Chris

Yes... its very clear that no one is accountable... and so my comments were meant to be antagonistic…. Perhaps somebody will step forward and address the problem when you take a verbal whack at them.

You just seem to be offended that I call this like I see it and your proposal is to block it out (that signal to noise thing)… so that you only see the happy things on the forum.

Yes my rant was NOT persuasive … it was a scold… you tend not to try to persuade five year olds … You scold them when they screw up! You don’t sweep it under the rug and pretend that everything will be fine!

The point is that your class behaved like five year olds and they need to get their act together and clean up the mess like adults!

You guys are debating a scheduling issue without making an apology to all those affected. Somebody like the class president (not clear who that might be) needs to speak out publicly and clean up the mess that you left at St Francis.

You also should make apologies to the other classes which now have to deal with repercussions when they request a yacht club to host an event.

Jake pointed to the thread…. Lots of people seemed to understand a long time ago that your class might have a problem with the event when it was scheduled and so well you did! Nevertheless... It seemed to get down to the final hour before somebody pulled the plug. How can that be? It looks irresponsible to me... thus the labeling of the class as a bunch of 5 year olds.

Unfortunately... we all get painted with the same brush here and I resent it!

So, I want to hear about some apologies to St Francis YC and to the other classes.

(If you want an example of how to do this… See the misunderstanding that occurred a few years ago with the A cat fleet and the Tradewinds regatta had a communications failure. The A class leaders took responsibility for the aftermath and then they move on)

Hey I am equally harsh on my class, the Tornado class has told CORK that they will be racing next weekend….Its highly likely that this is just wishful thinking…. I have emailed and spoken with all of the class powers that be that this behavior is not appropriate. I’m told that Cork is OK with the highly likely probability that the class will not show… BUT… at least Cork has given the Tornado class a pass. Maybe that was the deal with St Francis…

Mark