Hi Chris and All,

My suggestions are -

Thursday - Briefing should be at 10am, then start the freestyle asap, say
10.30 on Thu for a couple of hours. Latecomers can go at the end or on
Friday. Then run the slalom in the afternoon.

Friday - Briefing 10am, then complete any unfinished freestyle/slalom from
10.30, then allow time for a lunch break before the marathon.

Sat/Sun - Briefing 9am, then racing between 9.30 and 5.30. Juniors and
beginnners races can be planned according to conditions. Ideally
juniors/beginners race first up until 11.30, then start main fleet at
12.00, two races back to back, then 1 hour lunch break, then another two
races followed by a break, then one final race. This would result in 10
course races over the two days, with 2 discards. Or could just have 1
less race on the Sunday for an earlier finish before the presentation
dinner.

I'd be happy to start the dinner at 7.00. Personally I will not be
driving home on the Sunday night. Not sure about others, but I think that
would be a big ask to drive home late at night after the sailing and
presentation dinner.

I like the sound of the meeting to formalise the class a bit more. This
would be on Saturday night?

Cheers,

Roger.





> Sorry about the formatting problems in the earlier post. Here's
> another try at putting up the nationals times.
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> Thursday 25th Jan - Registration 9 to 11am
> Information session - 12 noon
> Competition (freestyle/slalom) - 1pm to 5.30pm
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> Welcome barbecue/pizza night - 7 pm
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> Friday 26th Jan - Registration for latecomers 9 to 11 am
> Information session - 12 noon
> Competition (including marathon and junior/beginner mini marathon) 1pm
> to 5.30pm
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> '70s beach party (marking 30th nationals since the first in '77) - 7pm
> on the beach.
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> Saturday 27th Jan
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> Competition - 9.00-10.30 (Juniors and Beginners)
> 11am to 5.30 (main fleet)
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> Class meeting - 7 pm
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> Sunday 28th Jan
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> Competition - 9-10.30 (Juniors and Beginners)
> 11 am till 5.30pm (main fleet)
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> Presentation - 7 to midnight?
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> The format for Juniors and Beginners will remain flexible because it
> depends so much on conditions and numbers and standard of entries.
> There's nothing stopping keen Juniors or Beginners sailing with the
> main fleet if they're not getting enough sailing, but it would also be
> good if the rest of them did 90 minutes of racing and then just had
> fun the rest of the day.
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> Chris
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