Cat sailing is decaying
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Category: Multihulls
Forum Name: Dinghy multihulls
Forum Discription: For those who prefer two (or more) hulls to one!
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Topic: Cat sailing is decaying
Posted By: Teamvmg
Subject: Cat sailing is decaying
Date Posted: 29 Aug 10 at 5:04pm
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We have just had 130 cats racing in the venue for the
Olympics that multis have got chucked out of, and there has not been one decent press release or a fleet photo. The F18s had a huge fleet at the worlds this year and similarly offered a really poor PR performance. [The nationals was rubbish too] I thought that we had set up a multihull governing body to promote what goes on and make sure that we get back into the olympics? I know that we have just seen the ICCCT going on and there are rumors that the AC may go to multis, the VX40 stuff is great too, but the one thing that makes a difference to our sport at grass roots level [Certainly at Youth level] is the olympic selection and we need it back! C'mon cat sailing get your act together [ In no way is this meant as criticism of what guys like Jon Worthington, Nick Dewhurst, Nick Henson are doing/have done - just that we need more!] |
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Posted By: Teamvmg
Date Posted: 29 Aug 10 at 5:06pm
| I know its ICCCCT! |
Posted By: ASok
Date Posted: 29 Aug 10 at 11:50pm
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Very harsh and the topic title is a load of
bull****. Volunteers normally post the press releases and they also have to sail and enjoy themselves. I can't see how they'd influence an Olympic selection through their postings? The darts did have 130 plus boats last week. Cat sailing is awesome fun and well supported. However the olympics don't want us. Get over it and move on. It's political. Mere mortals will never get a say. You may note that have been through the angry stage. Then disappointed, now just apathy. The guys that won the dart worlds should have represented teM gb. I'm gutted for them ------------- |
Posted By: ASok
Date Posted: 30 Aug 10 at 12:00am
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I meant team GB. Strange iPhone formatting! ------------- |
Posted By: Rockhopper
Date Posted: 30 Aug 10 at 6:38am
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i talked to a friend of mine who had just done the dart 18 worlds and said that there was visitors from all across the world watching and reporting back to there own countries so as everyone else has said the title is wrong cat sailing is fine you could just do with a few more pics from the events ------------- Retired now after 35 seasons in a row and time for a rest. 2004 national champ Laser5000 2007,2010,National Champ Rs Vareo |
Posted By: Stuart O
Date Posted: 30 Aug 10 at 10:18am
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From memory there was a report on Day 1 (friday) of the F18 nationals in the saturdays clubs section here. I know Hugh was at a wedding on the Sat after racing so was otherwise occupied and the final write up was on YnY website on Tues...hardly a slow turn about! Cat sailing is not on the decline unless you look only at the Tornado, which unfortunately is going thru the post olympic slump as others move to F18s. The numbers of F18s at this years nationals was well up on last years. So as for the title totally misleading...cat sailing is doing well....Could it do better with promoting itself??...OF COURSE, but as others have said with volounteers doing write ups who are there to enjoy the sailing these may be delayed. hardly think that monohull sailing is on the decline with only 2 write ups from the RS200 and nothing as yet from the RS400s!! |
Posted By: AdrianM
Date Posted: 30 Aug 10 at 9:34pm
| I agree with Paul. We need to promote ourselves better. |
Posted By: a_dowley
Date Posted: 31 Aug 10 at 12:54pm
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Did anyone see all of the work I did at the Tornado Worlds over 10 days? Video and photos and reports to the world and the press all the time. Check out all of the stuff on the ITA website and YouTube channel http://www.tornado-class.org/events/worlds.htm - http://www.tornado-class.org/events/worlds.htm http://www.tornado-class.tv - http://www.tornado-class.tv We had 450 fans on our Facebook page before the Worlds and now have over 1000 just from that publicity. The Tornado may look like it is strugelling (you are always going to get less people at events once the Olympians have gone) but across the World it's still as big and there are lots of keen sailors out there. If you look at the number of Worlds entries to the amount of boats out there I think the Tornado did quite well if you compare it to other fleets. The UK Nationals are happening at the end of September and we have teams from AUS, CZE, GER and GBR coming along. There will also be a press release every night with the latest results. We are also leading the fight as a class to bring the Multihull back, there will be lots of Tornado sailors in Athens at the ISAF meeting and we have a game plan. I don't 100% agree with the title of this forum topic but I do agree that there is hardly any action/media being shown by the catamaran classes. Thoughts are welcome............ ------------- https://www.sailingchandlery.com/rope-for-sale.html" rel="nofollow - Rope for sale https://www.sailingchandlery.com" rel="nofollow - Sailing Chandlery - Online Chandlery - Number 1 Rated |
Posted By: Tornado_ALIVE
Date Posted: 31 Aug 10 at 1:00pm
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I would say that yourself and the Tornado class did a bloody good job with the promoting and keeping us up to date. More so then many other Multihull events this (Northern Hemisphere) season. BTW, still love sailing on the big T and looking forward to our season kicking off in a few months. ------------- 
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Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 31 Aug 10 at 2:35pm
Looking forward to the daily reports - can you make sure club@yachtsandyachting.com is on your distribution list?  |
Posted By: a_dowley
Date Posted: 31 Aug 10 at 2:37pm
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Posted By: Teamvmg
Date Posted: 31 Aug 10 at 3:23pm
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Ok, some of you don't like the Title.
Some individual cat classes are doing really well, they must be promoting themselves to do that. I am aiming my criticism at cat sailing as a whole. after the furore over the Olympic decision, all cat sailors pulled together under the banner of UKCRA to speak with a common voice. we started to get F18 and dart youngsters joining the Dragoon charter program and classes started to combine at events again and If we ever got olympic selection back, we could be sure that the best sailors from all any of our classes would be in a position to take up the challenge. So, I guess i am having bit of a dig at UKCRA for not keeping the pace up and involving the cat classes in an overall system. Or maybe it is the cat classes that can't be bothered to support UKCRA? Either way, at a time when women's match racing seem to be needing to press-gang sailors into boats, it would be a good time to shout about how cool cats are! |
Posted By: oz man
Date Posted: 31 Aug 10 at 10:33pm
| dont wish to be picky but isnt it ukcra not ukra. |
Posted By: Teamvmg
Date Posted: 31 Aug 10 at 10:45pm
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Fixed it
the United Kingdom Rocketry Association have a lot to answer for! |
Posted By: CatWebmistress
Date Posted: 31 Aug 10 at 11:07pm
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Hello all,
I take care of the internet portal of UKCRA (catamaran.co.uk) and would welcome any submissions of news, race reports, photographs, links, gossip etc... news@catamaran.co.uk 
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