Suitable sponsors for classes
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Category: Dinghy classes
Forum Name: Dinghy development
Forum Discription: The latest moves in the dinghy market
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Topic: Suitable sponsors for classes
Posted By: gordon1277
Subject: Suitable sponsors for classes
Date Posted: 12 Feb 15 at 3:34pm
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Hi
As a Phantom sailor and before any of you Pukka Pies. 49er Ringwood brewery Aero Cadbury ------------- Gordon Lossc |
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Posted By: Paramedic
Date Posted: 12 Feb 15 at 6:22pm
Nestle produce the Aero if i remember rightly......
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Posted By: MikeBz
Date Posted: 12 Feb 15 at 7:12pm
| Tasa(e)r - Metropolitan Police. |
Posted By: Null
Date Posted: 12 Feb 15 at 7:46pm
| Blaze - Always/Bodyform? |
Posted By: Ozzie
Date Posted: 12 Feb 15 at 8:35pm
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Solo - match.com Europe - Ukip Enterprise - Tory party Contender - Columbia Pictures Inc Streaker - Heath & Efficiency |
Posted By: sargesail
Date Posted: 12 Feb 15 at 9:11pm
FTFY
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Posted By: Time Lord
Date Posted: 12 Feb 15 at 9:19pm
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Surely Solo's sponsor should be Philosan? Didn't it fortify the over 40s?
Merlin Rockets' Salcombe week is of course sponsored by Sharp's Doom Bar just to keep up Woodbothers perception of the class. The week is already sold out with 120 boats (Salcombe harbourmaster's limit) and its not until July. ------------- Merlin Rocket 3609 |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 12 Feb 15 at 9:29pm
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So, which class should be sponsored by Swan Vesta?
------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: Time Lord
Date Posted: 12 Feb 15 at 9:38pm
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Match racing in Swan yachts?? ------------- Merlin Rocket 3609 |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 12 Feb 15 at 10:51pm
The winner.... that's brilliant. |
Posted By: iiitick
Date Posted: 12 Feb 15 at 11:21pm
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Lighting......Flash Byte......Apple Corp. Supernova.....Vauxhaul.
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Posted By: blaze720
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 6:43am
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Well of course in reality we've reserved RED BULL for the Blaze .... We do give you wings after all ... And yes we think you do need them as well !
Null on the other hand might personally like to pursue 'Mates'
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Posted By: turnturtle
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 7:22am
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RS Aero 5 - Nickolodean
RS Aero 7 - Vagisil RS Aero 9 - Werthers Original Blaze - Tena Lady International Canoe - Senikot |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 7:51am
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Surely red bull is for the int moths? ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 8:02am
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True Rupert,I think that blaze should be Zimmer frames inc. Either that or the local scaffolding company ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |
Posted By: alstorer
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 8:23am
Plenty of competition there though! You're far from the only class with wings ------------- -_ Al |
Posted By: gordon1277
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 8:25am
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V2- Skip hire company. ------------- Gordon Lossc |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 8:30am
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I like the idea of the Lightning being sponsored by Pine Fresh Flash. Might have to clean my boat more often, though. ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 9:20am
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Phantoms and Solos surely has to be Old El Paso (food of bandits)..... ------------- Paul ---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
Posted By: knotty78
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 9:32am
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GP 14 - NHS
Merlin Rocket - Viagra |
Posted By: Null
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 10:20am
How is the personal sponsorship with Caneston going????
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Posted By: turnturtle
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 10:29am
failing miserably it seems... he still seems surrounded by irritating tw*ts.
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Posted By: iiitick
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 10:41am
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Of course Combs sailing club should be sponsored by....combs of course, but few of us have any need for one! Mind you....Topper, was there not a 'Crown Topper'? That could redress the problem. |
Posted By: Woodbotherer
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 10:57am
 ------------- http://www.edgeactionsports.co.uk/collections/soundcast-portable-weatherproof" rel="nofollow - Soundcast Weatherproof Speakers |
Posted By: blaze720
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 11:05am
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How is the personal sponsorship with Caneston going???? You seem rather well versed in this product area. Must we assume you recommend / endorse these and presumably similar products yourself then ? 
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Posted By: turnturtle
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 11:19am
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Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 11:49am
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Slow day TT? ------------- Paul ---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
Posted By: turnturtle
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 12:00pm
| took two minutes mate... |
Posted By: Woodbotherer
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 12:34pm
 Yes very good..------------- http://www.edgeactionsports.co.uk/collections/soundcast-portable-weatherproof" rel="nofollow - Soundcast Weatherproof Speakers |
Posted By: alstorer
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 1:07pm
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Actually, of all the winged boats most suited for "ladies sanitary product" sponsorship, the EPS is the closest to a "pad with wings" in looks... ------------- -_ Al |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 1:11pm
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"The Bodyform National Championships" does have a certain ring to it...
------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: turnturtle
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 1:37pm
a bit like 'The Grindr British Moth Open' then?
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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 1:59pm
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I'll show my unworldliness here - I don't know what Grindr is. I know not to look it up on a work computer, though.
