Another good reason not to allow advertising - taken from a recent RS circular Email :-)
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Hi All

A very useful piece of advice has been passed to me recently which I would like to share with you.

As you are aware Fat Face are no longer sponsoring the RS Racing Circuit therefore many of you have, or are in the process of removing the Fat Face stickers from your mainsails. Please take great care as it is possible to damage the stitching & sail fabric if not done carefully. It is best done at home with a hair drier to gently heat a small area & then the sticker will peel off quite easily.

Good luck����.Debbie

They've nearly all got GUL sticks on the bows too....will it show a different colour when they get removed?!

Likely holding the boat together!!

In the light of the credit crunch and the RBS debacle sponsorship is revealed for what it is, ego trip for the sponsor, charity for the recipents and zippo value to the sponsor, it is obscene.

Hmmm. Thats not what RBS sports sponsorship say on their website, they say it is integral to building their brand. But then they don't sponsor sailing do they, just Rugby, Cricket and Golf. Popular sports. I wonder why sailing isn't deemed so popular, maybe we just don't do well enough as a nation :-)

Not quite the whole picture is it. RBS are dropping sports sponsorship as quickly as they legally can, the owners (That's us taxpayers.)don't quite agree with the view of a devalued, replaced and exposed egotistical management.

Surely you mean U.K tax payers, not U.S tax payers :-) or maybe not?

Sponsorship in sailing is primarily quite small and is usually a case of personnal contact and understanding the responsibility that both parties have to the venture when entering into the contract, whether verbal or written.
If you give the right exposure, often the sponsor, if in a position to continue may look on the situation favourably.
Incidentially Fat Face are going back to specialist events and grass roots rather than class driven and that is great as more diversified groups of people will benefit. 
BFN

I mean us not US taxpayers it is the British who own Lloyds/HBOS & RBS and Northern Rock of course.

us was meant to be inclusive!

I have a 200 as well as a Merlin, so will have to run this particular gauntlet ... I've often wondered whether it's good to stick vinyl onto expensive hi-tec sails in the first place. 

A few years back during a damp championships in Scotland, I failed to get sail stickers to stay on despite sitting on them in human iron mode (perhaps that should be iron man?).

Hull stickers respond well to treatment advised, and pale gelcoat at least shows no colour difference. I imagine the real problem is no man will admit to owning a hair dryer!

Douglas,

I suspect that its not the hairdryer that is the problems, its the 200.............

Douglas,

I don't suppose I can convince you double your 200 up to a 400?  I have one that has been garaged stored for the last year while we sail the Merlin :-)  Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be selling quickly at the moment - maybe I will have to get it out again!

Tongue in cheek, but I think you'll find the British Govnmt are the majority share holders, us the tax payers don't own it we just pay for it.