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It was a lovely location for the Contender Nats in 2005, though. And I know what your hubby looks like, vscott! We've met him that week!

 

 

Originally posted by feva_sailor We get 5-6 45 mins races out here. But with warm water 18kts of wind and long downwind legs we dont mind.

Well this might be fine for people who's only real interest is sailing but some people do other sports in equal measures to sailing and have a hard job fitting it all in.  And from my point of view, sailing should take up no more than 3 hours of my day and for this to happen races should be no longer than 1 hour, and that's one race.

When we were there, there was no tractor. The first bit of the ramp is steep but the last bit into the compound is very steep. Enjoy!!

Great place to sail with a nice sheltered sandy beach. Can be very deceptive as it is very sheltered down on the beach.

Great friendly club that serves good pasties and excellent beer. What else do you want?

Yep a tractor would be needed for my Osprey - probably the heaviest one in the fleet. I've had two trolley tyres explode under the load so far this year with the boat just sitting on the slip (and one of those was brand new!).

Whenever I have been RO I try and have the leaders finishing shortly after 45 min so that everyone is finished around the hour.  The fleet will have usually sorted itself out by then aswell.

When I'm racing I do expect a race to last about an hour and prefer to do lots of races rather than 1 long one a day.  At my present club we have had a few long races but thats mainly because of the wind dying off so that we can barely get over the tide and us all being too stubborn to retire.  Do feel sorry for the RO when that happens. 

One thing that no one has mentioned is that most RO's are volunteers and if they get too much criticism they just won't show up next time.  We should all be grateful they showed up and give criticism in a polite manner so that they learn rather than get p'd off.