Top end limit finally reached..

   He, the above poster was on the beach when the wind really came up, they finished the race early because of issues with other boats...
It's fools just like him with quotes like 'it wasn't that bad' that put lives of others at risk.

STFU dan and think yourself lucky, oh and next time you miss your duty any results you may have gained this reason will be wiped...

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G.R.F. Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 10 Aug 08 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 4028	Post Options Post Reply Quote G.R.F. Report Post Quote Reply Topic: Top end limit finally reached.. Posted: 24 Jun 12 at 5:32pm
	He, the above poster was on the beach when the wind really came up, they finished the race early because of issues with other boats... It's fools just like him with quotes like 'it wasn't that bad' that put lives of others at risk. STFU dan and think yourself lucky, oh and next time you miss your duty any results you may have gained this reason will be wiped...
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hollandsd Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 12 Oct 06 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 853	Post Options Post Reply Quote hollandsd Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jun 12 at 4:46pm
	Come on Graeme, it wasn't that bad, sure it was windy but I managed to finish the race without capsizing or breaking anything. Had a silly little capsize on my way in but I had a whale of a time. Admittedly I was the only boat to finish the race and I did do a lap more than the other boats but it was challenging but fun, by no means unsailable. Cranked everything on full going upwind, half kicker off downwind and trapezing off the straps for balance. Had the waves been up more too It would have been a problem but the water wasnt too lumpy and I had a thoroughly enjoyable sail. Dan
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	I was out in the Minisail in 50 knots - nailed the gybe, planed past the AC catamaran that was out practicing, went wave jumping with the windsurfers - what a sail that was... in my head. Yep, 30 knots just blows you flat. No fun at all. In reality, we had gusts of 23-25 mph today, and that was pretty epic sailing the ironing board.
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G.R.F. Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 10 Aug 08 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 4028	Post Options Post Reply Quote G.R.F. Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jun 12 at 2:27pm
	Thursday last we knew it was due to come up, but there was no immediate sign, clouds were n't exactly scudding along and it looked pretty light. Time the course was laid and the gun sounded it was around 3-4 bft, certainly no more and as we set off it puffed up a tad but nothing other than to assure us a fun race was about to ensue and my new crew would get some fast three sail action in a reasonable breeze for the first time. He's not that much heavier than me, probably 75 kgs so we're around 145 all up and were happy to be showing our rivals in their Merlin a clean pair of heels and pulling away nicely, only the Contenders had the better of us, but their initial lead was being reeled in every leg we got the kite up. I'd set the course this time so I'd done my best to make it Contender unfriendly, nice deep reaches, keep the buggers off their wires, but the first big puffs shifted the first reach a bit more beamy for them so they were wiring like the sons of unmarried parents that they are. We'd done the first triangle sausage when the first of the big gusts hit, they were solid, bloody walls of wind initially about 25 knots, we dumped the kicker hauled the downhaul til my fingers bled, but the next set of gusts just stopped us dead, first head to wind, then even fully sheeted out, over we went, crew fully out on the wire, me hiking for all I was worth, the main sheeted right out, we still went over in the flap drag. Must have been thirty, thirty five knots, we got it up, went down the next two reaches, didn't bother with the kite and at the end of the second reach, the shore was beckoning my sense of what was the right decision to take, but crew boy gives it the 'who dares wins Rodney' so we harden up and go for another beat.. Big mistake, half way up we're over again, massive gust just flattened us, then he noticed the rudder drifting off just as we're righting it, swims off to get it despite me querying where's he going now just as the boat rights then with me in it and full of water just gets blown straight over again and away downwind from my man who's now struggling to catch up swimming with the rudder. Half an hour later... After much trauma, losing the rudder, a bent Gnav we came in under bare poles, still blowing over again just as we come up the beach. There was chaos everywhere, the rescue boat had to be beached after being flooded, I had to get it back up the coast full to the gunwales and the water up to the engine cowls, we'd gotten everyone ashore and safe and the marks back, but what a night... So, nobody tell me they can sail in any control in wind over 30 knots, it's not possible, even winching the boats up the beach with bare poles we still had a Contender blow clean over... 30 knots is definitely the top end limit, I certainly don't want to be out there in that again.. Edited by G.R.F. - 24 Jun 12 at 5:37pm
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