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Cherub Chat => Sailing Stories => Topic started by: Stuberry on February 27, 2013, 11:36:51 AM

Title: Nationals Reports
Post by: Stuberry on February 27, 2013, 11:36:51 AM

There used to be a page on the website showing all the nationals reports from the beggining of time. I can't seem to find it, did it get lost in the last big crash?

Title: Re: Nationals Reports
Post by: Neil C. on February 27, 2013, 12:12:07 PM

If you Google "uk Cherub collection Nationals reports" or something similar you can still find it. But you're right, the website link seems to have vanished. It used to be that when you clicked on "History" in the left hand column this produced a drop-down with some more history options, but this is the bit that didn't re-appear after the last crash. Absolutely no criticism of Phil intended. I don't envy him the job of webmaster. 

Title: Re: Nationals Reports
Post by: Stuberry on February 27, 2013, 01:18:59 PM

Cheers Neil, I found it using Google and the address is here:

http://www.uk-cherub.org/doku.php/history/nationals_reports (http://www.uk-cherub.org/doku.php/history/nationals_reports)

It's interesting looking back at old results and seeing names I recognise.

For instance, looking at the 1974 nats at Harwich, they were won by a boat called Peanuts. At the 2006 nationals in Largo a young lady and her dad turned up with a beautiful looking and very competently sailed Peanuts!

Also at the same Harwich nationals, placed 3rd was a boat called Tachyon that I think features in Nigel's history. As it's sailed by Chris Forman himself, maybe that was the boats first nationals!

And sailing Tachyon was a bloke called Nick Mason who I had a very interesting chat with at the 2011 nationals in Lee.

Title: Re: Nationals Reports
Post by: Phil Alderson on February 27, 2013, 01:43:06 PM

The menu list in the side bar used to change when you went into a different section, however after the last blow up and revision it has stopped doing this.
The other problem we have is that a lot of the older reports were html files that were linked to from the page, rather than being wiki pages. None of these links now work, however we still do have the pages, just not online. The best solution would be to transcribe them across to the wiki, however it is a matter of finding time.

Title: Re: Nationals Reports
Post by: Torchy on March 01, 2013, 02:51:10 PM

Thanks for finding the report Stu. I looked at them lots before buying Loco - nice to see Tachyon's history there