The RS100 Owners Thread

Originally posted by Mark Jardine Originally posted by turnturtle Including Y&Y's very own Grumpf Really????!!!!

Really?

Where's my contributors cheque then?



Seriously I think TT is just being conciliatory because I let him beat me.

I recorded a DFL (Dead Fecking last).

It was shall we say an 'interesting' introduction to single handed
championship sailing. The words 'brutal' and 'savage' spring to the
descriptive mind. Four races back to back in 25 knots is probably more
than I could have taken even if the damn kite hadn't jammed half up half
down. Lucky in a way I didn't have to find some other means of retiring
myself.

Is that what championships do these days? I have to say I prefer the more
leisurely ways of old, couple of races in the morning, followed by lunch
then a couple in the afternoon.

Having said that, it was a massive boost to my learning curve, there is no
doubt, there is no better way to improve than take part in something like
that. Equipment failure aside (I do have this sense of being robbed and TT
being reprieved. ) sailing with guys who are so obviously in this whole
other league, my upwind whines and moans are all clearly lack of
technique. (I still think that buttock bathing lark should be outlawed, as
well as being painful, it's extremely undignified for a Gentleman of
advancing years.).
Yet my downwind technique is O.K., not having p1ssed it in other than
deliberately to manually get my kite down at the end of the run. Coming
downwind and seeing long rows of what you thought were good guys all
on their side in a neat little line, did wonders for my confidence having
had it so badly trashed upwind.

My starts were O.K. as well, it was the one area I was concerned about,
never having jostled in an aggressive fleet before and with limited control
as to making it stop and or go backwards on demand like we do with
boards. There was plenty of space as it turned out, nobody seemed to be
working the middle on transit and one time I even managed a pin end
windward boat free and clear, not that it helped me since I'm going so
slowly I quickly gotten overtaken from above and below, but I do know
now at least how to improve on that bit, I shall clearly just have to bath
my
bum a bit more..

ALl in all, a great experience, marred only by equipment issues and my
hectic life right now, which face it hardly allows the 5 P's to be addressed
which are so essential if you are to take anything like that seriously.

If anyone from the organisational side is reading this well done and
thanks, my apologies to all for having to leave early, truth is I shouldn't
really have been there with everything that's going on right now, but I'm
glad I went, I'm even happier I took a thrashing. I've always said no point
trying to win something unless you've first come last in it, and it remains
true, you meet a far nicer person at the back of the fleet..

But some of those b'stards at the front do badly need their chancing arses
handed to them next time..

Nice to meet everyone, look forward to the next time.

Oh there was one other thing I found extremely difficult to reconcile and
that was the group beer drinking avoidance, What is that all about?

How come the bar was always devoid of RS100 sailors?

Or was that just me nobody wanted to drink with...

Edited by G.R.F.

This is what a fleet of RS100s looks like!

This is what the winners look like

Originally posted by Mark Jardine Originally posted by turnturtle Including Y&Y's very own Grumpf Really????!!!!

You must have adopted the urchin Mark!

Originally posted by turnturtle Aching.... Everywhere

So who is the first 100 champ?

Looks like decent breeze (the forecast for Sunday is looking fairly
heroic btw). You all seem to have the booms right out downwind, do
you not get fairly big back-winding problems? Pinning the main in
makes a BIG difference to speed.