Do you have Salcombe Regatta planned into your schedule this year? :o
Have you booked your accomodation?
Have you sent your entry in? ??)
Reduced price entry finishes on 1st August! 8)
Entry forms can be downloaded from http://www.salcombeyc.org.uk/content/entry-forms/
So far only Meds and Mr Greening have entered! :-/
I understand that Med's is taking our threat so seriously he is attending the practice regatta this week!
David
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This is true. We have taken up the opportunity to do fishing boat week. Sailed it for the first time today, reasonable breeze. Safe to report that we have no where near mastered what we should be doing with the coloured sail at the front. Performance appears to be best when it is hidden it its chute.
Anyway match racing Mr Greening does not sound as fun as sailing against more of you. Please enter!
meds.
Sorry but I can't make it this year :'( - had to toss a coin to choose between Salcombe & Porthpean.
Don't let our absence stop the rest of you going to what is always a brilliant regatta!
Cheers
David
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Sadly for us this is the third year we haven't manage one of the Salcombe weeks, once again we'll be spectators at the Cadet champs.
It would be nice to know how some of the 12 sailors are getting on in those boats with the funny mainsails this week. I haven't seen any results so far but I would put a few quid on Antony and Fran (Fran being a x-Cadet sailor won't have any problems with that third sail). Dave C
Shall be down in Salcombe with daughter (but without sniff! yot :'() - too far for Nuttyshell. So spectator seats only I'm afraid!
Jim N3130
OK Answered my own question! see:
http://www.salcombeyc.org.uk/content/racing-results/^merlin-rocket^Marchand_Petit_Merlin_Rocket_Week_Competitor_List_2006/
in Brief, Tom is 5th with a 3rd on the first day, Antony/Fran 33rd with a 17th and Meads 63rd with a 32nd. They race in flights as you can't get 96 boats on the line at Salcombe! It's scary enough with 40+ believe me!
Also noticed Andy Douglas crewing and one Derek Davies dns!
If anyone needs a crew for salcombe I am in salcombe as of the 12th. Although i have not crewed a 12 before I race regularly in my Vareo so am not a novice and know Salcombe pretty well. And who knows by then I might have my own 12, although it would not be in Salcombe. :'(
let me know if anyone is interested!
Thanks
Jon (12stone ish)
P.S. finding the right boat is harder than I thought!
Attn. John Murrell who I assume was in the box yesterday! Was Mr Gifford (10th) covering Mr Meadowcroft (11th) to the finish yesterday? Watchhouse webcam was not working so I couldn't tell!
David
Funny- no matter how big a fleet you are in you end up racing your mates! Meads could do well in that old boat he's sailing if the wind stays light.
I see Tom had a second yesterday.
And today....................................
well the results dont tell all, Tom got a bullet (he thought) but the cannon was empty so was posted as OCS. He is protesting...................
As to the rest, go to the results page!
For me it was a choice between Salcombe and Bassenthwaite and this year Bassenthwaite won. So many choices, so little time!!
Mike
N3274
Shame about Tom's OCS. I see he got his bullet yesterday so that must have fired him up! Anthony and Fran had an 8th I see.
I can't understand how the Merlins can get nearly 100 entries but we struggle. OK I've been off the scene for a while but Salcombe is a great venue for a family holiday mixed with some competitive racing and where both modern and older boats can compete on equal terms (on some days at least). It's not that long ago we had 30+ on the start line. Is this part of the problem? - the modern boats don't like the idea of being challenged by some oldie?? ........ooooh getting controvercial now!!
Dave (tongue-in-cheek)
Don't think it's that Dave - it's the older boats that seem to be staying away. Maybe we have things the wrong way round - pushing the champs and not really advertising Salcombe Week very strongly. Salcombe is definitely better for the majority of family crews - the champs is quite a slog by comparison...
It's a critical mass thing for the Merlins I'd guess - they know they're guaranteed big fleet racing every year so it's easy to justify the cost and travel distance for Salcombe (which is not one of the cheaper summer regattas, especially with them trying to charge for trailer parking last year - all the little 'extras' start to give the impression of being taken advantage of...).
Tim,
Trailer parking and Salcombe is a perennial problem! This is the reason we are offering competitors the availability of leaving them in the school playground this year and in so doing contribute a fiver to the school funds to help with extracricular activities - possibily even sailing!
John
John,
I thought trailer parking was free if you left them in the park n' ride up the top or has all that changed now? How many boats have entered this year? I would be worried that the 12's would get moved to a morning start if the numbers are small. I hear the RS's are getting keen on the regatta despite the fact that an asymetric isn't the best down-wind configuration for the estury.
Dave
Dave,
The Town Council have decreed that trailers don't look pretty so they don't allow them anymore!
Somehow I, like you, thought that Salcombe was all about boats and that trailers come with boats, however our local councillors beg to differ.....................
John
Shame they haven't banned the seagulls and the late night bus bringing the revellers back from the fleshpots of Kingsbridge!
Dave!
Kingsbridge Fleshpots?!?!?!
The butchers up the high street doesn't stay open that late.... :P
Tally Ho! (Insider pun)
Jim N3130
P.S. Anyone need a crew member? I wouldn't mind.....
Salcombe Week is the premier event for Merlins
Burton Week is the premier event for 12's
I don't think that this is ever going to change.
Salcombe is a brilliant venue for older 12's, I have no problem with 2935 showing me the way around! Salcombe also has to compete with Bass week and Norfolk Week.
By the way, isn't Meds doing well in a 35 year old Satisfaction!
Regards,
David
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Well I did say "tongue in cheek!". Seriously though we did get woken up at some ungodly hour when a bunch of drunks arrived back on the late, late bus from Kingsbridge a few years ago.
I would dispute that the Merlins think Salcombe is their premier week, it's a close second to their champs but I will admit that they don't have any similar, competing weeks (like NW Norfolk for example) to dilute the entry. Having just sold my Merlin (a Canterbury Tales) I was thinking that a well sailed Satisfaction or similar would be a good bet at Salcombe and Meds has proved this to be the case (I wonder if it will be up for sale after??). I think things would have been different if there had been a low pressure system or two this week.
Looks like Tom won his protest and it's all to play for going into the last race.
And Fran & Antony seem to be getting the measure of the beast - improving with every result