Dinghy development: Fireball Europeans

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Fireball Europeans

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Topic: Fireball Europeans

Posted By: IanW
Subject: Fireball Europeans
Date Posted: 20 Aug 17 at 4:22pm

http://www.harboursystems.co.uk/fireball2017" rel="nofollow - http://www.harboursystems.co.uk/fireball2017

Good stream of chaos in Lyme harbour here.

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Posted By: 423zero
Date Posted: 20 Aug 17 at 7:19pm

Waves breaking over Harbour wall look interesting.

Posted By: sandgrounder
Date Posted: 21 Aug 17 at 10:14pm

Another comprehensive Europeans website but with no results.
Disappointed doesn't come close.

Posted By: IanW
Date Posted: 21 Aug 17 at 10:58pm

http://www.lymeregissailingclub.co.uk/championships/results/" rel="nofollow - http://www.lymeregissailingclub.co.uk/championships/results/

Posted By: sandgrounder
Date Posted: 22 Aug 17 at 8:04am

You've got to wonder what's the point of the op website ^^^^

Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 22 Aug 17 at 8:25am

Originally posted by sandgrounder

You've got to wonder what's the point of the op website ^^^^

Its a common problem.
Someone has the bright idea "We need a dedicated website for the event"
But then they don't really think about who's going to maintain it, whether they are thoroughly in contact with the organisers and everything else, and all the little boring detail that goes into actually producing something functional during the event.

Then, even worse, it disappears after the event and everything disappears. Better in my opinion to work with your main class webmaster and properly integrate it all with your main web presence. Its all a sore point at the moment.

Posted By: fab100
Date Posted: 23 Aug 17 at 10:53am

Curse of Wind Guru strikes again.

My spy tells me that the harbour master canned it first thing yesterday as an easterly F5 was due to kick in and a swell from that direction would prevent sailors and ribs re-entering the harbour. Of course the forecast was wrong and they missed a glam day's sailing.

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http://clubsailor.co.uk/wp/club-sailor-from-back-to-front/" rel="nofollow - Great book for Club Sailors here

Posted By: Noah
Date Posted: 23 Aug 17 at 8:29pm

Clive is entirely correct. The harbour master called it based on the forecast so we had our lay day early. Three races today in light to medium breeze.

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Nick
D-Zero 316

Posted By: sandgrounder
Date Posted: 24 Aug 17 at 8:06am

Originally posted by Noah

Clive is entirely correct. The harbour master called it based on the forecast so we had our lay day early. Three races today in light to medium breeze.

And still no updated results posted on either website or Y&Y news feed. Great shame, so much technology available and so little effort to promote the class.

Posted By: ian.r.mcdonald
Date Posted: 24 Aug 17 at 9:21am

I have not sailed Fireballs for 20 years. Its wonderful that its the same names at the front! have they all got paintings in the loft?

Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 24 Aug 17 at 10:45am

Looks like there are some protests to be resolved which is what is delaying the results.

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Paul
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D-Zero GBR 74

Posted By: peterthomas
Date Posted: 24 Aug 17 at 8:49pm

Results (first 5 races at the moment) available here:

http://www.lymeregissailingclub.co.uk/championships/results/