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How they patched it for towing. Go figure..

Thats because the local board decided they didn't want a maintainence hardstand. There was an offer on the table to operate it and the board voted 6-1 to reject it. Standard example of local boards ignoring regional requirements in favour of a very nimby outlook. Same thing happened in LSB.

Perhaps an effort needs to be in encouraging/incentivising smaller boats to sail. Less crew, less $. A racer cruiser under 12 m (Y11 / 1050) or PHRF under .8 is now a small boat. For the Icebreaker/Spring regatta in the weekend, A Division had the most boats. No 1020s, 1 R930, No Y88s. No TYs. There was quite an animated discussion at RAYC at the end of last summer about how to attract more boats to Gold Cup. But this applies equally to other racing. Funnily enough no real agreement was reached. But for better or worse, I've come back into the coastal racing game on a squabs on board

I think it's time for all yacht clubs to start to work together rather than competing and diluting every event! There are far too many races with the result being the competitors are spread thinly. There is no real break between summer and winter racing... it all becomes a bit monotonous... Wednesday night racing starts next week... most years a few boats are caught out and aren't ready or organised for the start of the season... miss a few races and then it's easy to think I'm not in the series ... so you miss a few more. Personally I think a Labour Weekend kick off would be a

As a 12 year old in the early 70's I recall seeing two plastered sailors brawling on the lawn in front of the snake pit at Bon Accord, they were so drunk nothing connected and nobody batted an eyelid. I thought ahh so this is all part of sailing Dad said the bottom of the bay was carpeted with discarded beer cans something that made it iconic at the time but thank goodness attitudes have changed.

Oh that looks good, what could possibly go wrong ?