BlackPig
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LWL is a better indicator of seaworthiness than LOA. This is the response from the RYA when I asked them why they changed the yachtmaster length rules.
LWL is a better indicator of seaworthiness than LOA
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PabloPicasso
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Why, what are the rules now?
oldbilbo
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It's their ball....
The RYA owes any claim to significance, legitimacy, prestige, etc on the willing, voluntary and unquestioning acceptance of their diktats by people like us - boaty users. It has NO statutory position whatsoever, and its claim to represent and regulate all boaty activities is a modern nonsense.
That statement about seaworthiness is a 'marketing position' made by marketing pros - such as the lady who currently heads up that organisation. It needs to be said and said again - the RYA is a business.
It has proved willing to descend to questionable tactics to protect its brands - such as the infamous spying on sea school principals attending a briefing meeting with a would-be competitor organisation, with the inference that 'We know who you are; your business could suffer if you consider going down that road and offer a parallel training setup outside our control."
One needs to ask oneself - "What experience of seaworthiness do the apparatchiks at RYA Towers have themselves, which might inform such a point of view?"
IMHO, the RYA Yachtmaster Scheme has degenerated into a gap-year programme for 'Fast Tracking' youngsters, focussed on providing the sailing schools with a supply of paying customers..... a far cry from the intentions of the original scheme. They're unwilling to admit it, but they now have little interest in would-be candidates who are impecunious or who prefer to 'go it alone' without hiring sea school boats.
The RYA owes any claim to significance, legitimacy, prestige, etc on the willing, voluntary and unquestioning acceptance of their diktats by people like us - boaty users. It has NO statutory position whatsoever, and its claim to represent and regulate all boaty activities is a modern nonsense.
That statement about seaworthiness is a 'marketing position' made by marketing pros - such as the lady who currently heads up that organisation. It needs to be said and said again - the RYA is a business.
It has proved willing to descend to questionable tactics to protect its brands - such as the infamous spying on sea school principals attending a briefing meeting with a would-be competitor organisation, with the inference that 'We know who you are; your business could suffer if you consider going down that road and offer a parallel training setup outside our control."
One needs to ask oneself - "What experience of seaworthiness do the apparatchiks at RYA Towers have themselves, which might inform such a point of view?"
IMHO, the RYA Yachtmaster Scheme has degenerated into a gap-year programme for 'Fast Tracking' youngsters, focussed on providing the sailing schools with a supply of paying customers..... a far cry from the intentions of the original scheme. They're unwilling to admit it, but they now have little interest in would-be candidates who are impecunious or who prefer to 'go it alone' without hiring sea school boats.