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rs600676 
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 Topic: Stevie NicksPosted: 05 Feb 12 at 11:52am |
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great days sailing shame i missed the first race due to some git nicking my extension lead for me trailer board and the van running out of fuels on and my van not starting grrrrr
but good one race !! top job pitsford |
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chrisg
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Posted: 04 Feb 12 at 2:09pm |
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A few photos from last weekend that my wife took while walking round the lake (obviously not as good as the ones from the water are):
 STN_0020 by chrisgandy2001, on Flickr  STN_0003 by chrisgandy2001, on Flickr  STN_0005 by chrisgandy2001, on Flickr The rest are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/98882529@N00/sets/72157629168993629/ |
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Ruscoe
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Posted: 31 Jan 12 at 10:44am |
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Yes you can, but not as well as a 400. As Charlie says this is the first time we have sailed in that lighter wind. So finding the groove roll tacking takes time roll to much and you can dip a wing which is slow. I would say give chandler so time in the boat he would be fairly quick in those conditions but as you know its all about time in the boat. I think rob is right Chris with that rig in those conditions on home water is going to be very hard to beat. If it were slightly windier so people were hiking at least 50% of the time it would be a different story. But let's not take anything away from Chris he is a quality yacht we who sailed better.
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rogue
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Posted: 31 Jan 12 at 9:48am |
can you not roll tack a D-One (serious question?) with that much freeboard, I'd have thought roll tacking was one of its advantages over skiffier asymmetrics?
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Roger
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Posted: 30 Jan 12 at 7:31pm |
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Global Warmup positions after 3 events.
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Ruscoe
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Posted: 29 Jan 12 at 5:03pm |
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Not at the Steve Nick, we were back on 971 (we were dropped to 950 at the bloody mary) The 400's were in their prime conditions able to role tack on every shift and pull the pole over to run very low.
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AndrewLB
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Posted: 29 Jan 12 at 4:40pm |
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quite frankly they had no chance of keeping up with Chris in those conditions; he's light (for a 10.2), local and damned fast. you really have to hope the wind goes beyond 15kts to catch him.
what's surprising looking at the asymmetric results is that the 400s did really well. in those conditions i would have expected the 100 (and probably the D-one) to have no trouble beating them. does the SJ handicap cut the gap between them?
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RS100 227 (10.2)
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Rob.e
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Posted: 29 Jan 12 at 12:04pm |
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Chris Larr was the leading 100- I believe he is a local, has owned the boat from new and was a top Vareo sailor before that being national Champ in 2008 if I remember correctly, so he has a good pedigree!
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charlie1019
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Posted: 28 Jan 12 at 11:36pm |
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Jimbo - I think the d-one was slightly quicker than the 100, but not a lot in it. First time we have really sailed them in those conditions (me and Russ) so we are still learning - if I won now easily, where would the fun be? A really great sail though, which would have been a bit boring in my opinion in some more conventional ina rig classes. Plus great race management by Northampton.
I think at the end of the day, the extra 18 months of racing the 100 sailer had under his belt shone through, plus if your going to start like I did in the second race where I was wedged on the port end committee boat, leading to a mass pile up and a few protests...  sorry all
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alstorer
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Posted: 28 Jan 12 at 10:01pm |
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wasn't quite sure- but basically, a 400 tried to squeeze in at the pin end boat, did badly, tacked and caused a domino of tacks that ended in bad times when someone held on starboard.
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