Grafham Cat open 24th and 25th October 20
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Topic: Grafham Cat open 24th and 25th October 20
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Subject: Grafham Cat open 24th and 25th October 20
Date Posted: 08 Sep 09 at 12:50pm
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All, The garfham open will be PRE ENTRY only this year; please enter by Thursday 22nd October. Club will accept fax entries to 01480 812206 with followup by phone to pay on switch CC. You can also enter via email as long as you sign it to mailto:admin@grafham.org - admin@grafham.org As usual we will be running 2 courses one for fast and one for slow; again we will have a single handed start on the fast course. Please note on the fast course you MAY be required to add an additional number to your mainsail to make it unique, these will be supplied. If you value your number, enter early; numbers will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis. First race warning signal not before 11:57 Saturday. Usual meal will be available and sailing video's will be shown on the big screen in the evening (when is the next rugby world cup???). NOR is http://gwsc.no-ip.org/gwsc_docs/2009/Cat%20Open%202009%20NOR%20v2.doc - here
All those who do enter are welcome to come and use the lake on Friday FOC (there will be rescue cover). Camping and motorhome slots need to be pre-booked as we are strictly limited my our landlords as to how many we are allowed. ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
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Posted By: Sprint Bob
Date Posted: 02 Oct 09 at 12:00pm
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Just 3 weeks to go to the Cat Open. On Saturday evening Osprey Catering will be doing a 2 course meal for £8.50 at 7pm in the upstairs bar. We will try out the new flash decor in the bar. We are buying some exciting sailing dvds to show on the big screen on Saturday evening - this year we plan to be able to show them throughout the evening  - last year we could not figure out how to run the machine after the one person who knew how to use it went home Don't forget to get it in your diary to both sail in the Cat Open AND to attend the evening meal/videos and to catch up on the social scene 
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Posted By: Sprint Bob
Date Posted: 02 Oct 09 at 1:16pm
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First race warning signal not before 11:57 Saturday. Usual meal will be available and sailing video's will be shown on the big screen in the evening (when is the next rugby world cup???). NOR is http://gwsc.no-ip.org/gwsc_docs/2009/Cat%20Open%202009%20NOR%20v2.doc - here [/QUOTE]
Please note that the first warning signal will not be before 11.55 and the notice of race has been slightly amended - the current one is: http://gwsc.no-ip.org/gwsc_docs/2009/Cat%20Open%202009%20NOR%20v2.doc - http://gwsc.no-ip.org/gwsc_docs/2009/Cat%20Open%202009%20NOR %20v2.doc Cheers Bob |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 12 Oct 09 at 8:40am
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12 days to go! ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 19 Oct 09 at 1:45pm
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Entry deadline is Thursday. Current forecast is 12mph and warm.... I'm planning to be there Friday afternoon to try and remember what my boat looks like! ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: AdrianM
Date Posted: 19 Oct 09 at 3:33pm
I saw it yesterday Simon and it looked in need of a bit of tlc...
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Posted By: nacra
Date Posted: 19 Oct 09 at 6:09pm
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I saw Adrian Maddison recently, he looked like he needed some TLC to... ------------- http://www.gpsails.com - www.gpsails.com http://www.nacra.co.uk - www.nacra.co.uk |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 19 Oct 09 at 6:24pm
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Hopefully all it needs is a clean. Anything obvious that needed doing? ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: AdrianM
Date Posted: 19 Oct 09 at 8:27pm
I think you might need to talk to a good sailmaker to make you up a new chute soon. If only I knew of one I'd give you his details....... |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 19 Oct 09 at 8:31pm
Ah, yes; I'd forgotten about that. I duck taped it about 4 months ago! Guess I will be duck taping and sewing it on Friday PM then!!
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Posted By: Sprint Bob
Date Posted: 20 Oct 09 at 12:30pm
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Just 2 days to get your entry in for the Grafham Cat Open. They must be received by Thursday 22 Oct. The Windguru forewcast is great Mild all weekend with 15mph South wind on Saturday and 22mph SW wind on Sunday For the Fast Fleet it is important that you attend the briefing as the windward/leeward course will have an interesting and unusual feature at the downwind gate. Make sure that you do not get it wrong.......... Meanwhile get your last minute entries in.......... |
Posted By: gary145
Date Posted: 20 Oct 09 at 5:55pm
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is it a secret? ------------- |
Posted By: Sprint Bob
Date Posted: 20 Oct 09 at 6:19pm
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yep - the best plan is to come to the briefing.......... Cheers Bob |
Posted By: gary145
Date Posted: 20 Oct 09 at 7:14pm
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or maybe theres a bell you have ring on the way round or maybe the marks are invisible i really need to know now ------------- |
will it be a mermaid ?
