SailFest
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Topic: SailFest
Posted By: Brenda@SailRacer
Subject: SailFest
Date Posted: 29 Jul 13 at 9:39pm
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GJW Direct SailFest - WPNSA's Olympic Legacy Event £65 for a singlehander entry, £75 for a doublehander - 6 handicap races over 2 days followed by the pursuit on Monday. Details here: http://sailfest.sailracer.org/eventsites/default_s.asp?eventid=157188" rel="nofollow - http://sailfest.sailracer.org/eventsites/default_s.asp?eventid=157188 Coaching day, Friday 23rd August, to be led by Peter Aitken (former sail- and spar-maker, world champion sailor and hugely experienced coach) and supported by Raymarine, aiming to get the best out of the venue and their Micro Compass. All boats tracked with full video debrief in conjunction with the tracking data. £37 for the day per boat. Loads going on in addition to the racing: Sat afternoon: Will Mackaness Charity Duathlon - windsurfing and mountain bikes Sat evening: Hog Roast at WPNSA with DJ afterwards Sun afternoon: Interclub Watersports Challenge Sun evening: Meal at RYA Portland House Raymarine will also be sponsoring the Long Distance Race on Monday with a Micro Compass for first place and other prizes within the fleet And for the whole 4 days there will be sporting taster activities (proper lessons) at a fraction of the usual cost for the rest of the family, or friends who may want to join you for a day or more. Activities range from 90 minutes to 3 hours with a max charge of just £22. Windsurfing, paddlesports, rock-climbing, mountain-biking and sailing to choose from. (My 10 year old went from never-sailed to able to sail a windsurfer round by herself after two of these sessions at a previous event - fantastic value!) ... details here http://events.sailracer.org/eventsites/content.asp?id=23646&eventid=157188" rel="nofollow - http://events.sailracer.org/eventsites/content.asp?id=23646&eventid=157188 The dates are now set for the 2014 edition over the same bank holiday weekend - 23rd to 25th August 2014. ------------- www.sailracer.co.uk - www.sailracer.co.uk Online Sailing Results & Event Management |
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Posted By: i tick
Date Posted: 29 Jul 13 at 10:19pm
| The Byte Nationals are part of this, sounds a bit odd to me. Anyone know anything about it? |
Posted By: winging it
Date Posted: 30 Jul 13 at 8:27am
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It looks like there asre lots of add on activities as well as the sailing Tick. Looks good, but won't be a patch on the cVRDA National Rally, same weekend at Hunts!
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Posted By: Pierre
Date Posted: 30 Jul 13 at 8:29am
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Quite right Nessa. If you're not in a Byte, you should be at Hunts. |
Posted By: yellowwelly
Date Posted: 30 Jul 13 at 9:11am
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I'd rather go to the National Watersports Festival the following weekend at Hayling: http://nationalwatersportsfestival.com" rel="nofollow - http://nationalwatersportsfestival.com ------------- |
Posted By: Simon Lovesey
Date Posted: 30 Jul 13 at 9:21am
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Yes the Byte Nationals are part of SailFest, the Phantoms are also making it a bit of a bash and Fireballs a Golden Dolphin event - so a multi class event, with handicap starts for others. Lots of other activities for both those competing and other visitors, plus shoreside displays and workshops including Richard Woof on boat prep etc - free access to the Olympic sailing venue, something for everyone Look forward to seeing everyone over the August Bank Holiday - celebrate the Olympics http://sailfest.sailracer.org" rel="nofollow - http://sailfest.sailracer.org ------------- http://www.sailracer.org" rel="nofollow - www.sailracer.org Online Sailing Results, GPS Tracking & Event Management |
Posted By: i tick
Date Posted: 30 Jul 13 at 9:31am
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Thanks, so where do us poor people camp whilst enjoying all this jolly fun? |
Posted By: i tick
Date Posted: 30 Jul 13 at 9:39am
| I hope there are lots of flags and logos.......I do like flags and logos. Will there be hot dogs? I like them as well. As you can see I am getting into the party spirit. Whilst the 'boy' sails I shall walk about approaching girls and small men to convert them to the cause whilst wearing my Murray's Mum 'T' shirt. |
Posted By: Fraggle
Date Posted: 30 Jul 13 at 10:16am
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There are a couple of campsites just up the road from WPNSA so few options. Lasernut and me will be there and looks like should be fun event. ------------- |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 30 Jul 13 at 11:20am
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Posted By: Dave.B
Date Posted: 30 Jul 13 at 12:51pm
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I've booked in with the Farr 3.7
Should be a good opportunity to get some salt water on it - hoping for wind and waves
 Also desparately need some of that coaching, trapeze helming is a whole new trick, I seem to use a different technique to scramble thru tacks every time
Happy to let careful users have a ride, Let me know
------------- H2 148 H2 113 RS300 365 Farr 3.7 397 Build Blog http://davesfarr37project.weebly.com/ |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 30 Jul 13 at 1:26pm
Still working on being there Nessa. One step forward the new mast has arrived.
