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    Posted: 26 Jun 07 at 8:12pm

I think I know who you are...your around on saturdays now and again?

I definitly know your boat anyway, thanks so much for the offer. I am currently trying to make the owner of the pink one let me have a go on his, and if i can talk sense into him may buy it once he has his new laser, assuming that I can sail the thing.

I have been considering moving clubs, but as I'm off to uni next year it seems a little pointless, I also have a lot of friends at sycsa at the moment, and its really close and convenient. The unis Im applying to are all good for sailing, so that should give me more oppetunity to sail faster boats.

I will definitly ask around about sharing a cherub or something, thats a good idea.

Thanks again, I will probably see you around at some point.
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I'm one of Contender sailors at Durleigh - the dark blue hull not the "pink" one, if you want to have a go just ask - a force 2 or 3 would be ideal for a first go, at your weight it could be a bit of handful in much more until you get used to it.

Durleigh is on the small side for a trapeze boat but due to the shape of the reservoir and the prevailing wind we normally get some good relatively long upwind and good downwind legs. The club has a lower PY limit of 926 at present although the committee have just approved one member to sail an International Canoe (the non asymmetric version), so that will be interesting to watch if he ever buys one.

The most sensible option would be to go down the Laser Radial / Europe type route although I've always thought a (low rider) Moth would go well at the club as well as being a more exciting alternative.

As you say there aren't too many crewing opportunities at the club as people either sail single handers or already have regular crews, but if you're after two handed sailing why not see if you could go halves on say an older Cherub or something similar with another sailor in the club. There's quite a few others around your age who could well be interested in doing that.

In the long run, if you're dead set on moving to a much faster class then you'll probably need to move clubs to a larger water. The obvious choices are Bristol Corinthian at Axbridge or Chew Valley in the local area.
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Ok, no worries. I'm sure something else will crop up. Good crews are worth their weight in gold these days!
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Well I have spoken to my parents and they say no . Mainly because they can't be bothered to drive me, and they dont know what a cherub is anyway. I'm also supposed to be going to plymouth on the 27th, and they think that i cant manage 2 weeks sailing in one go.

If you ever want crew in the future though, I would love to. Once i can drive, I can do what i want and my parents cant stop me  And i dont mind being shouted at and blamed for other peoples mistakes, I get that a lot. But you may get an earful back, depending on my mood at the time.

Thanks for the offer though, and Im really sorry (and cross) that i cant make it this time.

 
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Regarding experience, I'm not really the type of person to take racing overly seriously. I'm out there to have a blast. And I'm sure they'll always be someone to race against, even if it's not the front of the fleet. So whether or not your an Olympic class crew is neither here nor there.  But, I do shout alot. Mostly because I've done something wrong and need to blame someone else. So you;d have to be able to not take that personally. Ask Hobbo, he's my regular crew.

As long as you're comfortable trapezing and handling a kite, you'll be just fine!

The nationals are in Weymouth, not far from Somerset in the scale of things.



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I would love to, but whether or not i can depends on how well i can negotiate with the parents.

Where abouts are they?

Also, are you sure you want someone with as little experience as me crewing for you in the nationals?

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Originally posted by casi

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Where do you live? You sound like good weight to be a Cherub crew!

I live in somerset. Would kill to crew a cherub. Or anything better than a topaz to be honest. The problem at my club is that noone ever seems to need crew

Are you free 21st-27th July?

Do you want to sail at the Cherub nationals?
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Originally posted by Hobbo

Originally posted by Noah

A trap on a Solution and anyone could sail one. What I want is weight equalisation or a trap on a Phant, so I can go play with the big boys...


There is weight equalisation in the Phantoms - it's called the Pie shop.

I have a quetion for you. Who goes to the pie shop more often, a Finn or  Phantom helm or a Star crew?

We need Big Wave Dave to answer this question

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Originally posted by Noah

A trap on a Solution and anyone could sail one. What I want is weight equalisation or a trap on a Phant, so I can go play with the big boys...


There is weight equalisation in the Phantoms - it's called the Pie shop.
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A trap on a Solution and anyone could sail one. What I want is weight equalisation or a trap on a Phant, so I can go play with the big boys...
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