Posted By: Catsrule
Date Posted: 21 Oct 09 at 7:19am
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guess time! our leward gate is gonna be the other fleets windward mark? and its a no rules situation sowhos the gutsiest wins when the darts are swarming around the mark you want to go round? ------------- There's no such thing as bad day on the water!! |
Posted By: nacra
Date Posted: 21 Oct 09 at 8:50pm
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Blimey !!!! Catsrule is back! Wheres he been? ------------- http://www.gpsails.com - www.gpsails.com http://www.nacra.co.uk - www.nacra.co.uk |
Posted By: Dermot M
Date Posted: 22 Oct 09 at 1:41pm
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In School ? ------------- Dermot Shadow 075 |
Posted By: Worthy
Date Posted: 22 Oct 09 at 7:23pm
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I know what it is, and it is, shall we say, different. It is essential you go to the briefing otherwise you won't know what is going on when you get to the leeward mark. |
Posted By: gary145
Date Posted: 22 Oct 09 at 7:58pm
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nothing unusual there last year was manic with the leeward gate so close to the upwind gate maybe it will help with this????? ------------- |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 22 Oct 09 at 8:00pm
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Chaps
I may not be there this weekend I am afraid. I'm feeling very crappy at the moment...
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Posted By: Teamvmg
Date Posted: 22 Oct 09 at 8:35pm
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You go outside the buoys downwind then through the gate upwind. Its
official. |
Posted By: oz man
Date Posted: 25 Oct 09 at 7:42pm
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just back from graftham great weekend thanks to all at the club for putting on a good show again. leward marks were interesting think on the whole they worked quite well. |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 25 Oct 09 at 7:44pm
Oz, Did the gate work? Sorry I missed it; I spent most of Saturday ion bed!!! ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: oz man
Date Posted: 25 Oct 09 at 9:07pm
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hi simon you missed a good one. i would say the gates worked pretty well, the marks were quite away apart and you could lay the finish line without tacking so it was quite relaxed unlike last year. think there were less boats so it wasnt quite as manic which helped.
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Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 25 Oct 09 at 9:10pm
Very sad I missed it. Starting to feel better now.
We spent a lot of time working on the course. I think numbers were hit by having it before 1/2 term.
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Posted By: Teamvmg
Date Posted: 26 Oct 09 at 8:47pm
I WAS RIGHT! that was meant to be a joke! |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 26 Oct 09 at 8:54pm
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Did it work? Oz appears to think so; we are interested in comments !!!! ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: gary145
Date Posted: 26 Oct 09 at 9:18pm
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it did indeed work, much better than last year. the port hand mark was obviously the favoured end as it left you on starboard going back upwind through the gate, but there were a few laps where the starboard mark ended up paying off. We enjoyed the racing very much, even the really windy bits Thanks to everyone for their time and effort improvements for next time?- maybe a bit more room below the leeward marks would be good. They were a bit close to the bank if you had a problem. Also it would have been better to shorten course for each fleet when the leading boat in each fleet approached the line rather than stopping everyone no matter what lap they were on. The results needed a fair bit of adjusting to end up with the correct finishing order. Minor points that did not affect our enjoyment though! Looking forward to visiting again. ------------- |
Posted By: Sprint Bob
Date Posted: 27 Jul 10 at 5:42pm
Thanks for the comments. The course was much better. We plan to do a similar thing this year. We have to stay with a pre-entry requirement as it enabled us to ensure that the entries were correctly loaded into Sailwave and it also meant that we could deal with duplicate sail numbers across the classes. This meant that we avoided the results problems we sometimes have in previous years.
The date fior the Cat Open this year is 16/17 October. Get it in your diaries, folks. Bob |
Posted By: ASok
Date Posted: 27 Jul 10 at 10:49pm
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Clashes with the dart 18 inland nationals at datchet. That's a shame. I
haven't been to grafham in a while ------------- |