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    Posted: 23 Dec 12 at 11:12pm
Originally posted by Jack Sparrow

It's boring, slow, expensive, hard work, stuffy, elitist, time consuming, over burdened with rules, confusing and riddled with personality disordered individuals, whats there not to like?!


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We may be derided here as "wood bothers" but the cvrda events are the closest I know to this sportive ethos. It's about getting out and sailing the old boats and although racing is the main thing since we're about racing dinghies, there's always the encouragement and welcome for those who aren't racing seriously. All those old boats that are oddballs at clubs have a welcome too - the "Lost classes".

The Saturday race of the Nationals is more of a fun race - in the past we've had "trasure hunts" or round the lake (whichever direction you like) races plus a sail past for photo opportunities. That sort of thing could work for clubs too.

I'd like to see more classes encouraging members to join in with the older, cheaper boats that aren't competitive in the main fleet. When we started sailing together at the club we both had old Larks and went and joined in a Lark class training event which was a huge encouragement and taught us loads. We then went on to get a more modern competitive Lark and sail opens and support the class. Everyone has to start somewhere and classes could capitalise on that. You don't have to spend a fortune to start sailing.


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and where are the cvrda Nationals this year?  My own club Hunts SC!  The club is really looking forward to hosting the event simply because of its friendly 'fun first' nature, and a large percentage of the turnout will be from home boats.  There will be lots of youngsters tarting themselves as crews around the boats which are always hugely admired, and a real family feel to the weekend.

The other thing we do a lot of at Hunts is coached racing, for both youngsters and adults.  Largely done on a Saturday morning this has proved really successful in helping people take the next step into club racing on Sundays, and some seasoned racers even use it for their own training (imagine that, club racers training!)  Our next event is asymetric race training on New Year's Eve, with ten boats booked in and three caoches afloat - not bad for our little place!


Edited by winging it - 24 Dec 12 at 9:03am
the same, but different...

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