What to do in the Winter

What a hero !

Our dinghy park closes begin Dec untill end March and the slip gets buried in 2 foot deep debris from winter storms , But !!!

and I'm a six foot two 18 stone chiken livered woose in aw of fellow heroic dudes !!!!!

Loosing the thread !

Had promised to stay under my rock , but !

What a bunch of chicken wimps .

Or is it that up north we are so used to the cold we don't care .

Firstly our group of 25 plus rc laser sailer ALL are practioners of the "real thing" , Cat sailors , skiff sailers ,mono /two handed dinghies , laser sailers , sportsboat sailors , drunken and every other type of competitive sailors out there.

During the winters in Scotland winter full size sailing seems to be the domain of Junior RYA squads etc whilst us parents ashamed at the nippers sailing in sub zero winter gales make do with excercising the digits on a transmitter.

When racing one design boats in double figures over courses short enough to throw your granny over you don't have time to think about getting cold , anyway you can dress up for it !,our races are held back to back and a 20 secs countdown keeps things fast n furious, racing is kept fun , penalties and insults are traded, we've had up to 15 races in our 2hr period for series racing and series race every fortnight , the less henpecked sail every weekend .

We don't stop for wind ,rain,hail or snow . This year most of the fleet have bought renegade John Tushingham D rig storm sails so that racing will be a bit more fluid in the 40 knot howlers we expect doon by the sea at Rhu Marina.

Fleets are popping up all over the country as even more bored "Real thing" sailors are buying rc lasers for winter racing .

Sniff one out and have a look ,  but , beware

It's highly CONTAGEOUS !!!!!