Cowes 2010 update

[Dozzer]

Can you pm me her number so that I can pass it onto a few non pc safety crews!

[Dozzer]

Also.....anyone know of a supplier of locking fuel filler caps that are not made of cheap plastic?!!

The 1500 litres of fuel we will have on board is a significant investment!

[Jon Fuller]

Originally Posted by Dozzer

The 1500 litres of fuel we will have on board is a significant investment!

Was it a good idea to advertise that on the web!

[Mike Lloyd]

Originally Posted by Dozzer

Also.....anyone know of a supplier of locking fuel filler caps that are not made of cheap plastic?!!

The 1500 litres of fuel we will have on board is a significant investment!

Just been talkig to Mike about that. We will need the same with 1100 litres of prime 110 octane fuel on board.
ML.
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[Foolish]

Originally Posted by Dozzer

Can you pm me her number so that I can pass it onto a few non pc safety crews!

Ditto ...

[Cookee]

Originally Posted by Ciao

This is a fairly urgent request.

We really need more safety boats for the Cowes Torquay Cowes race, Sunday 29th August to the west of Poole and through to Torquay.

If you can help, and you are based in that area, please email Helen Strickland.

ctc.cowes@gmail.com

Thank You

Have you asked on Ribnet?

[Martin The Talker]

Originally Posted by Ciao

This is a fairly urgent request.

We really need more safety boats for the Cowes Torquay Cowes race, Sunday 29th August to the west of Poole and through to Torquay.

If you can help, and you are based in that area, please email Helen Strickland.

ctc.cowes@gmail.com

Thank You

I passed details of someone who volunteered, from Weymouth, to Amanda - I assume that this was passed to Helen ?
Having said that, bearing in mind that Marathon Racers are supposed to be self-sufficient to a large extent, where are the safety boats required ?
RTYC in Torquay should be able to rustle up a few I would think.

[Mike Lloyd]

Originally Posted by Martin The Talker

I passed details of someone who volunteered, from Weymouth, to Amanda - I assume that this was passed to Helen ?
Having said that, bearing in mind that Marathon Racers are supposed to be self-sufficient to a large extent, where are the safety boats required ?
RTYC in Torquay should be able to rustle up a few I would think.

The RTYC supplied four for me last year for the CTC plus we had a committee boat in Torquay sitting on the last Mark with a film cameraman but the BPRC should have those details, cetainly Amanda does! The RYA don't - or didn't - require safety boats after the fleet leaves Hurst, that's the nature of Marathon racing.
ML.
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[Ciao]

Yellowbrick Tracking Ltd.

All boats competing in the CTC will be loaned 1 unit for the Sunday race free of charge, courtesy of the BPRC (we have paid for them).

This will further ensure your safety, and interested parties will be able to track the progress of the boats throughout the race on cowes2010.co.uk

(I can just see Flying Fish buying an internet capable cell phone) !

[Martin The Talker]

Originally Posted by Ciao

Yellowbrick Tracking Ltd.

All boats competing in the CTC will be loaned 1 unit for the Sunday race free of charge, courtesy of the BPRC (we have paid for them).

This will further ensure your safety, and interested parties will be able to track the progress of the boats throughout the race on cowes2010.co.uk

(I can just see Flying Fish buying an internet capable cell phone) !

Can you get use of such a unit for me to use in commentating at CYH, please John ?

[Ciao]

Originally Posted by Martin The Talker

Can you get use of such a unit for me to use in commentating at CYH, please John ?

I have enough problems with Harry on my mobile contract - Without you burning thru 5 hours of my mobile data.

[CJL]

Originally Posted by Ciao

This is a fairly urgent request.

We really need more safety boats for the Cowes Torquay Cowes race, Sunday 29th August to the west of Poole and through to Torquay.

If you can help, and you are based in that area, please email Helen Strickland.

ctc.cowes@gmail.com

Thank You

Two of my members have already offered and got no response.

PM me if desperate here or on RIBnet.

Chris

[Ciao]

Originally Posted by CJL

Two of my members have already offered and got no response.

PM me if desperate here or on RIBnet.

Chris

PM sent

[FLYING FISH]

Originally Posted by Ciao

Yellowbrick Tracking Ltd.

All boats competing in the CTC will be loaned 1 unit for the Sunday race free of charge, courtesy of the BPRC (we have paid for them).

This will further ensure your safety, and interested parties will be able to track the progress of the boats throughout the race on cowes2010.co.uk

(I can just see Flying Fish buying an internet capable cell phone) !

Yeah,so can I.

I`ll leave the boy`s toys to you high fliers.

Forget the tracking,just organise a proper course like the old days,instead of wrecking,what was a classic event for ALL.This was the one event that stood out worldwide for all sorts of reasons,not a race where by the time they got within sight of land half of them had retired.Look at the attached pdf to see how crazy the course variations can be over 76 miles of open sea.All that was needed was to use one of the buoys in Weymouth bay,that is used for the Cowes 100,to guarantee a show at Portland like that in the past.Not difficult is it.

