Symmetric Grand Prix...

Echo Jeffers' point. The SGP is more of a festival championship than anything else.

The focus is to give people who would usually not want to attend national or ranking events a chance to turn up and compete, knowing that they will have solid competition right down the fleet.

At Datchet in 2003 there was a pair Dart 18 sailors who bought an old Fireball from the Datchet sin bin on the Wednesday evening; rigged it with the help of the F/ball fleet on the Saturday morning; and competed in their first ever monohull races during the afternoon.

I believe that they beat about 6 boats...!

Originally posted by rogerd Im going and I havent raced seriously EVER and my boat is ancient.

I second that emotion.  

However I would like to point out that Rogers's boat is fairly unusual, but very useful for extreme ironing, sunbathing and picnics afloat.  He has done a brilliant job on it.

Edited by Pierre

Anyway Roger I think your going to find you have plenty space on the start line, no one is going to want to get to close in case you start putting letter boxes in the side of there boat!

That's right Paul, the one and only sliding seat Hornet.  (Or "planker" as it is affectionately known......the boat that is, not Roger).

I have to correct you. I know of two other plankers. One is in a museum on the Isle of Wight but is not as old as mine and there is another one sailing somewhere in the south east but havent seen her yet.

 Paul dont come to see come to try. You can have a go at being a planker. Ask Offshore Tiger she tried it but it was very quiet.I dont think she wanted to try waves on the plank.