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423zero
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Topic: Topper Colours Posted: 16 Aug 20 at 4:26pm |
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They still come back to bright red, when they have been heat treated, not sure if they fade by the same rate.
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Robert
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Rupert
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The yellow ones that faded to grey were the worst for UV. Visage even wrote a song about it.
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Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686
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sargesail
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Or rather wonderful that there are schools prepared to give scholarships to sailing athletes! |
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sargesail
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 16 Aug 20 at 8:51pm | |||
Sorry to single your post out Jim, but it’s the easiest to illustrate that wanting to be anonymous is not about cheating. Not all ROs will General Recall every start where they couldn’t see all the numbers. So not standing out in a yellow boat is about not being the boat that is remembered, among many that are not. Back in the day I had a Fuscia Laser. There were two boats of that colour. We both picked up a black flag....but I got lobbed when he was over, and vice versa. |
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JimC
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We shall have to agree to disagree. Although I didn't say cheating, I said morally dubious. |
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423zero
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 17 Aug 20 at 6:08am | |||
Seems unfair to penalise a boat on its colour and not being able to see the number, talking about a couple of boats of the same colour not one.
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Robert
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sargesail
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 17 Aug 20 at 7:58am | |||
You quoted cheating! Personally I can not see that it is morally dubious to minimise the chance of being singled out from a group of miscreants by not choosing to have a different hull colour. |
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salmon80
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I have always had boats which blend in on the startline to avoid being called out as over the line
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Pierre
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I think that some of the responses here demonstrate that a win at all costs attitude is alive and well at all levels of the dinghy sailing community. So much for sportsmanship
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polc1410
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No. I don't think that's what's going on. It's not people wanting an invisibility cloak so they can cheat.
It's that people, rightly or wrongly, think a more noticeable boat may be singled out. 20 boats on a start line. 5 are OCS. If all are identical and the PRO can't identify them he either ignores it or gen recalls. A gen recall is not unfair / unsportsmanlike. (If he ignores it, that's unfair on the 15, but isn't the 5 sailors fault) If there is a blue a yellow and a pink with a funny sail he can identify those. If the other two are reds and ahead of them he presumably will gen recall. On a black flag the yellow, blue etc may get punished. They may not even have been over on "go" but get punished. The two reds might get away with it. **That** is unfair. If the two reds were behind them, i.e. barely over the line, wouldn't be the first time a PRO has decided to ignore them. Still unfair. And only possible because the three "different" boats were identifiable. There is no circumstance on the start line where being identifiable is helpful. Being yellow may be helpful or unhelpful in a protest. If you say "123456" hit a mark and didn't do turns. If you think 123456 is red but is yellow, your case is dismissed. It may be more likely that a witness will remember seeing the yellow boat do his turns. If there are only two yellow boats and the other guy says he never did turns, your witness is sound. But, there may be more chance of being protested because when they get ashore someone can work out which boat infringed because it was yellow... Once the top end guys decide to (a) buy red to blend in (b) buy red if it's cheaper (c) invest that money in performance - red gets a reputation for speed. Coloured boats become older, more knackered, sailed by less able sailors... Perpetuating the story. It's not people trying to cheat, it's people trying to be treated equally... |
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