------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: Woodbotherer
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 2:57pm
Bugger off Al, shouldn't you be on the phone to  Grindr is an app the SUP boardists use to meet each other, James has clearly gotten in with the wrong crowd in his windsurfing set.
------------- http://www.edgeactionsports.co.uk/collections/soundcast-portable-weatherproof" rel="nofollow - Soundcast Weatherproof Speakers |
Posted By: rodney
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 3:09pm
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Obviously a biased and prejudiced view on this and would welcome them as sponsors
D-Zero - Porsche D-One - Ferrari Finn - Bentley ------------- Rodney Cobb Suntouched Sailboats Limited http://www.suntouched.co.uk" rel="nofollow - http://www.suntouched.co.uk [EMAIL=rodney@suntouched.co.uk">rodney@suntouched.co.uk |
Posted By: turnturtle
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 3:14pm
actually I think I've been saved... longboards and Naish - can't go wrong....
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Posted By: gordon1277
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 3:18pm
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Hi Rodney
It wont work they will not let you have a car to give away with each boat! ------------- Gordon Lossc |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 4:55pm
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The most recent Canoe Europeans were at Loch Lomond. Sponsored by Tunnocks (chocolate mallow tea cakes and wafer biscuits)and Glengoyne (whisky), the nutritional requirements of the competitors were well catered for, and with appropriate cultural input!
I wonder what might be appropriate equivalent at other locations... Kendal mint cake at ullswater perhaps, pasties in Cornwall, Grafham I hate to think... Personally I think too great dependence on sponsorship is a mistake for dinghy classes. Some years ago I was president of one CA, and the Secretary of another was a few offices down the corridor. My class tended to pay our own way, his was highly reliant on sponsors. Met him one day looking really worried. Turned out their champs sponsor had dropped out and they were afraid they might not be able to run their champs. Couldn't help feeling smug. Trouble is a significant lump of sponsor cash goes (rightly) on providing a return to sponsor, but doing that dilutes volunteer resource, arguably even harder to find than cash. |
Posted By: turnturtle
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 5:06pm
good points... is there a sensible thread lurking in here?
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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 5:25pm
I hope not! Never really seen what return any event I've organized would have for a sponsor - it is simply grown ups playing with their toys, as was mentioned elsewhere a while ago. Being near Swindon, in the olden days we'd have been able to be sponsored by Great Western Railway. These days it would have to be the outlet village. Mind, there is a Musto shop in there, and a Henri Lloyd... ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: turnturtle
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 5:37pm
| I wondered where they'd gone... both used to be in Bicester, but they've been replaced by a shop that specialises in yoga pants and another place which sells expensive candles. |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 6:22pm
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What more could you want from life. Strange though, I've been doing Yoga for 18 months or so, and I've coped very well in cheap trousers from sports direct. Why do they need a specialist shop? ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: turnturtle
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 7:04pm
| Who knows... Cracking arses on the wall displays though |
Posted By: iiitick
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 8:33pm
| I had a crack at that there Yoga a few years ago after a bout of sciatica. Me and 32 women in the local school. I knew all those women from shopping in Morrisons! I could not look them in the face so I took up a position front left so that they could admire my bum when leaning over. One day the lady who works in the butchery department turned up and took my place! I was cast back into the scrum. Now, rather than the ladies admiring my nether regions I had to admire theirs. Believe me I am not sexist but this is a country area which breeds substantial stock. It was all to much and I was forced to leave. Now I conduct myself round the supermarket with eyes cast down and I buy my meat at the local butcher. |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 13 Feb 15 at 8:58pm
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I'm the token man at our session, but having been the token man all through bringing the kids up, I can't say I'm really that bothered. ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: JohnJack
Date Posted: 16 Feb 15 at 11:14am
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Solo - Old Spice Might have already been said, but not reading through 5 pages of comments
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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 16 Feb 15 at 5:00pm
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Not Brut for the Solo, then? ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: Woodbotherer
Date Posted: 16 Feb 15 at 5:51pm
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Formaldehyde for the Solo. ------------- http://www.edgeactionsports.co.uk/collections/soundcast-portable-weatherproof" rel="nofollow - Soundcast Weatherproof Speakers |
Posted By: NickM
Date Posted: 16 Feb 15 at 10:12pm
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Fireball - Cannon
Topper - Lock & co EPS - BPF (Google it. Expanded polystyrene. Ideal protection against those Kentish shore breaks.) |
Posted By: mangoman
Date Posted: 17 Feb 15 at 11:39am
| The Phantoms should be sponsored by Adnams as they make a beer called Ghost ..... |
Posted By: Woodbotherer
Date Posted: 17 Feb 15 at 12:12pm
http://www.britishpsychotherapyfoundation.org.uk" rel="nofollow - BPF? yes very funny... no really I wet myself..  ------------- http://www.edgeactionsports.co.uk/collections/soundcast-portable-weatherproof" rel="nofollow - Soundcast Weatherproof Speakers |