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We've now added the ability for you to review dinghies. You don't have to signup - just go along to a dinghy class page you like, and fill in a review at the bottom!
We'd like to get everyone else involved more, and this is a pretty easy way of doing it. Boats are such a subjective thing - one person may like a boat for one reason, and someone else hate it for another reason.
Have you ever searched around the internet looking for reviews on a dinghy before you bought it? We have, and didn't find much.
So, if you have some strong feelings on a boat, head over to the dinghy classes, find the boat you want to review, and type in a few words. You can make it as long or as short as you like.
It's all up and live now, but we'll be tweaking it over the next few days to make it easier and look better to use.
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After several weeks of hard work, we're pleased to reveal our new look front page, with a flashier design and more information straight at your fingertips.
It's taken a little time to work out the balance, but you can now see more on the front page; we've split out any articles about the site or just things in general into this new "Caution Water Blog", added up information on hot topics in the forum, so you can quickly see some of the things we're talking about, and put a new visual navigation of polaroids across the top, to highlight some newer areas of the site, such as the forum and our galleries.
We've also expanded our "Coming Soon" part, and there are more changes on the way, including functionality to allow you to review dinghies, and give your thoughts on various different boats, to allow our readers to interact and contribute to the site.
Of course if you wish to contribute in any other way, we are willing to publish and credit guest articles; we already have one up on reshaping a centreboard, and would love to publish some more.
From us - we''ll later be publishing our article on repainting a boat (the Laser 2), shortly followed by the work we did on the spars and standing rigging. Over the winter we're going to hopefully get started on a series of articles on racing, some shorter articles on Blocks and Ratio/Purchase systems, and enlighten you all with some of our newly gained knowledge from Greece, including how to rig and use assymmetric spinnakers. In all, a pretty exciting few months ahead!
As always, if you have any questions or requests, Contact Us.
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and we have to thoroughly recommend the Neilson resort at Porto Heli, in South Greece.
The staff are fantastic, the kit is brilliant and the hotel is quite simply the finest we have stayed in. We did have some great company for the week in the other guests, after all many of us were there with a common interest, sailing!
Flying out from Heathrow on Saturday morning in a nippy 4°C, we landed in Athens which was a rather more kind 25°C. After a twisty coach trip in the dark over the mountains, Sunday dawned with a tad too much wind (Force 6). They wouldn't let any boats out on the morning, and in the afternoon we got to prove our mettle in reefed Picos in 3 ft chop, which was interesting.
The rest of the week saw lighter conditions (until Friday), and we not only had a fantastic holiday, but also managed to squeeze in a windsurfing taster, some rest and relaxation time by the pool, and Start Racing and Sailing with Spinnakers qualifications.
The kit they have out there is brilliant - from a whole fleet of Picos (about 27), to Lasers (14), RS200s, RS400s, an RS500, Laser Stratos, RS Feva and Dart 16s, and that's just what we sailed in the week! They also have Laser 2000s, Laser 4000s, a couple of 29ers and a twin trapeze RS800 all of which we'll have to go back to sail because we couldn't fit it all in in a week.
So, thanks to Nielson, over the winter you can expect to see Symmetrical and Asymmetrical spinnaker articles, Start Racing articles and Trapeze and other high performance sailing articles appearing on here!
Stay tuned, we'll add some photos later this week.
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