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| iGRF   Really should get out more     Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6499 |  Post Options  Quote  Reply  Topic: Video of the week Posted: 16 Mar 16 at 9:54am | 
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   Kids & Windsurfers is a natural mix, they should let them all wndsurf before they condemn them to sit in those opti boxes...
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| Rupert   Really should get out more   Joined: 11 Aug 04 Location: Whitefriars sc Online Status: Offline Posts: 8956 |  Post Options  Quote  Reply  Posted: 16 Mar 16 at 10:54am | 
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   My daughter loves windsurfing, and was going every week last summer, till she broke her foot and had a boot... hoping to start again with it this season at South Cerney outdoor on a Wednesday night. | |
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     Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686
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| iGRF   Really should get out more     Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6499 |  Post Options  Quote  Reply  Posted: 16 Mar 16 at 11:25am | 
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   You should join her Rupert with all your sailing experience in those mini sails you'd quickly find it a shoe in, then you'd also come to find what I'm always cracking on about with 'feel' to what the winds doing that is dead'nd by transmitting it through your butt.
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| GarethT   Really should get out more     Joined: 21 Apr 07 Online Status: Offline Posts: 714 |  Post Options  Quote  Reply  Posted: 16 Mar 16 at 11:41am | 
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   My son has just started teaching me. Three lessons in and I'm loving it. 
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| iGRF   Really should get out more     Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6499 |  Post Options  Quote  Reply  Posted: 16 Mar 16 at 1:54pm | 
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   Well like I said to Rupert, you guys here have half the battle won in your wind appreciation so it should be a lot easier for you than the average joe soap who has never done anything with the wind and water. I swear to God this dinghy sailing lark is more difficult, maybe it's the time of life at which i chose to take it up, or the string of ahem unusual craft for a beginner, but compared to the K.I.S.S. that is windsurfing, sailing dinghies to an acceptable standard is really hard to accomplish.
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| Rupert   Really should get out more   Joined: 11 Aug 04 Location: Whitefriars sc Online Status: Offline Posts: 8956 |  Post Options  Quote  Reply  Posted: 16 Mar 16 at 2:01pm | 
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   I've sailed by feel all my life, and did windsurf way back when, but not liking getting wet put me off rather, and meant I wasn't willing to commit, so always had a "sitting on the toilet" stance. I think that was what strained my back, and made things painful.
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     Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686
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| iGRF   Really should get out more     Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6499 |  Post Options  Quote  Reply  Posted: 16 Mar 16 at 2:08pm | 
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   Yes it would have done, I guess like bad hiking technique, it's what harnesses are for.
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| GaryM.   Newbie   Joined: 07 Mar 16 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3 |  Post Options  Quote  Reply  Posted: 19 Mar 16 at 2:25pm | 
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 Great color of the water ... | |
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| realnutter   Posting king   Joined: 17 Nov 15 Location: Reading, UK Online Status: Offline Posts: 129 |  Post Options  Quote  Reply  Posted: 19 Mar 16 at 3:50pm | 
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| JimC   Really should get out more     Joined: 17 May 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 6662 |  Post Options  Quote  Reply  Posted: 20 Mar 16 at 3:34pm | 
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   NZL R Class.
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