| Portsmouth Tables Updated #19693 05/18/03 09:42 PM 05/18/03 09:42 PM |
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Posts: 290 Pensacola, Florida / Katy, Tex... | Check the Portsmouth Tables out. They have been updated to include the weight modification factors. Our voices have been heard. Thank you Bob Curry for following through, from all of us "Fat Boys".
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#19694 05/18/03 10:32 PM 05/18/03 10:32 PM |
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 1,459 Annapolis,MD Keith
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Posts: 1,459 Annapolis,MD | It's funny - when the weight mods were put in, everybody screamed bloody murder. "How dare they presume to think that weight has any effect on performance?" "This will drive out all the teams sailing at correct weight, now that people that are too heavy are given an unfair advantage!" "This will be the end of male/female teams!" Blah, blah, blah. They even put the clause in to make it optional, and to be used for local events only to appease everybody. When the corrections are removed, people scream to get them back!
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#19695 05/19/03 07:17 AM 05/19/03 07:17 AM |
Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 351 Dallas, Texas thom
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Posts: 351 Dallas, Texas | Hey Keith & Don-
I recall a thread about the crew weight issue about three years ago. Bill Roberts, myself and a few others tried in vain to get a change. Basically the same attitude. Thats the reason I dropped my membership in US Sailing.
Also Keith, I believe you have more boats in your fleet than anyone I've met.
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#19696 05/19/03 09:23 AM 05/19/03 09:23 AM |
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Posts: 1,459 Annapolis,MD | Thom, Yeah, nothing sparks the fire like a good discussion on crew-weight! As someone who is regularly above 200 lbs, I certainly have experience on my "unfair advantage". I do remember those threads, I probably put a word in or two, and I have definite feelings about it, but since nobody uses the weight corrections, to me it's a bit of a moot point. I give US Sailing the credit for at least responding to folk's requests about the issue - first by making it optional, second by removing it (they probably thought that's what people wanted given the previous uproar), and then by reinstating it per request.
My Fleet - actually there's a few more than in my tag line! Add to that 2 kayaks, 1 jetski (yes, yes, I know...), 2 incomplete windsurfers, and a Sailfish knock-off I built when I was a kid! Maybe it's time to reduce inventory... Nah!!!! | | | Hi Mary, It's Mine!
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Posts: 3,355 Key Largo, FL and Put-in-Bay, ... | That is my Taipan 4.9 sail that Calvert repaired. I picked it up right after the start of the Tybee 500 and, as you know, was scrambling to get to the first finish line. Sorry, Rick, the slob | | | Re: Portsmouth Tables Updated
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#19702 05/20/03 11:38 AM 05/20/03 11:38 AM |
Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 397 Burlington, Vermont USA Kevin Rose
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Posts: 397 Burlington, Vermont USA | And I have been driving around now for weeks with a fully battened catamaran sail in my Honda Civic. I don't know whose it is or why it is there or what I am supposed to do with it. Sell it! Oops. Sorry, Rick . . .
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#19703 05/20/03 11:43 AM 05/20/03 11:43 AM |
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Posts: 397 Burlington, Vermont USA | My Fleet - actually there's a few more than in my tag line! Keith, I noticed the image has been swapped. With that fleet, maybe it's time to add an animated GIF to give them all a showing.
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#19705 05/22/03 08:20 PM 05/22/03 08:20 PM |
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Posts: 290 Pensacola, Florida / Katy, Tex... | Hello Thom,
The minimum crew weight on the ARC22 is 325#. I think you may have looked at the actual minimum boat weight, which is around 415#-420#. Anyway, on our boat, skipper and crew weigh in at a combined weight around 440#, so you and a couple of crew members coming in at 410# should do just fine. And, with a view!.....that's hard to beat. Come see us in the Florida panhandle sometime. We have 4, ARC22s racing , and 5 makes our own a class!
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