Tom Anderson wrote:
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 wrote:

The draft plan is now available at

http://www.london2012.com/en/ourvisi...sport+Plan.htm.

Weymouth? Why on earth are they having the sailing at Weymouth?

I was puzzled by that too, but then I haven't dinghied in years.

Apparently it's an excuse to do up the National Sailing Academy the
http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/av...00/5075766.htm

and not simply because Heathrow-Woking-Weymouth lets the competitors
avoid the transport nightmare that London will become.

No idea what a "dual-aspect slipway" is (water at both ends?).

....
Bah. It's probably because it's too hard for all these continentals,
raised on the tideless Med.

What's wrong with the Welsh Harp - the Firefly has an Olympic pedigree,
after all!

Henry