V Twin

Bit unkind filming the maiden outin: bound to be a bit snaggy...

Originally posted by G.R.F. She who crews the 470 and loves a good hiding... They are all going to have to get used to a new stern..

It's funny that, you wait all week to race, then I still get that nervy rush in the run up to the start, but once you're into it, all you want is the race to be over.. If you're in the lead, before anyone catches you, if you're down the pan to get into the bar, if you're mid fleet to stop the pain..

Edited by G.R.F. - 05 Aug 11 at 5:12pm

I like to be standing on the balcony overlooking the slip, pint in hand as the hotshot (he's well up the fleet in the laser masters) who will probably beat me on handicap comes up the slope with his boat full of mackerel, I smirk and I'm looking down on him (unusual perspective for me) when I ask what kept him or did he not actually enter that race... (He'll generally win at our club and no doubt will be forced to break out the MPS when the V-Twin hits the water, but that's the craik, the post race banter, and that's all it's about, him, the Chuckle Bros in the five oh, the Constantly Over the line Lawyer, Dumb & Dumberer, He who cannot be spoken of or he'll protest you also in a Contender, She who crews the 470 and loves a good hiding, my mate in a Phantom that I've sworn to eat if he ever beats me again and sundry others in Lasers of all guises 2,3+4k, Visions, Hobie 405's, RS 200's and 500) They are all going to have to get used to a new stern..

Edited by G.R.F. - 05 Aug 11 at 4:49pm

Originally posted by G.R.F. It's not about winning by handicap, it's about being first over the line, boat in the boat park, cover on before the next boat crosses the line.... Handicap means if there's a laser just sailing anywhere remotely near the course it'll win on handicap and be full to the gunwale with mackerel

Why don't you just hang around in the boat park then? You will always be first to have the cover on.