Worst Falmouth Week Ever!

POFSA as the organising body for the regatta, have a duty to run a safe and professional race organisation out in the Bay for the competitors, whom have all paid good money out to race and should be expect to get it. There is plenty of clear water out there, so why do we have to dodge shipping whilst racing?

The less said about Sundays mind and bum numbingly boring race the better. Once again the results for that days racing were published very late that evening, but if you ask someone to do them you'd better make damn sure that she knows how to do it before the event! Thank you to the two ladies who eventually managed produced them on behalf of Helford.

To be fair to the Bay Race Officer I'm told that he didn't write the set courses for the week but they were just shocking, with absoloutely no imagination whatsoever. Still at least by Friday he ignored the printed instructions and gave everyone the racing they were clamouring for all week.

The race officer who started a race, where the 1st mark was laid just off to windward of the bow of a vessel raising it's anchor, fails to give instructions to the officials on a saftey boat in the vicinity of the said mark regarding the directions to the competitors and then intimates that it's all racers fault for not keeping clear! Not very professional .A ten minute postponment could have been considered prudent by some. And whoever subsequently let the protest committee pass the ruling that they came to, following an out of time(allegedly) request for redress, should be embarrassed to say the least. Where were the findings published? Not on the regatta notice board - allegedly!

Ashore, where was the focal venue for the sailors this year?

The regatta tent was kicked out of the Surfy Dude Pizza Plaza, because of the complaints from the neighbours who bought a property/business beside the event square or was it due to financial gain by Carrick D.C? It's not called the EVENT SQUARE for nothing. I hope that POFSA made loads of cash from that deal because if not they've failed to look after the interests of the sailors - young and old. Carrick certainly won't let the tent make a reapperance at the expense of their Pavillion venue where the price of drinks took the ****. Remind Carrick that it's Falmouth regatta week for sailors, visitors welcome, and not just the drunken lowlife.

Bring back the tent on the lawn by the Greenbank Hotel for the sailors. Have different styles of race courses to provide variety and be more flexible in where they are started out in the bay. Lay marks well clear of the shore and local conditions where the wind should be more predictable for all competitors.Lay proper marks that visibly stand out, not an old length of downpipe hiding in the swell and only seen when you fall over it!  Fax the results ashore immediately from the committee boats and pay someone to produce them in time for the prize giving.

Oh, and can someone do something about the weather!!!!!!!!!