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Not sure why we would want to make it compulsory to put furlers on boats. Not everybody wishes to put a jib on to sail in sport races. If this was brought in I am sure we would reverse it at Shanklin. It goes against the spirit of the Sport rules in that you can put on or take off whatever parts you...
Thank you for looking after us. Pete did a great job in the committee boat; not losing his nerve when the wind went round 40 degrees and then back again.
Thank you to everybody at Stone for looking after us so well. As always I am crap at thanking people if I get the honour of having to make a speech but fortunately Jenny is much better than me at that. The results are on the web site including all the sub-categories. Congratulations to Marconi for t...
Thank you to everybody at Thorpe Bay for organising and running a great event. Perfect wind (until the very end) and excellent race management. The results don't look close but there was tight racing throughout six races and Jenny was very close to winning races 5 and 6. There is a video of race 1 o...
Class hopping is definitely an issue here. If people have more than one boat, they jump in the one that suits their handicap on that day. So results are skewed in favour of that boat. If people only race Dart 15s in mixed fleets when it's force 4+ then it will appear to be a fast boat. We do the sam...
