Slightly different tack than the other thread that got closed.
We had our first race of our Fall Series Saturday and had a non racer mixing it up with the race fleet. He was being a bit of a jerk about it. Hanging around marks and forcing racers to avoid him to round the mark, sailing across the course in such a way as to be "stand on" and forcing other boats to give way to him. or sailing up on a slower boat and deliberately stealing their wind. These really looked like deliberate acts and not a case of "just wandered into a race course". He's on a fairly well found 31 footer and seems to know how to sail it well. Shame he doesn't seem to want to play nice, his boat could be a contender with our club races.
The guy is a recent arrival at the marina and has expressed disdain/contempt at invitations to join the sailing club and participate in our regular races.
I was on the committee boat and he was docked and gone by the time we got the marks picked up and everything put away so I didn't get a chance to talk to him.
I'm going to bring it up with our club Commodore and see if the two of us can try a gentle approach to see if we can get the guy to join the club and actually race with us.
I don't really think there is a hell of a lot we can do about it unless he becomes an actual hazard or causes an incident.
What goes around comes around but it's frustrating.
We had our first race of our Fall Series Saturday and had a non racer mixing it up with the race fleet. He was being a bit of a jerk about it. Hanging around marks and forcing racers to avoid him to round the mark, sailing across the course in such a way as to be "stand on" and forcing other boats to give way to him. or sailing up on a slower boat and deliberately stealing their wind. These really looked like deliberate acts and not a case of "just wandered into a race course". He's on a fairly well found 31 footer and seems to know how to sail it well. Shame he doesn't seem to want to play nice, his boat could be a contender with our club races.
The guy is a recent arrival at the marina and has expressed disdain/contempt at invitations to join the sailing club and participate in our regular races.
I was on the committee boat and he was docked and gone by the time we got the marks picked up and everything put away so I didn't get a chance to talk to him.
I'm going to bring it up with our club Commodore and see if the two of us can try a gentle approach to see if we can get the guy to join the club and actually race with us.
I don't really think there is a hell of a lot we can do about it unless he becomes an actual hazard or causes an incident.
What goes around comes around but it's frustrating.