2383
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I am thinking of doing the two handed RTYC Triangle Race next June (http://www.royaltorbayyc.org.uk/triangle/triangle.htm) Any advice from anyone who has done it in previous years?
Royal Torbay Triangle Race
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bobgoode
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In an Etap 21....!!!!
jamesjermain
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Go for it!
Its huge fun, the sailing can be quite challenging and the racing as competitive as you want to make it - the boys at the front are quite serious, those at the back enjoy the ride. It cqan all be accomplished in a fortnight. The only really serious thing is the partying which is intensive and prolonged.
People have competed in just about every sort of boat from stripped out quarter tonners, and Sadler Barracudas to twin engined Trident Warriors, classic 8m CRs, every conceivable cruiser-racer from the seventies, eighties and nineties and many pure cruisers such as the Westerly Discus, Moody 372 and venerable Moody 39.
This year the race, formerly the Yachting Monthly Triangle, which I had some part in inventing back in 1984, has a new stop-over in Kinsale, gastro-capital of Ireland and all round good port.
The original purposes of the event were twofold: first to act as a nursery slope for events like the Round Britain and Ireland Race, AZAB and OSTAR, but compressed to the length of an annual holiday, and second to encourage owners of family cruisers a chance to broaden their cruising horizons in good company and bring their boats up to a sensible offshore safety spec. It still fulfills both roles.
Its huge fun, the sailing can be quite challenging and the racing as competitive as you want to make it - the boys at the front are quite serious, those at the back enjoy the ride. It cqan all be accomplished in a fortnight. The only really serious thing is the partying which is intensive and prolonged.
People have competed in just about every sort of boat from stripped out quarter tonners, and Sadler Barracudas to twin engined Trident Warriors, classic 8m CRs, every conceivable cruiser-racer from the seventies, eighties and nineties and many pure cruisers such as the Westerly Discus, Moody 372 and venerable Moody 39.
This year the race, formerly the Yachting Monthly Triangle, which I had some part in inventing back in 1984, has a new stop-over in Kinsale, gastro-capital of Ireland and all round good port.
The original purposes of the event were twofold: first to act as a nursery slope for events like the Round Britain and Ireland Race, AZAB and OSTAR, but compressed to the length of an annual holiday, and second to encourage owners of family cruisers a chance to broaden their cruising horizons in good company and bring their boats up to a sensible offshore safety spec. It still fulfills both roles.
2383
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I must update my profile...
Its grown by 11ft (the boat)
Its grown by 11ft (the boat)
AIDY
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it must be due to all the excitement of the forum /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
roycharles
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A great event - go for it.
James forgot to mention the Cobra 1050 in his list of competing boats!
James forgot to mention the Cobra 1050 in his list of competing boats!
R32Stbrigid
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I have done it. Great fun, superb. Advice given to me was that you needed a healthy liver!
doris
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I've done the last 5 and will be out next June. Great fun both from a sailing point of view and for the stopovers. You will meet lots of great peeps and have a mega fortnight! Get that form in.
2383
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All sounds like what I'm after. Better apply asap!
