Who's going and when?

The show is always heralded as the start of the season which has always perplexed me, I have recently moved from a club up North where the season starts actually clashes every year with the show. I am now at an all year club so less of an issue. I would think a show the week before half term would have more appeal. People are less likely to be torn between sail or show they are still in pre season preparations so the commercial stands would benefit. Obviously and especially considering last year weather would be a factor.

Originally posted by Ardea Main issue for me (although I no-longer have any stake in it) would be the maintenance aspect of carbon spars on a streaker.  An FRP streaker is a fantastic package for very low-maintenance sailing (also lovely boats to sail).  Introducing carbon spars just for the sake of it would ruin this, and introducing them to actively look for performance gains opens another can of worms.

Edited by jeffers - 01 Mar 19 at 5:58pm

Originally posted by Ardea Main issue for me (although I no-longer have any stake in it) would be the maintenance aspect of carbon spars on a streaker.  An FRP streaker is a fantastic package for very low-maintenance sailing (also lovely boats to sail).  Introducing carbon spars just for the sake of it would ruin this, and introducing them to actively look for performance gains opens another can of worms.

Originally posted by tink The forecast says not going

Originally posted by tink Originally posted by iGRF Originally posted by tink I hope the Streaker doesn’t have a Carbon rig. The PY bandit moaners will have a field day with that. I remember one issue the bandit  moaners have is that the old wooden ones artificial push up the PY making the plastic boats bandits. Adding a carbon rig will only worsen this separation. The appeal of the streaker is that it hasn’t gone down the carbon route.  I've seen the carbon boom.. The Carbon boom winds me up also ‘it won’t make any difference’ they say, ‘just make the class seam more modern’ it will make a difference during heavy weather Gybes. Not dropping the rig is a big competitive advantage, not to mention the only time over weight me and old woodie have a chance against lightweights in their plastic fantastics.