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Posted By: i tick
Date Posted: 30 Jul 13 at 3:46pm
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What does ftfy mean? |
Posted By: yellowwelly
Date Posted: 30 Jul 13 at 3:51pm
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filthy tart fell*ting you.... or so I heard. ------------- |
Posted By: alstorer
Date Posted: 30 Jul 13 at 4:12pm
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"fixed that for you" ------------- -_ Al |
Posted By: yellowwelly
Date Posted: 30 Jul 13 at 4:23pm
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yep, she said that afterwards.... allegedly. ------------- |
Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 01 Aug 13 at 10:02am
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The Yoof and I are taking the Alto to this - come say hello.
Looking forward to seeing Dave's Farr ------------- |
Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 17 Aug 13 at 7:11pm
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Yay! Three Altos going now (I hope we can keep up with the other 2!!) ------------- |
Posted By: Simon Lovesey
Date Posted: 18 Aug 13 at 7:31am
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In addition to the Altos we also have a good cross section of other classes entered : Byte Iso RS200 29er Laser 4000 420 470 Javelin Fireball Phantom SuperNova Finn Laser Radial Laser 4.7 Topper OK D-One IC Farr 3.7 RS300 Musto Skiff Entry will close on Wed, so if you intend to race please do not delay http://sailfest.sailracer.org" rel="nofollow - http://sailfest.sailracer.org In addition to the racing, there will also be lots of other activities, workshops, taster activities and demo sails including the new J/70 SportsBoat. Free access to WPNSA, the Olympic venue, so if you are in the area over the Bank Holiday weekend do pop over. Simon ------------- http://www.sailracer.org" rel="nofollow - www.sailracer.org Online Sailing Results, GPS Tracking & Event Management |
Posted By: winging it
Date Posted: 18 Aug 13 at 9:24am
well, I see the ToY and the Jollyboat chose to come to Hunts not Weymouth...
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Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 19 Aug 13 at 6:43pm
| Hunts for us too! |
Posted By: Little Monster
Date Posted: 19 Aug 13 at 7:08pm
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Really strong phantom fleet going to Weymouth. 4 of top 5 from last years nationals and 6 from top 10. Furballs have a strong fleet as well. ------------- Phantom "Little Monster" 1404 |
Posted By: Simon Lovesey
Date Posted: 20 Aug 13 at 10:43am
Yes great cross section of sailors competing at SailFest Last call for entries, closes tomorrow (WED) http://sailfest.sailracer.org" rel="nofollow - http://sailfest.sailracer.org ------------- http://www.sailracer.org" rel="nofollow - www.sailracer.org Online Sailing Results, GPS Tracking & Event Management |
Posted By: Phantom Titch
Date Posted: 20 Aug 13 at 10:48am
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Hoping to arrive late tomorrow night, can I drop the boat off?
Hoping to be in Top 10 at Sailfest, but that looks challenging too!
Titch x ------------- Titch ~:-)) |
Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 20 Aug 13 at 10:51am
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We're going down Thur to drop the boats off, but haven't signed up for Friday coaching.
