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kingdacks
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Topic: Courses for Open Meetings Posted: 04 Apr 13 at 9:41pm |
I am sure you would get to do some harbour exploring in Poole weekend ( it was called Poole week) this year.
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Medway Maniac
Really should get out more Joined: 13 May 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2788 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04 Apr 13 at 11:47pm |
Provided you are in the right class (which we hopefully will be).
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fab100
Really should get out more Joined: 15 Mar 11 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1005 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Apr 13 at 11:59am |
Come to Frensham, either an Open or the Frenzy (week after Dinghy Show, you missed it for this year)
We have 9 marks and usually use 8 of them in club races and opens, giving 3 different beats and a variety of downwind angles. One course has 3 successive gybes, always a laugh in a serious blow. Navigation is not usually a problem for visitors. An hour race will be 3 to 4 laps, so your boat handling better be up to snuff but it does explain why my legs hurt at the end of a mile long beat elsewhere. And regardless of what that pond-monkey will say, you can be competitive and have great fun in an RS100 - far more fun than an Autumn series of one-way, tide driven sausages at HISC
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pondmonkey
Really should get out more Joined: 12 Aug 11 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2202 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Apr 13 at 1:05pm |
I never said you couldn't have fun, but if you can't get the kite up when others are planing in normal 'off wind mode' then sorry, no, you're not 'competitive' as 50% of your downwind sail area is restricted from use- especially with the falling PN from the original manufacturers recommendations. However above all of that, I'd make a couple of 'macro' points: 1) if there are other 100s, D1s, 400s, 200s, L2ks etc then don't worry about the unarigs and symmetrics; hike hard and smile. 2) if you're taking PY racing that seriously that it bothers you enough to consider changing classes to get something 'more competitive', then quite frankly you're missing the point of yardstick scheme and you really need to find a club offering some fleet racing in your current class, or something else.
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