Box and Cox open Meeting

Open meetings generally have three meetings a day, based on a notional hour race,  Supposing the RO scheduled FOUR meetings a day based on 45 min races.Two  singlehanders could then travel as a pair with just one boat and car and do two races each, or the entry could be made on a club basis with the stronger sailor doing three races, and the weaker one,or they could toss for it.

This could have huge benefits in personal energy saved, keeping older sailors still interested in doing a circuit going a bit longer, saving a lot of fuel obviously!!!! The setup in the average Topper or Laser or Streaker should not pose too many problems to someone new to that boat. RIgging and de-rigging would be much quicker.  Less parking space would be required at the host club and it would be a way of introducing new sailors to a club circuit.

What do you think?

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Do what we do for OK open meetings.

One on a trailer on the back and one on the roof.

Or for european events I know some people travel with a double stacker and a boat on the roof aswell! 3 people, 3 boats, one car. saves feul costs and ferry costs.

The first Vareo open meeting of the season (and traditionally one of the better supported ones) was held just before Easter on one day, when the other meetings in the year tend to be 2-day events.

We arranged for 4 races in the day, two back-to-back, then a break for lunch, repairs, loo break etc, before the last 2 back-to-back. It worked well, and gave everyone some great racing. It does mean the races are about 45 mins, rather than an hour: but when you have an Asymmetric up, it is as hard work upwind as it is down! so people were very pleased to finish after 45 mins and have a 5 minute break before the next one.