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Skiffybob 
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 Topic: Who was out this weekend?.....Posted: 13 Jul 09 at 8:00am |
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Just got back from Weymouth last night, EPIC weekend! 20kts+ on Saturday, grey and raining (but who cares), 18-20kts Sunday and sunshine (doesn't get any better than that). 3rd rig both days, and it was getting towards 4th rig at times. I'm sat here with sunburn, a big bruise on my ankle, my ribs on both side really hurting, and a big smile on my face. That was some of the best racing I've done in the UK in the past couple of years. Oh, and it helps that we won the Asymmetric class too |
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12ft Skiff - Gordon Keeble and the Furry Fly-by
AC - GBR271 - Whoosh B49 - Island Alchemy |
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Merlinboy
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Posted: 13 Jul 09 at 8:30am |
Bob its times like that i wished i hadnt drifted round a small puddle in fairford for 6 hours! |
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Phil eltringham
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Posted: 13 Jul 09 at 9:13am |
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Tiger Trophy was all about sunday. Saturday consisted of a 2 hourt on-the-water postponement, and two VERY light races. Sunday dawned however, and we had sunshine and 20-25 knots for the most part, dropped of to about 12 towards the end of the race, doing most of the length of the lake downwind, flat out made the whole weekend worthwhile, reminded me why we go sailing, perfect! even managed to scrabble a top 10 finish in the pursuit race despite a swim on the first lap, not bad for two crews in a boat |
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FLAT IS FAST!
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G.R.F.
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Posted: 13 Jul 09 at 11:53am |
It used to be the same in our game, they're so used to gusty shifty conditions their board/boat handling and response time has to be like lightning quick. Only thing that stops pond sailors in their tracks is a massive shore dump and even bigger scarier things out back! 
Sorry we missed your banjo's, my man's still not well enough.. |
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Lukepiewalker
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Posted: 13 Jul 09 at 9:24pm |
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Mike, you could try introducing a thimble to ease the bending of the line around the shackle and also limit wear.
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Ex-Finn GBR533 "Pie Hard"
Ex-National 12 3253 "Seawitch" Ex-National 12 2961 "Curved Air" Ex-Mirror 59096 "Voodoo Chile" |
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Lukepiewalker
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Posted: 13 Jul 09 at 9:29pm |
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Oh yes, and I actually went sailing. 2 races. Wind all over the place in strength (forces 1 to 4) and direction (wandered around 120 degrees or so along the way). And it rained...a lot... I discovered I am nowhere near where I need to be fitnesswise, and the only thing worse than getting to the 'windward' mark to find a dead run awaiting you, is getting to a reach to find it's beam to close when you want beam to broad... Oh yes, and there was weed. lots of weed...
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Ex-Finn GBR533 "Pie Hard"
Ex-National 12 3253 "Seawitch" Ex-National 12 2961 "Curved Air" Ex-Mirror 59096 "Voodoo Chile" |
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Rockhopper
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Posted: 13 Jul 09 at 9:46pm |
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well for me it was flat calm for once off shore wind going from 6 knots up to 20 knots.had a great first race lost time against the 29er till i spotted i big gust got in it in downwind with the kite up from being three mins behind to two boat lenghs behind nice to see them boys upset.still second race chased them non stop till there kicker broke so it was time to catch and lap some people vareo power for you !!!!! |
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Retired now after 35 seasons in a row and time for a rest.
2004 national champ Laser5000 2007,2010,National Champ Rs Vareo |
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mike ellis
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Posted: 14 Jul 09 at 10:02pm |
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I had just about decided to try that, hard eyes in all the splices. Just waiting to get paid now. |
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600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it.
Also International 14, 1318 |
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redback
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Posted: 15 Jul 09 at 8:35am |
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Any chance you can say where you were out - it would be
nice to compare the conditions in different parts of the country. For instance it was windy for me on the Medway - it would be interesting to know where Rockhopper and his "flat calm" was. |
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redback
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Posted: 15 Jul 09 at 8:49am |
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Incidentaly, I said it was windy on the Medway but I didn't
realise it was quite so windy. The records show it was 35mph in the gusts. This difficulty in realising the wind strength is something I've noticed with high performance boats. Upwind it always feels windy since we are probably doing 8Knots into a wind of 8Knots giving an apparent wind of 16 even on light days. Downwind of course we always sail at an angle which gets the crew out on the wire so its going to be much the same apparent wind whether we've got 10mph or 20mph. |
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