RYA Planning and Environment Officer

[Nick]

Richard Hill, RYA Planning and Environment Officer, thinks there should be no sailing on the Iberian coastline between May and October.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/435540734 ... 610658171/

Perhaps we should ask the RYA why they are using our membership fees to pay a guy who is so patently anti-yacht?

[Gardenshed]

what does RYA stand for: Restrict Yachting Amateurs?

They appear to be a training company with a performance sailing (olympic) division and not much else

[claymore]

Nicodemus
It is gratifying to note that your displays of 'awkward head' are not restricted to TOP and here...

[wully]

Fuxitt got to do with Mr RYA what goes on in Iberia?

His time would be better spend trumpeting how spiffing sailing in the Solent is and ironing his blazer and pink trousers.

[Burst Boiler]

Buncha Fandans

[Nick]

Nicodemus
It is gratifying to note that your displays of 'awkward head' are not restricted to TOP and here...

. . . and equally gratifying to note that you ahve not ruined a perfect record by posting anything relevant to the thread

[Nick]

Nicodemus
It is gratifying to note that your displays of 'awkward head' are not restricted to TOP and here...

. . . and equally gratifying to note that you have not ruined a perfect record by posting anything relevant to the thread

[wully]

So good it’s posted twice

[claymore]

Shirley - the whole fekkin thread is irrelevant?

[wully]

Don’t call him Shirley, folk will get the wrong idea.

[Nick]

Shirley - the whole fekkin thread is irrelevant?

Yes, irrelevant to you possibly.

But much the same could be said of 99% of human life and activity.

Your point is, caller?

[claymore]

I'm always amazed at how brave keyboard warriors can be, sat safely at home....

[Nick]

I'm always amazed at how brave keyboard warriors can be, sat safely at home....

Here's a tip - if you find a thread irrelevant why not just ignore it?

[BlowingOldBoots]

Interesting thread responses. The Facebook page would be hilarious if it wasn't so disturbing. How quick trivial matters can rouse emotions and responses that seek to create divisions and control the message. A method that history shows (time and again) can be exploited with such catastrophic consequences.

At the end of the day the RYA are hobbled, hoisted by their own petard as self appointed guardians of British sailing, but requiring to toe a legal line.

The reality is that the majority of British sailors are not members of this RYA and the majority of sailors being threatened at sea would do what it takes to defend their boats in glorious ignorance of any country's law. However, folks should also judge the RYA based on their overall performance. They have defended our freedoms to enjoy the water more or less free from government interference. Their Olympic campaigns are successful and a credit to the nation, if such things matter to you. The RYA is a racing organization first and foremost, it is why it was founded, it basically influenced, through its connections, the defense of a bunch of self centered, south coast (blazers, pink shirts, red trouser) sailors' interests - which in my view we all benefit from today.

Thinking about my opening paragraph in this thread, without the international laws, the Orcas would probably be extinct, along with many other species, sacrificed on the alter of self righteous entitlement.

“Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.” Douglas Bader

[wully]

Met Douglas Bader years ago in a golf club bar - he was legless....