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    Posted: 09 Oct 08 at 1:04pm

Just a quick reminder that it is the Grafham Cat Open on 18 & 19 October. It is open to all sorts of Catamarans and the races will be sailed in the following Groups/Starts:

Course A
Fast Singlehanded Handicap (including F16, Shadow, A Class, etc)
Formula 18
Fast Handicap (including Hurricanes).
Spitfire

Course B
Dart 18 Inland Championships
Sprint 15 Inland Championships
Medium Handicap (including the Shearwaters and Hobie 16s this year)

The briefing is at 11am on Saturday and the first race is at 1200. No pre-entry is needed*. Just turn up and enter on the day. We hope to get some wind this year!

There will be 3 races on each of the Saturday and Sunday but the Sprint 15s will just do 2 races on the Sunday so that they will get an earlier and quicker prizegiving so the travellers can get away.

On the Saturday evening there will be a meal at 7pm in the upstairs bar after which we will be showing sailing videos on a big screen. 

We hope to see you there

Regards

Bob Carter

* but if you plan to camp you must book your camping spot. This is especially true for motor homes as we have a very limited number of spaces allowed.

 

For full details see the Notice of Race on the Grafham Website

 

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Just found out that the Club Bar will be open from 18:00 on Friday.

 

Closing when it's no longer busy, but I am not sure what the definition of "busy" is.

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no longer busy at minnis is about 5.00am
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Originally posted by oz man

no longer busy at minnis is about 5.00am

I think Pat (The barman) will want to go to bed before that!!!!!!

See you there Oz; Will you be there Friday?

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The menu for the upstairs meal on Saturday night at 7pm, is:
Steak pie, chips and veg or Fish, Chips and peas plus puds (various)
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P.S.

There will also be a Veggie option

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well done to graftham for another wicked open. i know they had problems with results but think they got them sorted in the end it cant be easy when there are so many boats doing laps so quickly. we were the first start of each race and found ourselves finishing our first lap just after the last fleet had started so it would have been quite busy on the comitee boat.
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A Great event held with good spirit between all the classes, well done the cat community the end of season bash as usual lived up to all expectations.

Its especially nice to see the 5.9s havent lost their sense of humour either see Quote from the Y and Y Report below Nice one !!! -

"The talk in the pub that evening was that of the top 3 Hurricane’s beating the F18’s over the water in Race 3, even though they had a 3 minute head start"

Also thanks Webby im sure the batten tensions helps the set of the Tiger main when its inverted !!!!!!

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Chaps,

I'm considering modifying the SI's for next yeat to move the line 50-100m UP the course to reduce the chaos at the leeward gate.  50m when light wind, 100m when howling. 

I know this will slightly cut down the options for the beginning of the beat, but I think we need the space down there!

 

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