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    Posted: 17 Mar 14 at 6:48pm
Oh Jesus we don't need a diplomatic incident this early in the game!!!
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In Courchevel, last day of a holiday, bombed my first black run, hit over 60 kph on GPS, rode in the park and managed a couple 50:50s on the easy boxes. I had the best black pudding in the world for lunch at the La Folie Douce in Meribel (proper dancing on the the tables ski joint) and to cap it all off, I just logged in here to check a PM (thanks Simon) and reminded myself there's a D-zero on order with my name on it.... Days don't get much better.

Home time tomorrow and I wonder if the dude who drives the shuttle will be the same fellow as the way here... He's also a sailor and windsurfer, but the amusing thing was he used to date one of Grumpf's daughters apparently. Small world!
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any weekend where I have managed 6 1/2 hours sailing can't be a bad one
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Puts all this PY bollox into perspective. Me, I was on duty today and enjoyed the spectator sport. In the pursuit race it was a bit too windy for the British Moths to excel. My money was on the Enterprise, but the Supernova pulled through in injury time....Another cracking day.

Looking forward to getting afloat soon.
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Had another blinding day today, bit more wind, even more excitement, battling it out with Rooster Man, a Laser and a stupidly well sailed Miracle that had no place being anywhere near, but just did, to be annoying and get in the way, I had to have a few words with them....

I so enjoy this sport, it's given me a totally new lease of life, just when i thought it was all beginning to tail off..

I love this little EPS, she whirs away when she gets a puff up her backside, just when they all thought they'd nailed us down, we'd get a puff, go whizzing deep low, take them all on the inside ad come out of the bottom mark back in the lead, just wish I could make it go as fast upwind stop them all coming back through me again..

Lost count of the number of times we all switched places for the lead, but eventually the wind dropped a tad and the Rooster pulled away, and I couldn't quite catch him again..

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Posts: 116 		Post Options Post Options   Quote robin34024 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16 Mar 14 at 6:40pm
Had a perfect day sailing a cherub for the first time yesterday, sun and breeze, and no racing to distract from just going out and enjoying a sail!  Big smile
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Spent the day doing my DI pre-assessment - had a really fun day!
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Cracking Weekend...

Yesterday I was helping run an RS200 open and they seemed to enjoy themselves with sunshine and breeze, whilst today I was allowed to race the Canoe as the house refurbishment is on schedule. Warm sunshine (ditched the spraytop for the afternoon races), interesting courses and the club hotshots in an RS500 to practically match race with... Goodness knows how many times my Canoe and their boat swapped places, but might even have been double figures in two 3 lap races, but we got one race on the water each (we'll draw a veil over handicap results after what happened to the club Canoe number this year!). Think we went round the penultimate mark of each lap overlapped 4 or 5 times...
There was about a 70 year age spread out on the water, all competing together and socialising off, this really is a great sport :-)

Edited by JimC - 16 Mar 14 at 7:38pm
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Posts: 302 		Post Options Post Options   Quote fleaberto Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 Mar 14 at 4:57pm
Just a cracking day to go for a sail.
Got the EPS out after a long time of not sailing (Only had two sails in anything since last November!)

Just the right sort of breeze for me in that boat and on a small, inland, gust-fest old gravel pit.
up the front with the Merlin/K1/RS400 scrap though lost out downwind in the ligh & fickle bits of the lake (I've got to get my head round this gybing rather than dead down malarkey).... the 5-oh was long gone.
7th on handicap but I'm just pleased to have got out there to be honest.
Donned the GF's pink top after race one, just for the hell of it.
Did quite crap as a result
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Feet up, watching the rugby highlights with a glass of Pigs Nose, great day to be out, on and near the water... Even rigging and packing up was a pleasure.  

Happy Englishman with a nice glass of whiskey in hand :-) 
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