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    Posted: 25 Aug 15 at 3:00pm
only the cheapo chinese imported ones....  the UK ones can be patched up and bounce back with right fiscal support from the central coffers of the Argh Why Aye.  
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Originally posted by kneewrecker

there's a regressive force in dinghy sailing .... don't fight it, embrace it.  

I agree...... however...
I should imagine that his nibs could go into verbal overdrive on that one. 
Thank ***k merlin rockets aren't a stock exchange quoted company. 
They'd be right down the toilet by now  Wink



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there's a regressive force in dinghy sailing .... don't fight it, embrace it.  
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I feel like a part of me has died reading this. Like when your child learns their first swear word, or ou realise yor dad never did actually play for Surrey.
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Originally posted by rogerd

hear we go...........
 
When is a classic not a classic.

they'd all look rather nubile with that old goat helming them Roger ;-)


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hear we go...........
 
When is a classic not a classic.
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Originally posted by Pierre

I know where this may go .. PY and classic merlin PY... oh yes....
 
and then.... Can it race as an old Merlin because it's narrow, wood and got one original piece of wood? Wink
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I know where this may go .. PY and classic merlin PY... oh yes....
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Originally posted by iGRF

Well after all those years of piss taking, I finally got a go in one today and I absolutely hate to admit it but I thoroughly enjoyed it, luckily the wind turned down a bit from what it had been earlier or I'm sure, in fact almost certain I'd have fallen out of it. It's not the most comfortable thing I've ever ridden, but there's so much to do in it, you have no chance of getting bored. I've never sailed anything with a symmetric kite, if I ever got one that would have to go, we were doing really well until the second time round and I said chuck up the kite, he went no! I said er why not? He said the burgee is not abeam of the forecastle or some such sailing narrative that even though I've repeated it several times in humour today i still cant exactly remember what he said, but anyway because it wasn't he said it would be a waste of time putting it up so the RS400 and the L4K we were racing both got past us on the reach, we'd get them back upwind and we'd get them back down the run, but eventually the race finished at the bottom of a reach so they got us over the water in the end.
I did a bit of a wind up video of our preparation which I'll try and stitch together, but right now I'm quite proud I managed to just get in it and finish 4th over the water and damn nearly came 2nd, if the burgee hadn't been abeam of the wotsit...
Not a boat for beginners, In fact even though i was wiggling the stick pretty adeptly even if i do say so myself, there was a whole load of other competent crew stuff going on, he did everything, i didn't pull a single rope other than the main, my kind of boat, don't anyone tell you the helm is the most important part of Merlin sailing, no wonder they can get p1ssed out of their minds every night during Salcombe week.

Preserved for all eternity....

He will sail a Solo next on a shifty puddle and find it strangely satisfying.....
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I hope it's a wooden one?
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