Category Archives: Fleets

Summary of All Those Club Support Package Ideas…!

Posted on November 18, 2011 by

We have earlier written about our ideas for a Club Support Package in the general areas of :- – Club Training – Practical Help – Fleet Management Our last idea concerns the Online Environment –  the BIFFA website itself. Now, … Continue reading →

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Club Support Package – Datchet Idea 10 …!!

Posted on November 11, 2011 by

The second half of our Datchet ideas on helping with Fleet Management looks like this. All Club Fleets want to look great for their Open Meetings. At the present, BIFFA has a flags and banners kit available for BIFFA regional … Continue reading →

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Starting a Falmouth Fleet…..

Posted on November 10, 2011 by

We’ve all heard by now the great success stories of starting FF Fleets as Classic, or Classic/Silver Fleets….. As you may have read on the blog recently, the local members are going to try the same trick at Falmouth.  The … Continue reading →

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Club Support Package – Datchet Idea 9….

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

The Datchet Club also wants to make some suggestions about  helping Clubs with a topic we can loosely call “Fleet Management” – perhaps by creating a “Fleet Management Handbook” where all the best “recipes” and best-of-breed practices can be documented … Continue reading →

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Club Support Package – Datchet Ideas 7 and 8…!!

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

These are the third and final ideas we have at Datchet about the Practical Help our Association might give as part of a support package to Club Fleets. Our third idea in this category regards Classic and Silver members. We … Continue reading →

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More on Classic/Silver/Open Combined Racing…..

Posted on November 5, 2011 by

Well you know this is a good discussion but what I don’t understand is why is there any reluctance to start old and new boats on the same line? I hear this line a lot and I have to say … Continue reading →

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Club Support Package – Datchet Idea 6…!!

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

We have another idea to go in the Practical Support part of the Club Support Package. This idea comes from our Vice Captain John Hanson and is on the subject of Fleet Insurance.  We’d have to take a look at … Continue reading →

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Club Support Package – Datchet Idea 5…!!

Posted on November 3, 2011 by

The second set of ideas we have at our Club for a Club Support package revolve around “Practical Help”…. Our first idea in this category is that the Association works with a small number of Chandlers to visit a fleet … Continue reading →

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Club Support Package – Datchet Idea 4….!!

Posted on November 1, 2011 by

Our fourth idea, and last under the heading of training, for a potential BIFFA support package for Clubs is this – “Connect to a Champion”… Our idea goes like this…  If you are a qualifying Fleet for FFI Status (at … Continue reading →

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Club Fleet Support Package – Datchet Idea 3 !!….

Posted on October 30, 2011 by

Our third idea in the area of Club Training is to provide materials to paid up fleets to help the average Club Sailor improve their compass work. I went to a workshop like this in our Dragon Fleet at Medway. … Continue reading →

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Regenerating Our Fleets – An Addition to the Draycote Guide….

Posted on October 28, 2011 by

The excellent guide to re-building the fireball class at Draycote, published in this blog about two weeks ago, was the bible for our efforts at Datchet to re-build the ffs.    The version we used has been updated and one item … Continue reading →

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