1st John Bell, 2nd Ben Hollis.
I understand that because there are no traveling members from Tamesis Club sailing in other events ( the vintage series, the river series and the Silver Tiller events), apart from their own, that this will be the last Silver Tiller Event at Tamesis, I think this is a great shame, not because its a great venue, not because there are too many trees, not because it has the largest merlin fleet in the country, but its the passing of an era,, I think there has to be a major rethink, from the Merlin Association, do the Committee wish to cut its ties with the past, and the ground roots of sailing Merlins, Upper Thames Sailing Club, Minima, and sailing at Putney will all be gone , if not already, but because one or two merlin sailors are Committee members are from Cookham or Hampton, or happened to do the Silver Tiller events at the moment, then these venues will be discarded forever, please tell me why?
I look forward to all of your imput,
Posted: 13/10/2013 21:21:21 By: Martin Huntwr |
Hi Ben
I believe part of the discussion on Saturday afternoon at Tammy was around the fact that a few years ago there was a debate between the River Thames clubs and the MROA committee (via email at least) as to how to allow all the River Thames clubs a fair share of the ST events. This happened when Mike Stephens was SE/London rep and l believe lead to an agreement that each club who wanted a ST event (not all do) would be offered one every other year and that each year two River Thames clubs would have a ST event - i.e. Hampton/Tamesis one year, Cookham/Upper Thames the next, and so on a round robin basis. I am not aware myself that Tamesis is necessarily demanding to have a ST event EVERY year. Every other year would be fair though I think.
Thanks Martin for your defence of Tammy. However, we have had travellers at both Vintage and Thames Series events over recent years up to and including last year (just check the previous overall Vintage and Thames Series results on the Merlin results webpage).
Anyway, it was indeed a great day's river sailing. See you at Ranelagh next Sunday for the final round of the Thames Series. Overall results after today's meeting will be posted tomorrow.
Cheers.
Posted: 13/10/2013 22:55:36 By: Richard (3606) |