Dinghy sailing in bigger winds

Martyn H wrote:
> On Sep 30, 11:46 am, martin.sch....RemoveThis@gmail.com (Martin Schöön) wrote:
>> Stephen Page <st....RemoveThis@the-page-family.net> writes:
>>> - their objective currently is indeed sailing round cans. We're doing
>>> the East Zone Championship today, for example.
>> If Cadet sailors are a friendly crowd there should be a lot of advice
>> to be found during a regatta weekend.
>>
> don't know aobut the cadet class, but the optimist has a horrendous
> reputation ( don't know if it is deserved , havign missed out that bit
> of youth sailing due to not starting sailling until 12 and not
> startign racing seriously unti l14 or so ) for competitive parents and
> for people misleading others
>

I remember that Cadets suffer a bit of that. Hopefully
the motivation to get good results for the club (at open
meetings etc.) will mean the best in the club will help the
"beginners" - until you start challenging them too closely for
their liking.
Stephen's sons are young, a typical cadet crew is an 18
year old with a 12 year old crew, perhaps his older son would
be interested to crew for someone more experienced (from their
club) at a single event, like an open meeting, to learn a few
tricks - and be a pretty good crew because he knows many of
the demands of helming.

Robert