Anyone that wants to take a closer look at the Alto will be be more than welcome - we're in s/n 115. ------------- |
Posted By: winging it
Date Posted: 20 Aug 13 at 11:13am
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You won't see one of these at Sail Fest! Though actually that might be a good thing, I doubt it would last longon the sea if it was wavy! Actually, you might not see it at Hunts if I don't get on and put the seat back together. I think it's great that there are such superb events going on for sailors of every kind of boat, new and old - it shows the real diversity of the sport. A boat for every budget so to speak., plus racers cut-throat and casual. Fantastic.  ------------- the same, but different... |
Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 20 Aug 13 at 12:35pm
Absolutely Nessa!  ------------- |
Posted By: yellowwelly
Date Posted: 22 Aug 13 at 2:47pm
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The forecast is looking pretty good for you guys ------------- |
Posted By: Roger
Date Posted: 22 Aug 13 at 8:52pm
| I'm going for the weekend, I'll be following everybody else around in my Solo, should just be a fun weekend of handicap racing on the salty stuff and be good to meet up with some old mates over a few beers. |
Posted By: Simon Lovesey
Date Posted: 23 Aug 13 at 9:49pm
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31 boats out training today at SailFest, with practice races and top builder Richard Woof running a boat prep workshop. Racing starts tomorrow 13:00, with over 90 boats entered Socials sold out but plenty of shoreside activities and chance to try boats like the new J/70. Richard Woof will be running a daily boat prep workshop at end of afternoon. Live GPS tracking and updates on the event website http://sailfest.sailracer.org/" rel="nofollow - http://sailfest.sailracer.org ------------- http://www.sailracer.org" rel="nofollow - www.sailracer.org Online Sailing Results, GPS Tracking & Event Management |
Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 24 Aug 13 at 10:28am
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Wooooo! Blowing old boots down here!
Going to be a lot of fun! :) ------------- |
Posted By: Simon Lovesey
Date Posted: 24 Aug 13 at 2:06pm
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Quite windy here in Weymouth http://sailfest.sailracer.org" rel="nofollow - http://sailfest.sailracer.org ------------- http://www.sailracer.org" rel="nofollow - www.sailracer.org Online Sailing Results, GPS Tracking & Event Management |
Posted By: Little Monster
Date Posted: 24 Aug 13 at 11:14pm
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And they wont let us go and play in the waves.... Even though we were supposed to be sailing on the "same water as for the Olympics".
They wont take us outof the harbour....... Not what we paid for ------------- Phantom "Little Monster" 1404 |
Posted By: Aching Knees
Date Posted: 24 Aug 13 at 11:22pm
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Yep. Not what we paid for. We came for waves amd to sail our event on the Olympic waters. I wont be coming back
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Posted By: GarethT
Date Posted: 24 Aug 13 at 11:51pm
| Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm sure we saw 470s racing on Portland Harbour when we were watching the RS:X medal races on the Nothe course. |
Posted By: Little Monster
Date Posted: 25 Aug 13 at 12:03am
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Fair enough but if we had a pole about what consituted "Olympic wsters" I think your pushing the advertising to suggest that you would ONLY be inside the harbour.
------------- Phantom "Little Monster" 1404 |
Posted By: Simon Lovesey
Date Posted: 25 Aug 13 at 6:50am
Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy your day. Day 1 of SailFest saw robust conditions, with winds gusting 20 kts. We had a large and varied fleet, from several World Champions through to newbies. Also a massive spread of classes Topper to top International 14. There were numerous capsizes, rescues and gear failures. It would have taken considerable time to get the fleet out and back to Weymouth Bay. This would have meant you would have been on the water for all day and probably into the evening; the objective of SailFest was to allow people to race and socialise across a wide range of classes. We had several broken boats who came in between races, fixed things and went back out for the next start - this would have been impossible if you were racing several miles away from WPNSA. Simon ------------- http://www.sailracer.org" rel="nofollow - www.sailracer.org Online Sailing Results, GPS Tracking & Event Management |
Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 25 Aug 13 at 8:36am
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Well we had an absolute blast! Race management was ace, conditions fantastic and good close racing in the spinnaker fleet.
