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To make the PROs job easier, the finish line should be outside the course [ we quite often do a little reach to the finish] this puts the responsibilty on the sailors to do the right number of laps then go to the finish.

 Its amazing how difficult it is to count to five over a period of an hour isn't it. Anyone got any tips on doing that. during one of the 'gaps' in racing at the weekend, we thought of putting a counter on the spinny halyard so that you can see how many hoists you have done!

Good weekend though, it would be a shame to dilute it. nice to see all the As.

So what do you do with the 100 odd boats that want to club race at their club on Sunday?

markp , much safer on the back of a transporter , feet up and tinny in hand !

sorry couldn't persuade you an sailwave to drink more on saturday , i hear thats why the blade tanned you .

as for dandgerous driving , should have seen me n twitchy driving up the river A1M fuelled on red bull after a weekends hard work .never mind twichy the navigator  hitting the sports button of the hired pimp mobile when over taking on corners .

my only concern on water racing was on the sunday when the two courses overlapped, would have been mighty interesting if the wind had appeared on sunday as forecast , as for sats near misses , you always get interesting near misses and some not so misses when lots of cats race around a course on a windy day , monos too ! , even in single class fleets , with widely differing course depending on whose in a gust , boats flying in on port laylines at leeward marks with water established over parked stbd boats etc

results service was shocking for a prestige event , but they did work on improving for the sunday .

great weekend all the same shame it was sooo short .

ps Oz man (respect ) Eyes a dwarf next to you albeit  i'm 6 foot 2  , though I think I know the class you are hintin at , liked the village idiot one of past better , but in same league

Think a lot of probs are due to lack of protests , but lifes too short for them.

answer ?

100 boats club racing ??? where was that ??

Any other club running a major event of even half this magnitude cancels club racing thus allowing a safer and better run event to better promote their club, also with 200 boats paying over 20 squids a go means your club improves it's financial position who wouldn't give up one days sailing to do this especially when your club is about to be hammered financially to provide disabled access in our new politically correct and sensitive era.(I don't know how much wheelchair access will cost but four grand aint a bad start.)

Personally I enjoyed the event (not for the first time and will return again next year) Grafham is running a huge event here-getting bigger every year-and obviously lessons in race and club management are being learned, I am sure there will be innovations next year to keep the majority sailing FAST, safe,FAST and happy and FAST.