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Y&Y magazine made heroes of some very good sailors, as a nipper I looked up to the likes of Spud Rowsell and Alec Stone, both reported on and profiled in Y&Y, this inspired many of us to engage with the sport of dinghy racing.  Fortunately our sport allowed us to turn up on a start line to compete with our heroes, and occasionally, probably due to lucky shifts, one got to cross them on a tack now and again, this was all part of the package that encouraged me to engage with the sport for the next 50 years.  So yes, happily living in the past, of which Y&Y was an important part.

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Originally posted by fab100

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You seemed to have missed the point that David’s footer is “happily living in the past”

Seems more like miserably trying to drag everyone else back there?. If you want to live in the past, you're gone , the world has moved on.

I am told that a forum is meant to replicate bar chat, and it is fair to say most chat involves staring into the bottom of a pint glass discussing how things were better back in the day.

I challenge you to list the positives that are leading to a growth in dinghy racing right now?

To offer a positive, last weekend I raced in a club race with sixteen other one design boats, the fleet including several former national and world champions, as high quality club racing as I have experienced.  Sadly the boat was designed seventy years ago, and the average age of the helms was 65+  LOL … we had a great time though … hence the strap line
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Originally posted by davidyacht

Originally posted by RS400atC

Originally posted by fab100

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You seemed to have missed the point that David’s footer is “happily living in the past”

Seems more like miserably trying to drag everyone else back there?. If you want to live in the past, you're gone , the world has moved on.

I am told that a forum is meant to replicate bar chat, and it is fair to say most chat involves staring into the bottom of a pint glass discussing how things were better back in the day.

I challenge you to list the positives that are leading to a growth in dinghy racing right now?

To offer a positive, last weekend I raced in a club race with sixteen other one design boats, the fleet including several former national and world champions, as high quality club racing as I have experienced.  Sadly the boat was designed seventy years ago, and the average age of the helms was 65+  LOL … we had a great time though … hence the strap line

Is this where we start quoting the four Yorkshiremen sketch? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE
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Originally posted by davidyacht

Y&Y magazine made heroes of some very good sailors, as a nipper I looked up to the likes of Spud Rowsell and Alec Stone, both reported on and profiled in Y&Y, this inspired many of us to engage with the sport of dinghy racing.  Fortunately our sport allowed us to turn up on a start line to compete with our heroes, and occasionally, probably due to lucky shifts, one got to cross them on a tack now and again, this was all part of the package that encouraged me to engage with the sport for the next 50 years.  So yes, happily living in the past, of which Y&Y was an important part.

For me this is one of the attractions of the Sailjuice Winter Series (aka Great Lakes), lining up on the start line and having an Olympian on one side and a multiple world champion on the other still makes me giggle!
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Originally posted by davidyacht

Originally posted by RS400atC

Originally posted by fab100

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You seemed to have missed the point that David’s footer is “happily living in the past”

Seems more like miserably trying to drag everyone else back there?. If you want to live in the past, you're gone , the world has moved on.

I am told that a forum is meant to replicate bar chat, and it is fair to say most chat involves staring into the bottom of a pint glass discussing how things were better back in the day.

I challenge you to list the positives that are leading to a growth in dinghy racing right now?

To offer a positive, last weekend I raced in a club race with sixteen other one design boats, the fleet including several former national and world champions, as high quality club racing as I have experienced.  Sadly the boat was designed seventy years ago, and the average age of the helms was 65+  LOL … we had a great time though … hence the strap line

Am working on my eventual move into the neighbourhood so that I can help reduce the average age David, although not by much! Might even have to buy a solo one day just to come play with you guys from across the estuary
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Originally posted by H2

Originally posted by davidyacht

Originally posted by RS400atC

Originally posted by fab100

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You seemed to have missed the point that David’s footer is “happily living in the past”

Seems more like miserably trying to drag everyone else back there?. If you want to live in the past, you're gone , the world has moved on.

I am told that a forum is meant to replicate bar chat, and it is fair to say most chat involves staring into the bottom of a pint glass discussing how things were better back in the day.

I challenge you to list the positives that are leading to a growth in dinghy racing right now?

To offer a positive, last weekend I raced in a club race with sixteen other one design boats, the fleet including several former national and world champions, as high quality club racing as I have experienced.  Sadly the boat was designed seventy years ago, and the average age of the helms was 65+  LOL … we had a great time though … hence the strap line

Am working on my eventual move into the neighbourhood so that I can help reduce the average age David, although not by much! Might even have to buy a solo one day just to come play with you guys from across the estuary

Not more competition  Cry
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Originally posted by davidyacht

I think even iGRFs worst trolling was nothing compared with the venomous posts that you see on some social media pages

or even Sailing Anarchy at its height of having to moderate users calling each other paedophiles ... that apparently, was over the line.

Anyway, the forum is nostaligic in its own right, and the only other comment I can make is, H2, buy a Solo if there's an option for class racing, they're lovely boats imho, but keep the H2 too.... the way prices are going, most dinghies purchased >3 years ago will be an investment right now.
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Originally posted by turnturtle

Originally posted by davidyacht

I think even iGRFs worst trolling was nothing compared with the venomous posts that you see on some social media pages

or even Sailing Anarchy at its height of having to moderate users calling each other paedophiles ... that apparently, was over the line.

Anyway, the forum is nostaligic in its own right, and the only other comment I can make is, H2, buy a Solo if there's an option for class racing, they're lovely boats imho, but keep the H2 too.... the way prices are going, most dinghies purchased >3 years ago will be an investment right now.

Thanks TT - I guess a solo happens to all of us given time, as I turn 50 this year I must be closer to ownership than I have ever been :-) but actually you are right, it would be fun to sail in the Salcombe solo fleet or perhaps the Yawl fleet but I will be keeping my H2 as well. Its too fun to sail and besides, everyone knows me by the colour of my boat!
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This forum looks and feels like a 70s throwback, which is a pity because there are ways to update, without much cost. Its interesting that folk here have made reference to the "Clubs and Classes" section from years gone by. That was one of my favourites.  Sailors are not coming to Y&Y, so Y&Y should go to the sailors. Why not embrace modern technology and turn up at a different club each week/fortnight, armed with a bunch of Go Pros and some video editing software? An amusing and informative (sounding a bit Cholmodely-Warner here!) video can be stitched together, showcasing the club, the water, the characters, the boats and the race(s). This will give the reconnection to the grass roots which was part of the Y&Y bedrock back in the day. Imagine the diverse settings and classes - one week the club is a Midland gravel pit, the next week is on the Norfolk Broads, then a South Coast mega club. then a Scottish estuary. This is the digital age - embrace it. I just said "back in the day", think I got away with it.
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