I believe we're due to go round the bay on Monday? ------------- |
Posted By: Simon Lovesey
Date Posted: 25 Aug 13 at 2:47pm
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Big winds and robust conditions in the harbour for Day 2 of GJW SailFest - Race 6 and final one of the day just finished with around half the fleet retiring Fleet coming ashore for video debrief and boat prep workshop with Richard Woof, although judging by the amount of damaged gear arriving on the slipway could turn into a boat repair session. Tomorrow is the Raymarine Pursuit Race with three electronic compasses to be won, and lots of other prizes across the fleet. http://sailfest.sailracer.org ------------- http://www.sailracer.org" rel="nofollow - www.sailracer.org Online Sailing Results, GPS Tracking & Event Management |
Posted By: NickA
Date Posted: 25 Aug 13 at 9:01pm
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Yes great racing today. LOTS of wind and some very impressive Fireball and I14 sailing. Plenty of , very fast 2-sail reaching too which makes a great change from windward leeward. Sadly the results are still in total disarray - we had to tell THEM how many laps we had done when signing off, this despite all the boats being GPS tracked (not that we've seen any of the GPS data yet). Pursuit race tomorrow (restricted to the harbour again unfortunately) - hope the wind holds out. ------------- Javelin 558 Contender 2574 |
Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 25 Aug 13 at 9:33pm
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1. Today I enjoyed some of the greatest sailing of my life in big winds, nice lumps and a great bunch of competitors from numerous classes out there.
2. Results were all online by 1830 (no mean feat considering all those different classes out there). 3. The "declaration" of how many laps you'd completed was a confirmation, to ensure there was no error in the tracking tech/human input - v wise IMHO. 4. I'm currently watching the race tracking on the big screen in Portland House, and it's all available for every race right now, through the Tack Tracker app, or through clicking the "LIVE" tabs on the event homepage. I've enjoyed this weekend more than I could possibly express, and am definately coming back next year. ------------- |
Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 25 Aug 13 at 9:41pm
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Live GPS tracking was on all day ion the big screen in the WPNSA cafe. ------------- |
Posted By: i tick
Date Posted: 26 Aug 13 at 12:19am
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Well I can tell you the Bytes (in their Nationals) had no complaints about the sailing or the race management. The live tracking was a bit odd for us spectators....well you cant spectate really but I can pick out our boat through my powerful binoculars and since it was in front five times out of six it was enough! Did someone really want to go out into the sea? It was hard enough to get back at the end of the last race as it was. There were some very classy sailors and some good video at the de-brief's. As an event it was not perfect but with some development it could be amazing next year.
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Posted By: Bootscooter
Date Posted: 26 Aug 13 at 6:29am
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Totally agree. This is the 1st time that the event has been held, and the 1st time that WPNSA has hosted and managed a large handicap event, so there were always going to be some hiccups. The fact that everything worked so well on day 2 shows that systems are being perfected and improvements made.
