All,
Brief intro first - Hi, my name is Jeff Penfold, a member of SHYC, and one of the people who has been sitting on the Sussex Regatta Committee for a couple of years now. I have also been part of the joint handicapping committee for a similar period.
However, for the purposes of this forum, I'll be putting my personal opinions forward as somebody who tries to race an old 32' cruiser about from time to time.
Enough of that.
In reply to the suggestion about combining the regatta with another event. My experience with this approach (albeit with dinghy events) is that it changes the character of the event, makes the organisation of it more complex, reducing the appeal to the more "grass roots" people for whom a pure inter-club event raises some personal pride.
I suppose the question is "what do we want the regatta to be?"
For me the appeal of the Regatta has been the opportunity to visit other clubs, meet new people, have some fun and do some racing against a whole new bunch of people.
Regards,
Jeff.
Brief intro first - Hi, my name is Jeff Penfold, a member of SHYC, and one of the people who has been sitting on the Sussex Regatta Committee for a couple of years now. I have also been part of the joint handicapping committee for a similar period.
However, for the purposes of this forum, I'll be putting my personal opinions forward as somebody who tries to race an old 32' cruiser about from time to time.
Enough of that.
In reply to the suggestion about combining the regatta with another event. My experience with this approach (albeit with dinghy events) is that it changes the character of the event, makes the organisation of it more complex, reducing the appeal to the more "grass roots" people for whom a pure inter-club event raises some personal pride.
I suppose the question is "what do we want the regatta to be?"
For me the appeal of the Regatta has been the opportunity to visit other clubs, meet new people, have some fun and do some racing against a whole new bunch of people.
Regards,
Jeff.