Bloody Mary Sailjuice

I've equally seen a heavy weather forecast and someone turn up with a 420 only for the wind to drop just enough so it didn't pay for them.  The best event double stacker i saw was a 49er and 29er with the owners picking the appropriate boat for the wind strength.  If you have the money then fair enough.

I don't really see an issue, we're all there to enjoy ourselves if the choice is between feeling miserable being massively over/under powered and struggling or just having a good days sailing then why would you choose to have a rubbish day on the water?  Equally it doesn't impact on PY (due to the nature of a pursuit race) and doesn't count towards qualification for the series then theres no issue with it.

OK, my mind has been changed by you all - if I ever go again I'll take a Lightning for the calm and a Topper for when it blows. Actually, I should have done this the only time I did go - I got totally blown away by the huge, black cloud squall which came through.

Anyone else find it strangely ironic that from a group that normally espouses the 'fairness' of class racing we get a totally different attitude to cheating a handicap series by using multiple craft to suit the conditions. Probably exactly the same type that would vehemently vote against any changes to their particular class that might suit a particular body group in a particular type of conditions.

It's madness of course, quite a complex form of it I'd guess, not sure what the group diagnosis would be something in between Schizophrenia and Split personality disorder I should think.

Edited by iGRF - 12 Jan 15 at 6:19pm

Originally posted by iGRF Anyone else find it strangely ironic that from a group that normally espouses the 'fairness' of class racing we get a totally different attitude to cheating a handicap series by using multiple craft to suit the conditions. Probably exactly the same type that would vehemently vote against any changes to their particular class that might suit a particular body group in a particular type of conditions. It's madness of course, quite a complex form of it I'd guess, not sure what the group diagnosis would be something in between Schizophrenia and Split personality disorder I should think.

Entries (afaik) for the SailJuice series are by boat, not sailor so for example my boy has done Datchet in the D-One, Oxford in the Finn and the BM in a Laser, but these results will not be combined for the series,

It's clear that some of you need to learn to read!

As jimbo says, the boat is entered into the series not the helm, and it's 4 out of 8 to count.

As for PY that's been clarified to. Pursuit races are not used in PYS so will not affect py for a given class.

Edited by craiggo - 12 Jan 15 at 8:23pm