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Great stuff.
It also looks like we have been getting similar attendances to the Dart 18. Years ago they used to get double our Nationals attendance. These days it looks like we trade places to be top dog (cat).
Well done Jenny
Looks like a good attendance and a good event.
My word I bet Ed was happy to beat his old boat (but only just )
Well done to Scott for the rapid race report.
Regards
Bob
PS I'm not sure what happened to the Grafham sailors
With just one day left to enter the Sprint 15s have got the fantastic entry of 34 boats (6 local and 28 visitors).
It looks like we dominate the entry list like normal.
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And what's more: Save for the Unicorns who had 9 boats at their event, The Sprint 15 Class is the only catamaran class to run a 2020 nationals never mind two! Yes great attendances. A couple of classes did the same thing as us and held their Nationals at Grafham but their attendances were low. The ...
GWSC boats are not included in the pre-entry limitations so I'll enter later.. Hi Mark, I see that we are now at 48 entries. If you enter AND convince one other Grafham Sprint 15 to enter we would make 50, which gets us in the Y&Y's 50+ club. Do you know of any others you can lean on? Cheers Bob