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john.d.knight ![]() Groupie ![]() ![]() Joined: 09 Jul 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 42 |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posted: 11 Apr 05 at 10:25am |
At a topper open my son recently took part in there was a bit of a mess up by the race committee. They put up a numer on the course board the wrong way round. So instead of going round to startboard, the obvious way, the course board instructed the toppers to loop round on port. Needless to say most of the fleet went the wong way and then were not finished at the end. I know that this was technically the correct thing to do but this was a junior open meeting, some of the children were in tears when they came off the water. I see this a very hard lesson to learn from a race officers error. There were several things that irritated me about the race organisation given that it was an open meeting for juniors.
Again, I know technically the race officer was right, but this was a junior event and I do think that some clubs do need to make some allowances for the inexperience of the children. Unfortunately this spoiled what was a good and up until that point, well organised event And I have now joined the long line of Annoyed sailing parents and am now starting to realise what my parents went through. |
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