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Steve 411 - war is not over yet. Merly taken another form. We won the last round 30-3 if I remember rightly.
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The d1 report is a bit unfortunate.  The only event I went to was the Gold Cup and there the majority of sailors stayed in club accommodation - very basic - or camped in vans on club grounds.  It was a great value for money event - lots of free food and beer, in no way posh.
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We of course had a lake view penthouse apartment but mostly to persuade me that this was a "holiday" ("Camping" is Guide Camp - NOT a holiday) but so we could cook for ourselves in the World of the Carnivore...  And actually it was dead cheap.  And we slept in the car at a services on the journey.
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Originally posted by winging it

The d1 report is a bit unfortunate.  The only event I went to was the Gold Cup and there the majority of sailors stayed in club accommodation - very basic - or camped in vans on club grounds.  It was a great value for money event - lots of free food and beer, in no way posh.


Didn't Jon get a hobbit hole under a layed-up Melges? I'm sure I saw some HP sauce on Facebook from that event.

Living the high life obviously...
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Originally posted by iGRF

Originally posted by yellowwelly

as if on cue, the D-One boys (and girl) step up to the plate with a tirade of marvellous affluence...


That not only looks like a dead ringer for yellow welly, the colour of the kite absolutely confirms it for me, definitely him.

I am sure Dave Gorringe will be really cheerful to be accused of being James. Or something
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Dave Gorringe is yellow wellys real name? Interesting, why do folk call him jimbo?
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Conundrum: admit to being of the sheep-bothering persuasion, or having an unhealthy liking for canary-hued yachting footwear?
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Originally posted by iGRF

Tony Benn was posh wasn't he?

There are lots of woolly minded left wing liberals who don't have to have the nitty gritty dealings with unwashed smelly sorts that go on trains (I went on the train last week, ghastly experience.)

Funny I don't know many woolly liberal left leaning types in boats, why even the nicest sorts scream like mental banshees if you call for something like water at a mark and they don't think there is any..

Another reason not to sail a Solo, you meet even more shouty people, life is so much more pleasant sailing in your own bit of the fleet away from the hoi polloi and so it is in the rest of life, easy to be a left leaning liberal if you don't actually have to mix with them..

Tony Benn is really Viscount Stansgate but he relinquished his title in the 60's. His father was a labour peer I believe. Probably something to do with Lloyd George?
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I refuse to listen to any comments on class from a man who markets ironing boards.

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Originally posted by Steve411

Originally posted by JimC

Originally posted by gordon

... at the origin of amateur sailing

I've come to believe that the greater the emphasis on amateur sailing (and especially if the word corinthian is involved), then the further "up" the social scale the club is positioned.
 
 
Oh crikey, Bristol Corinthian Yacht Club - not much hope is there...

There's posh innit!
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