Midweek Racing.

Its took a long time coming but we now have a very good midweek racing at Carsington, We have had a Wednesday afternoon race this year then when the evening racing stopped they put on two races in the afternoon, the turnout was better than anyone could of hoped for.
We are trying to see if can get a morning then a pm race before it gets too cold now.
Next year as the D Zero has took off at Carsington with four new boats on order we should see an increase in the class racing aspect of the Wednesday series to add to the five solo that sometimes race on wednesday.
Could it be that the Wednesday racing could become the best day to go sailing, morning race then lunch, afternoon race than evening race with a very good turnout as usual ?



Edited by Wrighty - 24 Oct 16 at 12:19pm

Thats a great point about Friday. Carsington do a sail and sizzle night untill 8pm in the Summer on Friday so it only need a push to do a normal afternoon race now, they do a novice race anyway so we will see what happens,it could kill the Sunday race series is the only problem but might attact more members so win and loose?

Chris

Edited by Wrighty - 24 Oct 16 at 2:24pm

We got 16 on the last Wednesday but between 7 and 16, add school holidays in the summer the numbers go up, early retired, retired, shift workers, self employed, company owners, some can work on remote from home on broadband subject to servers on line, its a changing world now and Sunday is a working day now.
I would say university lectures as well now as half of my daughters lectures are cancelled for no reason, 9 grand for no teaching is a complete rip off.   

Thursdays from midday all year, going into evenings during summer, their are more during afternoon than evening.

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in my history (currently Tuesday if I wanted to race windrufers, Wed at two reachable clubs for dinghy racing and Thursday was the midweek raceway for my own WS club a few years ago. It makes sense not to race Monday or Friday but I agree that local clubs sailing all on the same evening makes no sense.