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I've looked... thanks, not interested anymore. Ringers and Industry workers are welcome to the titles... Fairly meaningless in the grand scheme of things when you're pushing up daisies.

I was simply sharing a different point of view that saw 300 compete another 100 join in recreationally, it seems to work and despite the same economic gloom (and a marginal forecast) continues to grow year on year.

I'm really not up for a row on the topic... as I said, take a step away, look over your shoulder and you'll also see what a peculiar little oddity dinghy racing has become.

An 86 year old (as we have at our club) pottering in his Mirror, and Olympians sailing 49ers and flying round the world to compete against the best sailors. Yet it is the same sport, and port gives way to startboard in both cases.

Originally posted by alstorer   Originally posted by rogue - At most dinghy class nationals they have a measurement tent, at the NWF they had a beer tent.   Most of them? Really?

Indeed the only "measurement tent" I ever saw was at the Tasar Nationals.....and it was a garage...........

It's difficult unless you have the hindsight of various organised 'sports' to make a judgement call on what's 'right' or 'wrong' but I think it is true to say things were a tad more lighthearted in the past, much the same way that Jimbo's new found enthusiasm for that recent windsurfing event, itself an attempt to regain what used to be the norm at regattas.

Rogue you're coming across as GRF the troll's apologist here and spouting all this "look how great windsurfing is why can't dighy sailing be like that" stuff ain't helping the comparison. 

I think I get it guys, you like wind surfing, congratulations! I like cycling, fishing, tennis and wind surfing as well as sailing too - we all got other interests (or many of us have). 

Isn't the real problem that neither of you ever got to the front of any class you've owned (and by the looks of it there's been many) and that frustrates the heck out of you and you want to have a lash out every now and then... why not just admit to yourselves that you're not the all conquering sailing gods you want to be because you don't put enough time in and you're not good enough? that works for me, I go sailing and racing because I like it and I have ....... FUN!

.....in a thread about who's the best national champ I like some of the posts above and I don't think it's x pages of tosh, except for all the trolling and off-on-a-tangent stuff that for some reason got spouted and then replied to.  I admire the time, effort and financial commitment some people will put in, like Andy Davis, and readily accept that I won't commit either that sort of time or money cos it doesn't suit me to do it, so I won't carp about their acheivments and bash on about how sailing should be more like xxxxxxxx sport instead and why life isn't fair and why it's raining not sunny .......


rant, rant, rant.... woke up too darn early today, stupid weather!