Most if not all of the issues raised earlier in the thread were due to constraints put upon the organisers by both outside organisations and common sense (the Harbour Authorities weren't happy for racing through the breakwater gaps). Yes, there are things I'd like to see improve, but rather than sounding off on here (and risk giving a falsely negative impression to those that didn't attend) I'll be emailing Simon with constructive comments to help make next year even better. We've had an incredible time and just hope the weather Gods stay on our side for the Persuit Race today. ------------- |
Posted By: Simon Lovesey
Date Posted: 26 Aug 13 at 6:56am
Yes this is the first year of SailFest and the planning only started at the end of last year, so a few teething problems. We know there are improvements we need to work on, but hopefully as demonstrated we are fully committed to progress things. Lots of ideas for next year, and suggestions most welcome. Already several classes have signed up to make 2014 SailFest one of their key events and we will be working with them to help them make the most of the opportunity In addition to the racing there have been an array of other activities going on both ashore and afloat, what has been very pleasing is the hundreds of newbies who have turned up at WPNSA to try a new activity. Today is the Raymarine Pursuit Race, Toppers first off at 10:30 http://sailfest.sailracer.org" rel="nofollow - http://sailfest.sailracer.org ------------- http://www.sailracer.org" rel="nofollow - www.sailracer.org Online Sailing Results, GPS Tracking & Event Management |
Posted By: i tick
Date Posted: 26 Aug 13 at 6:26pm
| I just wanted to be the first to post this.......The Raymarine Persuit Race at Sailfest was won by Mike Radford from West Oxford sailing a Byte. Well done Mike! |
Posted By: Steve411
Date Posted: 27 Aug 13 at 10:19am
 ------------- Steve B RS300 411 https://www.facebook.com/groups/55859303803" rel="nofollow - RS300 page |
Posted By: yellowwelly
Date Posted: 27 Aug 13 at 10:34am
what you stayed in the pond all weekend? Oh dear.... might as well have not bothered with the travel and stuck to a (insert generic midlands puddle) for club sailing. ------------- |
Posted By: i tick
Date Posted: 27 Aug 13 at 11:23am
| On behalf of the class, thank you Steve. A good weekend for the class. How good did the little boats look out there? The 'boy' enjoyed his win greatly and was recorded at 11.8 knots on leg three in the last race. Were you the dacron 300? |
Posted By: Ruscoe
Date Posted: 27 Aug 13 at 11:38am
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If Duct Tape is now classed as dacron then yes that will be Steve ------------- |
Posted By: Dave.B
Date Posted: 27 Aug 13 at 12:33pm
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As much as I was looking forward to heading out into the bay, staying in harbour was the right call in the conditions, and the waves, although not big rollers we still bigger than anything inland.
I had a great event, it was good to be there for a long weekend in great weather. We stayed in the GB team olympic accomodation which is a wonderful facility.
The racing was excellent, albeit requiring a few tweaks on race lengths etc
The courses were just fantastic, good lengths of beats, outstanding reaches, one tighter one broad, leading to some incredible planing and overtaking opportunities for the different handicap classes.
My results sucked as I had serious boat issues (need to have words with the builder - oops that's me). My Farr very nearly sank underneath me due to a split between the inner side tank and floor, so I'm really please to not have been out in the bay and thank the capable rescue team for a long tow home.
------------- H2 148 H2 113 RS300 365 Farr 3.7 397 Build Blog http://davesfarr37project.weebly.com/ |
Posted By: Steve411
Date Posted: 27 Aug 13 at 12:36pm
Not the large rollers you get out in the Bay but still plenty of big enough waves in the harbour (it's 2 miles square so a large bit of water). Not really a puddle. I can reveal that the waves at the end of the run on the final race on Sunday were plenty large enough thanks.
Tick - the 300s either have a black sail (new) or a white sail (old). Mine was one of the white ones (2006 vintage). I did, however, use my new sail (2008) for the pursuit race.  ------------- Steve B RS300 411 https://www.facebook.com/groups/55859303803" rel="nofollow - RS300 page |
Posted By: Koops
Date Posted: 27 Aug 13 at 12:55pm
| You told me the old sail hadn't stretched against the new one so.....you poser :-) |
Posted By: i tick
Date Posted: 27 Aug 13 at 12:55pm
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Yes it was you then. The C2 sail used by the 'boy' was 8 years old. He had considered a new one but saved his money......so that was ok then. Sorry for your troubles Dave B. It was me who helped you fit it into the hangar. It looked lovely then!
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Posted By: Jack Sparrow
Date Posted: 27 Aug 13 at 1:45pm
OH Sh1t! Sorry to hear that Dave. To much wave jumping?!!!!! If you need a hand let me know. ------------- http://www.uk3-7class.org/index.html" rel="nofollow - Farr 3.7 Class Website https://www.facebook.com/groups/1092602470772759/" rel="nofollow - Farr 3.7 Building - Facebook Group |
Posted By: i tick
Date Posted: 27 Aug 13 at 6:33pm
| I studied the 'tracking' today. Interesting but odd.....I never saw an International Canoe and a Byte sailor called Chakrobarty never turned up.....his ghost was out there however! |