H&SSC potentially fatal error.

In what can only be described as a total lack of judgement at a recent AGM, members of H&SSC have voted me as their commodore for reasons I can only guess as either

a)My stunning good looks, wit, banter, extreme sailing skill, experience and general charismatic appeal which will look even more stunning in the new Commodore uniform I'm having designed based on South American Dictators I've admired in the past.

b)Nobody else would do it.

So, clearly I'm going to need help in seizing the opportunity this now affords to get some decent race start kit in the race box, I've seen these external light display systems, I think it might have been Starcross or somewhere similar, so my question, is there a turnkey system or is it something fashioned by individual clubs and without go looking, I assume there are prescriptions for light sequences in the rules.

Oh and there's no need for any of you to salute or call me sir or anything, I'm going to try not to let my new status affect me (Other than the piping on deck, commodores parking place, free commodore alcohol at the club bar, rules that I'll be putting in place in due course.)

Edited by iGRF - 20 Nov 13 at 12:22pm

c) Better inside [urinat]ing out than outside p......

d) Let's see how *he* likes it!

Just when we wondered how we were going to entertain ourselves over the cold winter months, along comes a whole new comedy to keep us glued to the keyboard.

Maybe I'll keep the old plastic Minisail till then, so I can slide down the beach in it...

Richard Russell does a timing system to control lights, and hooter.
Add that to your budget.
Just remember that as a flag officer you do 3 times as much work as people realise and get no thanks for most of it.