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14-05-2014, 12:34 PM
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Senior Member
Country: England - South Island
Location: Isle of Wight
Occupation: Boat Designer
Interests: PowerBoating, Catamaran sailing, Triathlon, Mountain Biking,
Boat name: Technohull
Boat make: 999
Engines: Verado x 2
Cruising area: cruising sounds too slow
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Isle of Wight
Posts: 1,827
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RYA Powerboating
Just seen the following video released by the RYA - under the title 'this is us' - enjoy.
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14-05-2014, 02:40 PM
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Registered User
Country: Guernsey
Occupation: Postie
Interests: Heavy Heavy Metal
Boat name: Slayer II, Slayer, Pen15
Boat make: Phantom 19G-R, Bernico F2 Extreme, Ring 15
Engines: Evinrude 115HO, Yam 90
Cruising area: Channel Islands
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 1,457
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Not a single offshore boat except those awful piss boats which don't count. Says it all!!
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14-05-2014, 02:48 PM
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Registered User
Location: hayling island
Boat name: snow monkey
Boat make: extreme 24
Engines: mercruiser 6.2
Join Date: May 2004
Location: hayling island
Posts: 2,072
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was thinking the same
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14-05-2014, 03:23 PM
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Senior Member
Country: England - South Island
Location: Isle of Wight
Occupation: Boat Designer
Interests: PowerBoating, Catamaran sailing, Triathlon, Mountain Biking,
Boat name: Technohull
Boat make: 999
Engines: Verado x 2
Cruising area: cruising sounds too slow
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Isle of Wight
Posts: 1,827
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Exactly - I have nothing against the classes shown and wish them all the best - but does seem rather a lot is missing.
Or is this a change of direction / policy for the sport from the RYA?
From the title of 'this is us' - kind of feels like a lot of us are not in the same 'us'!
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14-05-2014, 03:47 PM
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Registered User
Country: England
Location: Poole
Interests: Boats/cars
Boat make: Boss 21/Argentinian HotBoat
Engines: Mercury 2.5 Offshore
Cruising area: Poole/Solent
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Poole
Posts: 292
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That's a real shame as you'd think that as there's a new powerboat manager she would try to re-group and bring the sport together...maybe she'd like to comment on this forum !!!
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14-05-2014, 03:57 PM
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Registered User
Location: hayling island
Boat name: snow monkey
Boat make: extreme 24
Engines: mercruiser 6.2
Join Date: May 2004
Location: hayling island
Posts: 2,072
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they look at the site but dont comment,just like many others
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16-05-2014, 01:59 PM
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Senior Member
Country: England - South Island
Location: Isle of Wight
Occupation: Boat Designer
Interests: PowerBoating, Catamaran sailing, Triathlon, Mountain Biking,
Boat name: Technohull
Boat make: 999
Engines: Verado x 2
Cruising area: cruising sounds too slow
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Isle of Wight
Posts: 1,827
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in all fairness apparently the video was put together for the awards evening and there were no championships awarded to any of the traditional offshore classes - as a result of so few competitors.
So really time that offshore got it's act together. For me that would mean a major simplification , less classes, less clubs etc - but that's far too logical
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16-05-2014, 02:41 PM
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Registered User
Country: UK
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 1,226
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Looks extremely dangerous to me!
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16-05-2014, 02:51 PM
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Senior Member
Country: England - South Island
Location: Isle of Wight
Occupation: Boat Designer
Interests: PowerBoating, Catamaran sailing, Triathlon, Mountain Biking,
Boat name: Technohull
Boat make: 999
Engines: Verado x 2
Cruising area: cruising sounds too slow
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Isle of Wight
Posts: 1,827
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon Holmes
Looks extremely dangerous to me!
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It should all just be so simple.......
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16-05-2014, 03:02 PM
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Registered User
Country: uk
Location: lee on solent
Interests: skydiving powerboats
Engines: tower power lover
Cruising area: solent
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: lee on solent
Posts: 86
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hi
Excuse my butting in,,, but just returning from a 15 yr break from boats,,,i can see in less than two weeks that nothings changed in the RYA,,,i was thinking about going back to racing of some sort,,but in very little time,,ive made the decison for just a fun boat,,,i used to pump money at this,,older wiser and slightly more intelligent now,,,,i shant be wasting any in the rya`s direction!,,there was never much come back from them, unless you had something that was worth high thousands, and you raced abroad and actually came somewhere,,, then they would jump on the bandwagon for the attachment to make themselves look good,the clues in the word,,,,"Yachting", endeth the sermon!
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