Olympic Sailing Venue unveiled

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Well this took me by suprise. I suppose it was inevitable that Seb would want something to be in his home city.

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Sheffield has been unveiled as the suprise new venue for sailing at the 2012 Olympics. The thirty eight thousand seat stadium at Hillsborugh, normally home of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club, has completed the installation of a new facility which allows the playing area to be flooded and thus the sailing will now be hosted where spectators can watch at close quarters and in comfort. Said Olympics organiser Lord Coe, who is from Sheffield, "this is a very exciting development and an opportunity to bring a fringe sport like sailing, into an environment where spectators can get close to the action and really see what is going on" he continued "it has always been our policy to take events outside of London. Originally the sailing was to be in Weymouth but we are sure the move to the North will be popular". 2004 Olympic hero Shirley Robertson shrugged off concerns about the lack of wind in an enclosed arena "it's the same for all the boats, at the end of the day, it is down to who handles the conditions better, whatever those conditions may be

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Host club is rumoured to be "The Royal Dirty Northern Barstuards Yacht Club"

Saw one of them at the Solo open at Rutland last week..

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I have to say, when I saw this picture, I started costing up having Merit lifteed and hauled to Sheffield so that I could sail around the pitch, but the water would have drained before I could get there.
 

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Host club is rumoured to be "The Royal Dirty Northern Barstuards Yacht Club"



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I thought it was the Sheffield Watersports and Fettling Club.

Must admit, I woke up on Monday morning to find everywhere was flooded and I was surrounded by water. Then I remembered that I slept on the boat Sunday night in the marina. Phew!
 

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The RDNBYC..does actually exist...its a long story, but its secret base is quite possibly Guy Winders boat building yard in Keighley. Guys racing Solos/Fireballs/Merlins are superb and always have been.

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The Sheffield lads will be at an advantage. They will know they can use a bit more centreboard at the Kop end where the water is deepest.

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IIRC that wall is about three feet high, so if there is that kind of depth at the Leppings Lane shallow End, then they'll be fine.
 
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