SDo youi prove my point. Over 35 knots average dinghies are outside the
range of managability 'cos thats why the races are canecelled. You still
don't understand?

DSK wrote:

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?

No, that's a met. service observation, true world wide. The gusts are
generally up to 1.5 times windspeed. A real sailor knows this.



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?


Yep. Memory always exaggerates wind speed.


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.


So you prove my point. Over 35 knots average, dinghies are
outside the range of managability and that's why the races are
cancelled. I've never heard of a race started in a full gale. As far as
I've experienced, force 7 is considered the point where the race
committee really starts to wonder whether to start a keel boat race and
looks hard at the Meteorology for the race period.

Cheers MC