"Garry Beattie" <gjbeattie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:4789e06c$0$30840$5a62ac22@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> "D Parker" <nospamozskipper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:47898a3c$0$30828$5a62ac22@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> It would be good to see something like Playstation and her sister cats
>> having a run south though. In fact, with the hobart fleet dwindling
>> somewhat since 98, it may be a choice the CYCA might have to make
>> eventually.
>>
>> DP
>
> If they did make it, then it would be a good decision.
>
> I still don't understand this "traditional" way of thinking.
> "If it isn't a monohul it isn't worth sailing" type mentality.
>
> I have sailed for 12 hours straight on my RL28 (mono hull) and could not
> wait to arrive so that I could stand up straight again, however I have
> sailed for 10 days straight from Vanuatu to Australia on a 50' catamaran
> and could have happily sailed it for another month or two.
>
> They sit better, they feel better and they are more "human friendly" in
my
> opinion, and YES they are faster.
>
> Yet the old salts will always bag them till the cows come home.
>
> Garry
Some time ago,at my favourite local sailing club, they shunned about 150
Cat
sailors and family who wanted to host their title there. I remember the
letter of request being read out at a General Meeting, then the committee
laughing and commenting "As If"
All this at a time when the club was seeking money to get the toilets
upgraded and really could have done with the Dosh. But there was no way
they
would host the comp. I asked "what is wrong with cat money" the answer was
a
pile of dribble about Cat sailors.
I guess the stereotype is that they are younger and therefore wilder
compared to TY sailors for example. But they are no younger and wilder
than
sailors on 12ft skiffs or 49ers who they would have been happy to host.
The money went to another club on Lake MacQuarie instead and the club
waited
another two years to get the new loos. Go figure.
DP
|
