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    Posted: 09 Feb 08 at 11:44pm

Tiger Trophy Photos at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gybeclicksplash/

If you download any think about a donation to John Merricks Sailing Trust.  http://www.jmst.org.uk/da/13730

 



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Nice photos, good work. You might want to play around with your settings so that you can set a "proper" address for yourself, rather than one with an @ in it.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Merlinboy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 Feb 08 at 9:33am
Quality i have found the first photo of me !! Unfortunately i'm capsized after just pissing it in after a gybe!
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Tom, cavitation is not where "The process where a void or bubble in a liquid rapidly collapses, producing a shock wave" When a civitation bubble collapses it does implode and create a shock wave as a result. 

The cavitation it's self is caused by the pressure drop in the fluid being so great that the fluid boils and creates a bubble of very low pressure gas.  It is an extreame case of the way that water boils at less than 100 degrees at the top of mountains because the surrounding air pressure (and hence the liquid) is so low.  This is the cavitation bubble, but as the surrounding pressure increases and the bubble collapses, imploding and thus creating a high pressure shock wave as it dissapears, this is what creats the pitting on propeller blades among other things.  sorry for the long winded answer but having spent a long time researching the subject i don't like to see people getting it wrong, enjoy. 

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Post Options Post Options   Quote Strangler Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 Feb 08 at 10:14pm

Originally posted by alstorer

Nice photos, good work. You might want to play around with your settings so that you can set a "proper" address for yourself, rather than one with an @ in it.

Can you give me some clues how to do this, thanks.

Update - have now updated the link in my previous post, ta for the PM Al.



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"Along with a couple of hundred spectators, Chris Henderson and I were greatly entertained. The biggest source of interest was watching a capsized RS300 drift past where we were standing with nobody in it...and an International Canoe which slowly sank 200m offshore. It was like watching Jaws, with the bloke trying to keep out of the water…"

Takes from the Musto Skiff report on the Tiger, unfortunately the 300 was mine and the Canoe was my mates!

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Haha. My friends pulled that RS300 up out of the water . Or at least claimed to, I think, can't remember!

How did you manage to quite literally lose it?



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Post Options Post Options   Quote Merlinboy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Feb 08 at 4:59pm
I didnt i just left it i was too cold to continue and my mainsheet was tangled round everything so i couldnt right the boat! I wish i wore a drysuit!
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Chris Bridges Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Feb 08 at 5:40pm

Should have sat on the board and looked cold, you would have got a lift  (or even better a tow)

Were you the one Kit picked up then?

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Post Options Post Options   Quote Merlinboy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Feb 08 at 5:58pm
No i got a lift on a rescue boat! i couldnt sit on the boatd, as as soo as i pull myself up on it the boat trys to right itself which meant the sail powered up and i fell off! and i don't know who kit is i'm afraid!
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