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Originally Posted by Fiona not P
But this is not for me to decide I would just like all parties to work together.  |
Fiona,
You are barking up the wrong tree.
If your wish is a properly organised national series for V24, your arguments need to be directed at Cliff Smith. I am not a problem in the way of a proper National Series taking place.
I re-iterate a previous post you appear to have missed:
1) I have a boat that complies with the rules for the class.
2) I wish to race the boat.
End of story.
However, there are efforts afoot ( and not an insignificant amount of money too ) to prevent me from racing for the solitary reason that I always beat this person during a race and he is tired of being beaten, and as such is making further attempts to have me excluded. ( I say further, as he has made attempts ever since Ramsgate 2005! )
Other points of interest:
1) Up to the time I overtook Cliff Smith in a race, there was no problems from him. From that very instant he became nasty and agressive towards both myself and Ana. There is an exact corelation with his behaviour and attitude towards us, and our ability to pass him on a race course. Prior to passing him, he was not a problem in any way. After passing him, he became a nasty person.
2) I have tried to conduct myself in a 'proper manner' whilst involved in a race. At poole 2007 for example, I broke my trim at the furtherest point from the harbour, and motored back at dislacement speed. On the way we came accross a broken down Cliff Smith, who had snapped his driveshaft. On VHF he was told there were no spare boats to tow him in as they were needed for safety and he would have to wait 45 minutes till the race was completed. As he was within 20 meters of us at that time, we threw him a line, and towed him back into Poole harbour, so that he did not have to drift for 45 minutes in the channel.
( and yes, you are correct, they did not return the favour at the very next race I went to - the Torquay finals. They sat drinking beer watching me struggle to get the boat and lorry back into the car park, not less than 20 meters away - without offering any help in any way. Also sitting there were two members of boatmad who did not help. Two other members of boatmad saw the issue I was having and came from the dock to assist. They arrived just as I had got the boat sorted, but they walked 500 yards to assist, where help in reversing the lorry and boat was sitting and not helping less than the length of my boat away from where I needed help! )
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