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    Posted: 23 Aug 12 at 10:32am
Following on from the bucket list thread, how about all those things that would have been on the bucket list if you hadn't already done them?  This is unashamedly a chance to brag about how good/lucky/attractive/succesful you are....  So, as a start:
 
1) I have been paid to crew an 80' yacht round Sydney harbour
2) I spent a season instructing at Minorca Sailing
3) I pitch-poled a Hobie mid gybe because I got the tiller extension stuck up the (female) crew's shorts.
4) I have a camper van
5) I once overtook Andrew Simpson at a laser open.  (He then overtook me again...)
 
 
 
 
 
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I once had a long conversation with Sarah Ayton...........and have never recovered!
I once......well nothing else really.....my life is a failure.
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I once had a camper van with a 6 litre V8 engine
I sail a Flying Dutchman WITH MY WIFE
I'm still married...
 
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Originally posted by tickler

I once had a long conversation with Sarah Ayton...........and have never recovered!
I once......well nothing else really.....my life is a failure.

Post of the week.  I so empathise.
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1. I sailed at a Laser 2 World Champs at Sarasota in '95 when it was a BIG class.
B) I won the Owen Aisher prize at the NSSA.
iii. At the '03 Spitfire Europeans I had probably the most enjoyable sail of my life on the non-racing day, when we en-mass sailed from Netley to Ryde for ice creams, and had the most incredible sunny day, F4, blasting across the Solent sail back.
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1) Russell Coutts replied to a social media post of mine last night.
2) I also sail with my wife. Not always a good thing  Wink http://youtu.be/v7VN2Lz_rVU


Edited by ellistine - 23 Aug 12 at 1:18pm
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1)I taught Sting to Windsurf.
2)I once lectured Nick Dempseys Olympic Coach on sailing tactics.
3)I beat Fred Heywoods (and Crossbows)speed record (a big deal at the time) sailing with a rig I designed myself first time out. (So did loads of others on production kit)
4)I got banned a couple of times taking the piss out of dinghy sailors on an internet forum.. Wink


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As this is a thread for gratuitous showing off I think every point on peoples list should be justified with proof - otherwise it never happened.

So heres mine:

I sailed to and around the Med this summer on a Volvo 70 with yachting legend Giovanni Soldini.

My video proof
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In all fairness though video cameras didn't exist when grf was doing those things and I doubt that cine8 tape is still in existence
Everything I say is my opinion, honest
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Originally posted by ellistine

1) Russell Coutts replied to a social media post of mine last night.
2) I also sail with my wife. Not always a good thing  Wink http://youtu.be/v7VN2Lz_rVU
Clap That's a genius bit of video: "Have you seen the....whatever?"
 
Does the showing off have to be sailing related?
 
I once finished the Great North Run in a very good time, jogged from the finish line to the still-empty beer tent, used the fiver i'd pinned to my shirt to get a drink, stepped outside and said: "Piece of Pi**!" - as the bloke standing next to me vomited, collapsed and needed St John's attention.........
 
Sailingwise? - apart from some immense capsizes I can't really think of much LOL
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