start and finish' is now 'start and finish with footage of every boat crossing the line'. This will mean a static video camera trained along the line for up to an hour if you've got cats and Oppies, like we have.

...and there are other slight 'adjustments' that we will have to make in light of the check list that came out a few days ago.

All of it is do-able but it might have been nice if all the 'must haves' had been laid out right at the beginning. 

Going to be a great day though! 

Not just this but it really bugs me that only professional types are deemed worthy. Same for having passport photos countersigned. There's an implicit suggestion that non-professionals are somehow less trustworthy.

Is it meant to be that? Perhaps the reason is that people working in certain professions are subject to the additional scrutiny of a professional body, over and above the normal laws that everyone else must follow.

I've worked for years in professional standards bodies that oversee certain professions and sectors. Professional regulators like that will often investigate allegations of false declarations etc that police ignore. In my work I've chucked people out of their professions, on to the front pages and into the unemployment queue for conduct that they would easily get away with if they were not professionals. It's certainly not all a blessing.

In addition, professionals are often easier to track down than people working in other jobs if need be; i.e. if someone wanted to check up whether Dr Throgmorton Wheelhouse MD actually exists and where he can be interviewed it's normally quite easy, whereas it's not so easy to find out whether Throgmorton Wheelhouse the woodturner is a real person or to get to talk to them.

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Throgmorton Wheelhouse - what a wonderful name. And imagine there being 2 of them, one a doctor, one a wood turner. And there was I thinking all male Aussies were called Bruce.
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This is not worth a new topic but.....I was at Goodwood for the Revival on Saturday, a wonderful jamboree of classic motor racing, where 30,000 people dress up in period clothing. One of the pictures that rolls up on the Y&Y homepage is of a gentleman trapezing an old Albacore? wearing one of those 'guaranteed to drown you' ribbed life vests. I was wondering, Rupert, if sailors at CRVDA events wear period clothing, eschew combi trailors in favour of the leaf sprung variety and eat white bread?
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Surely that's an I14, not an Albacore, although we all know that the Alb is way faster  Wink.

I used one of those ribbed BA's for years - never drownded me.
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Originally posted by Rupert

And there was I thinking all male Aussies were called Bruce.

Only the builders are called Bruce.  If they are sheep-shearers they're called Shane.  If they get too sun-tanned they all get skin cancer, or if they're really unlucky and really tanned, called 'Ab-o' before being shot.  

BTW- Not all Aussie dogs are called 'dingo', there are some called 'Bouncer' too.


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