Navigator wrote:
Sure, in your dreams.

You're calling me a liar, yet again? You don't ever learn.


40+ gust - 27 steady
33+ av - 50+ peak
35 av (a full gale) - 52 gusts.

Oh right, wind patterns are *always* exactly the same, even in different
hemispheres... aren't they?


I maintain, at 35 knt wind speed a dinghy is out of the range of
managability. Anyone who says otherwise has either never sailed in such
winds or is a braggard.

Like Oz1?

Sorry, you just plain don't know what you're talking about. Since you've
always insulted dinghy sailing, how can you now claim to be an expert on it?


Just as a matter of record, Doug what is your club policy on wind
strength for abandoning dinghy races?

One club I used to belong to had a policy of cancelling in "sustained
winds" over 25 knots. The College of Charleston sailing club will not
start a race with measured winds over 30 (I think this is on their web
site). The club I have done most of my sailing with the past few years
doesn't have a policy... but if the race committee has to leave station
to go rescue boats, then obviously the race cannot be scored.

The races I was referring to earlier were on Sarasota Bay. I don't know
what their club policy might be, but it looked like they were holding
races as long as anybody was out there running the course.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King