Adam said:
Cookee
What is there to report on RIB - believe it was the BIBOA dinner/dance/AGM ?
Anything decided on your classes / racing?
How do you think the RIBS would feel about the above courses / format etc. In the past it seems that if you give RIB's long courses to do then they moan they are not in-shore enough and visa versa! Just important to know.
Cheers
Adam
The BIBOA AGM was on Sunday morning and, of course thee wasn't time to catch up on what was said at your meeting so bear that in mind.
There really is only 1 boat in what was Formula 1 ? Open class and that is John Lindsay in "Ice" - the big Seatek RIB so Formula 2 will be known as Formula 1 from now on.
There was some confusion over wether it was going to be Cowes Toquay or Torquay Cowes next year though!
Also some confusion over the XR2 / green engine situation, but as the UIM have said, when the number of XR2's in a class in an International series goes below 1/3 the following season will be green only - RIBS will be OK because, like OCR we only race nationally!
With all the talk of more and better venues who are more enthusiastic I am sure the RIB class would come around to the sort of courses being suggested, I for one wouldn't mind anyway.
As far as other things are concerned I believe that websites including the RYA's (and mine!) are not updated often enough, and do not help the people trying to get into the sport enough.
We should encourage teams to provide giveaways at venues for comentators on the spot prizes (stickers etc). Investigate the possibility of bringing other entertainment to race weekends like the Robot Wars stand at Ramsgate or even the bikini contests that the Jet Ski boys have on thier tour. More boat parades like Exmouth - great fun for the competitors and gets the weekend going so even if the PR before the event is awfull (still) then at least the town will know we've arrived! If it's too expensive with the cost of police etc then local businesses migh sponsor it or a National company might sponsor the "tour"?
Hope that's enough to be going on with,