middle class twits

Lets face it, the majority of sailors are twits.

The vast majority are of course not owners but crew. Given the idea that a 7 man OD I raced on had a pool of 30 you can see it's the tip of the iceberg,

I live in a thin vaneer of adult developed race crew... we never were int he trendy dinghy squad "back then" ..we were always a new face ..we sailed with the 'wrong boats' in our apprenticeship and most often got rides on big fast machines as ballast ( although personally I was very lucky and got real jobs!!)

We're too skint or mortgaged to own our own little fifedom and get our name in lights yet, but too good to just sail with any old cruiser-racer tosser who rants about handicap and 33% jib depth while coming 2nd last.

so there we sit and we put up with the loud "gamma" types who seem to either be part of the scenery at regattas or mix right in. We maybe go to our berths a little earlier than we used to and we drinka littel less and we see the hangovers and smell the still-drunk of the 5 am revellers on board who pretend/know they can "do it" .

Sailing clubs are dreadful little collectioons of fifedoms and beuarocratic ego. All those people who failed in business life but have a wee hitler ( Frank The Wank!) are there, while all those 'natural born leaders' who are chiefs arlready just find another little place to road roller. They know how to wield power , persuade and divide and conquer.

I've made some of my best mates through sailing, had one or two duff rides and generally let out my natural competivie instinct and communication skills but I feel that if I had a teltn in another sport that I would be much better recieved. Rugby for instance?

when I say recievedvd I mean peopel actually see who I am and maybe even show some respect or camradery.

This is why IRC has become the glory box. It's the reserve of middle class twits with money and twits for crews. It is the emperors new clothes...it sucks as a racing form...you sail in your own wind and when you actually meet a boat you just duck it...mark roundings are like an italien roundabout with the different perfomrnace of boats spurting them out at all angles"!

One design is reaching an en , yet to be reborn when it gets osme new credence from somewhere- where? the raft of glamour kids from the squads? they are soon bought off with flights, hotesl, dinners and free sialing gear from the big IRC boats if they never really made it as pro-sailors in the first place,

and then I wonder why I get along better with plumbers and joiners and fireman!