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Winter Racing at your club - 1 or 2 day?

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Topic: Winter Racing at your club - 1 or 2 day?

Posted By: laser4000
Subject: Winter Racing at your club - 1 or 2 day?
Date Posted: 08 Nov 09 at 7:15pm

Simple question really - my club runs winter racing on both saturdays and sundays on a weekend without fleet discrimination - i.e. so you get general handicap racing on both days. My view is that this just splits the fleet across both days and thus reduces turnouts so I think we'd be better running racing on just one day per weekend over the winter.

Of course the converse opinion is that if people can't make sunday then they can sail sat and vice versa, but given that we're struggling a little for OOD's I don't see the benefit of running 2 days of racing. Saturday just gone we had 6 volunteers running racing for 10 sailors....

So simple question - what does your club do over the winter. Just Sunday racing, Just Saturday racing, Both, Follow the tide or what?

Thanks in anticipation.

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Posted By: bert
Date Posted: 08 Nov 09 at 7:25pm

The DYC that I was once a member of will follow the tide until the christmas / new year break & restart in the March so this will be sat & sun depending on tides rarely will both days be used for proper race days.

RBSC that I now am a member of will run sunday raceing through the winter & is one of only 2 clubs in the area that will do proper raceing in the winter.

The other being 30 miles away.

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Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 09 Nov 09 at 8:55am

At Hunts we sail all year round. There are 4 seperate series run from Novemeber to April.

Sorting the duty crews out is easy, it is run on a voluntary system but the caveat is that you must duty for at least 1 race in each series in order for your results to count for that series.

On the whole it works quite well. we did trial allocated duties through the winter last year but there were a few problems so we went back to the old way.

It makes sense if you think about is as those who sail in the winter will generally have the correct kit for doing OOD/Rescue in the winter.

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Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 09 Nov 09 at 9:08am

We have this laying up supper..

Get p1ssed, dance around a bit then wait til the clocks go forward..

Some of them bugger off to local gravel pits like Bewl..

Others spend yet another age waiting for lame boat builders to get their act
together...

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Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 09 Nov 09 at 11:10am

Which one are you then Grumpf..... or are you the 3rd type who gets out their pipe and slippers and sits in front of the fire until it warms up?

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Posted By: laser4000
Date Posted: 09 Nov 09 at 12:01pm

Originally posted by jeffers

At Hunts we sail all year round. There are 4 seperate series run from Novemeber to April.

Useful feedback but can you answer the basic question of whether it's racing on 1 day per weekend or 2?

Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 09 Nov 09 at 12:55pm

Originally posted by jeffers

Which one are you then Grumpf..... or are you the 3rd
type who gets out their pipe and slippers and sits in front of the fire until
it warms up?

I have been known to cut some moves on the dance floor of joy...

And I am waiting for some lame boat builder for about the third time in
my short career..

I haven't been out in a fortnight but I am on duty next weekend if they're
still racing, I've been away on business a bit lately.

However I do enjoy the break between New Year and clocks going
forward, rarely do much in that 'frostbite' period.

I'm looking for a venue to vacation over the Xmas period, anyone know of
somewhere warm with decent boats to play with?

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Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 09 Nov 09 at 1:12pm

Originally posted by laser4000

Originally posted by jeffers

At Hunts we sail all year round. There are 4 seperate series run from Novemeber to April.

Useful feedback but can you answer the basic question of whether it's racing on 1 day per weekend or 2?

Sorry completely missed that bit off. We only sail 1 day of the weekend and have 2 handicap races each day.

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Posted By: ChrisJ
Date Posted: 10 Nov 09 at 4:19am

Burghfield: Racing on a Sunday only - just like the rest of the year.

Saturdays at Burghfield are set aside, either for Open Meetings (March / April / October) or for the large number of non-racers in the club, who get special sessions and assistance to help them move from "just learning" thru "great fun" to "maybe I will try racing".

Brightlingsea: Racing on a Sunday (handicap only) from end October to end December. The rest of the year has racing on both Saturday (mainly handicap) and Sundays (as much class racing as is possible).

Posted By: A Seabadger
Date Posted: 10 Nov 09 at 7:22am

At Papercourt we race on Sundays only in the winter but organise class training on Saturdays. The training often has more boats on the water than racing on Sundays.

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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 10 Nov 09 at 11:04am

Just Sundays at Whitefriars.

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Posted By: Buzz
Date Posted: 10 Nov 09 at 4:19pm

At Restronguet we sail on Sundays until Christmas then stop till April due to the terms of our lease.

We do two races back to back with class starts for Lasers Oppies Darts etc and a fast and slow handicap for anyone who doesn't have enough boats to make a class. We lay two courses one windward leeward for assymetrics and a second comprising triangles and sausages for the others.

Posted By: Fraggle
Date Posted: 10 Nov 09 at 4:40pm

Sat and Sun racing (tide allowing) at Weston SC although we do stop in January for some reason.

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