Nailly

The Anatomy Of A Nailly

A nailly is when a number of fully grown adults drive around the countryside in the hope of finding little jars of nails. Well that is the basis of a nailly but it involves a little more than this brief but accurate description.

A nailly is a navigational scatter rally, this means that it is an event based on the Ordnance Survey landranger series of maps, with clues to the nails locations given as standard longitude and latitude references or variations on that theme.

It is an event that can be contested in any standard road vehicle from a Rolls Royce to a Reliant Robin, although we have never seen either compete yet. The idea of the event is to encourage the skills of a driver navigator team rather than the performance capabilities of the man behind the wheel.

The event normally starts in a car park or lay-by that will accommodate the 10 to 20 cars participating. You will normally arrive at the start by 7.30p.m. for the winter series & 8.30 for the summer series to sign on where you will sign an indemnification form and pay your entry fee. £5.00 per crew plus £1.00 for each passenger.

At 8.00p.m. you will receive the clues, there are 16 clues coming in many shapes and forms. Four main groups, Red 6",Blue 5", Green 4" and Yellow 3", each group has four plots, you may visit 75% of these, i.e. 12 out of the 16 in any order and any colour, collecting one nail from each jar plus a bonus nail this is worth 12". The longer the nail the more difficult the clue to crack.

The event runs for three hours, the crews returning with the greater amount of inches are deemed the winners, those crews not back at the finish time. will have 1" deducted from their score for each minute late up to 10 minutes after which time they will be excluded.

The event usually runs for approximately 90 miles, you will require a map or maps, pencil, rubber, roamer, compass, protractor, tracing paper, torch and sometimes wellies.

Excellent fun ask any competitor.