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Raceboard and Formula Nationals at RQYS Jan 20th to 24th
A little teaser of what to expect
Looks awesome! Event website open for entry: www.revolutionise.com.au/rqys/events/53257/
Looks great. Used to love sailing my race board.
Should we be combining classes these days and just having one windsurfer nationals? We all like the same sport after all.
If enough fleet numbers can separate the 'classes' and have raceboard, LT and formula/foil.
Appreciate there are issues and I'm probably dreaming but would still love to race at one event.
At my local club we share a start line with paper tiger cats and the course with both them and F18 cats. Racing gets tricky at times but we manage and makes for some funny banter over beers after racing.
Last Tas windsurfer states had 22 LT's/hybrid course boards and about 8 x 29ers sharing a tiny windward/leeward course.
If we split fleets in Hobart we'd have about 5-15 x LTs, 3-5 course boards, 3-5 foil and maybe a formula. Sounds like too many race classes??
Hope you get a good turnout and some juniors. I wonder if RB and formula numbers will contract further in future.
Love the raceboard but LT might eat into its already limited numbers.
On the contrary, the number of Raceboards on the start line for our club racing at RQYS has doubled this year, mainly thanks to youth graduating from Techno, and they are giving us old blokes a run for our money as shown in the photos above 
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Haven't seen any LTs racing at RQYS this season. saw one last season but it was doing the shorter Opti course because they are much slower.
Windsurfing classes aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, they can provide the opportunity to do more racing, attend more events and have more fun, which is what it's all about 
Yep it's great to see you had 10 entrants for the race board class at sail Brisbane , keep up the good work of promoting your class .
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Saw RSX and maybe Techno in footage?
Who gets around the course faster - them or the RB?
Mmm.
Thought an RSX might beat a RB in a planing weather. Just shows that RB pretty efficient on most conditions
I'm going to sail my Mistral Prodigy/8m against the LT's and paper tiger cats soon. Guessing I'll be closer to PT's if over say 15knots.
PTs can do 3 laps to LT's 2.
Ah! Thanks, my bad, saw the date on the flyer but now found the schedule on the NOR. Best wishes for a great regatta.
Looks like they are updating results live
www.sailwave.com/results/2020RaceboardNationals.htm
Dropped in for a look today, was great to see a good fleet. IMHO Fewer Severne sails than before and more of the newer RB specific sails with tighter leeches up top mostly set on Slake masts and carbon booms. Boards may as well be OD Starboard Phantoms except for one F2 World Cup that I was unable to steal. Watched the first race through binocs and was very impressed to see how powered up the first few were heading dead downwind. Gobsmacked at how quick these guys can take the bottom mark, could have been on foils. Maybe the physio and doc will let me go back with the PanAm one day....