[Delta28]

That was very tough, that year they went up past Wimborne Minster....

[FLYING FISH]

Originally Posted by Delta28

That was very tough, that year they went up past Wimborne Minster....

You cheeky monkey,have you no respect for the course setters.I`m struggling to have any.

[Delta28]

I know what you mean.

As a boy I used to watch the race from my Grandfather's house on the front at Cowes. We'd see the massed rolling start, see the firing of the start flare and never hear the starshell explode as they'd hit the throttles by then... it kinda made the hairs on the back of your neck stand-on-end!

We'd see the start Westwards, then watch them a few minutes later roaring up the far (North) side of the Solent, round Hill Head (or somewhere near the Brambles Bank) off to Lee-on Solent... waited with a craning neck to see them coming back from Ryde... Surfury used to power past close inshore... them's were the days!

After that we'd listen to the commentary and get updates of positions at Yarmouth, Bournemouth, Anvil Point, Portland, Brixham and Torquay.. then often very little until Yarmouth again! Great days and good for spectators.

Of course they had great Daily Express sponsorship and coverage. And I suppose the boats weren't quite so fast or seen as life-threatening! John and the BPRC must have to delicately negotiate with Coastguard and Harbour Masters / Authorities. Maybe there's been too many incidents in the more recent past...

P1 had ridiculously short courses and many boats (especially diesels) couldn't even get up to decent running-trim, plus the spectators got totally confused by the boats lapping slower ones, which lap they were on etc.

I know the marathon boats want to do their stuff in proper offshore conditions and long distances, but what about the word compromise? It's spectacular and great to watch, but loses a great deal for the landlubbers if they're too far offshore... plus more interest equals attracting more sponsorship. But then we all know this.

Would be good to get a decent gander at all this expensive machinery flying past!

[Mike Lloyd]

Originally Posted by FLYING FISH

You cheeky monkey,have you no respect for the course setters.I`m struggling to have any.

Well there's no way we can hug the cliffs past you on the way out as originally intended FF because THEY are determined that we go deep water and head off to Start Point and the Skerries for God's sake so there goes our back up plan for going round the bay. I promise that we will hug the cliffs on the way back though - that's if the God's are kind!!

This course definitely favours the bigger boats, heaven help the smaller ones if it's rough, but that's just MHO.
ML.
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[Martin The Talker]

Originally Posted by OldMan

Well there's no way we can hug the cliffs past you on the way out as originally intended FF because THEY are determined that we go deep water and head off to Start Point and the Skerries for God's sake so there goes our back up plan for going round the bay. I promise that we will hug the cliffs on the way back though - that's if the God's are kind!!

This course definitely favours the bigger boats, heaven help the smaller ones if it's rough, but that's just MHO.
ML.
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I belive I'm right in saying Mike, that The Skerries always featured in C/T & CTC Courses up until the 1990's. It did dissapear when the 1968 CTC Course was introduced, but did, I think, re-appear in the 1970's etc.
Certainly agree that the course does favour larger boats in rough-ish water.

[Martin The Talker]

Originally Posted by Delta28

I know what you mean.

As a boy I used to watch the race from my Grandfather's house on the front at Cowes. We'd see the massed rolling start, see the firing of the start flare and never hear the starshell explode as they'd hit the throttles by then... it kinda made the hairs on the back of your neck stand-on-end!

We'd see the start Westwards, then watch them a few minutes later roaring up the far (North) side of the Solent, round Hill Head (or somewhere near the Brambles Bank) off to Lee-on Solent... waited with a craning neck to see them coming back from Ryde... Surfury used to power past close inshore... them's were the days!

After that we'd listen to the commentary and get updates of positions at Yarmouth, Bournemouth, Anvil Point, Portland, Brixham and Torquay.. then often very little until Yarmouth again! Great days and good for spectators.

Of course they had great Daily Express sponsorship and coverage. And I suppose the boats weren't quite so fast or seen as life-threatening! John and the BPRC must have to delicately negotiate with Coastguard and Harbour Masters / Authorities. Maybe there's been too many incidents in the more recent past...

P1 had ridiculously short courses and many boats (especially diesels) couldn't even get up to decent running-trim, plus the spectators got totally confused by the boats lapping slower ones, which lap they were on etc.

I know the marathon boats want to do their stuff in proper offshore conditions and long distances, but what about the word compromise? It's spectacular and great to watch, but loses a great deal for the landlubbers if they're too far offshore... plus more interest equals attracting more sponsorship. But then we all know this.

Would be good to get a decent gander at all this expensive machinery flying past!

Oh Happy Days !!! What memories we have - I was there !