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vscott 
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 Topic: Who was out this weekend?.....Posted: 09 Jun 08 at 5:15pm |
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A seriously good weekend of club racing - sun and great winds and the Race Officer set a fantastic course making the most of Kielder Resrvoir - a good beat of nearly 4k!
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vscott
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Posted: 09 Jun 08 at 6:09pm |
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A seriously good weekend of club racing - sun and great winds and the Race Officer set a fantastic course making the most of Kielder Resrvoir - a good beat of nearly 4k!
Twice!
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tmoore
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Joined: 01 Nov 07 Location: Wales Online Status: Offline Posts: 880 |
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Posted: 09 Jun 08 at 6:53pm |
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god i wish our courses were that size. last wed we had a beat about 500m long and did 4 10minute laps in the race. except the wind shifted mabe 100degrees a grand total of 5times as for this weekend, we had a triangle course which was still a bit short but OK. then we could use the kite for the next leg (in a 29er) after that it was a dead run to the next leg and a totally one sided beat. not too impressed as evern though we were sailing so much faster than everyone else, due to the kite on the 9er we had to sail miles further and ended up slower than a phantom on the runs |
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Posted: 09 Jun 08 at 9:55pm |
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Damn, wish we had courses that long, and we could, being on the sea.
Ours was light shifty offshore, all we could do to hang on to the Rs 400 and a 505 then they broke away, we managed third. The 5 oh took it and the 400 not far behind. We'd held them the first half of the beat, but the nearer the shore, the lighter the wind, in the lulls we stick, they glide through. But we stuck it to the 470's which is more important to us, a classic moment.. as we asked them if they had the coffee on, going down the run as they were coming up the beat, they told us to ef off, then we got this lucky puffy favorable shift for the one time of the whole day, we trapped up and buggered off on the plane as they sank into the glassy hole that was the windward mark..  Sick as parrots they were.. Sadly
it didn't last long enough to reel in the 5 0 and the 400 but we closed the gap a bit. |
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JimC
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Posted: 15 Jun 08 at 11:22pm |
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I think I copped the most bizarre gust of my entire sailing career today... Light very shifty day, going upwind. Black line on water ahead,boat ahead hits it, sails flap/ back, goes in to windward. Aha I think, bear off 35 degrees, then a bit more for luck as it looks vicious... Gust hits, jib and main still full, got away with it I thought. Then the boat flips over on top of me still with sails full down the bottom and spits me of the plank... Looking up see top of sail totally backwinded because there's maybe 60 degrees difference in wind angle between the top of the mast and the spreaders... Must just have been eddying/vortexes on the gust line...
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alstorer
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Posted: 16 Jun 08 at 7:51am |
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We had a nasty shift too. Having been flat out on the foredeck, the iwnd had built and we were both out on the rack, planing along on a 3-sail reach. Wind suddenly shifts massively. Somehow I get across the boat and gybe the spinnaker and jib across, get them filling.
As the boat heels up, I realise my helm is still scrabbling around in the bottom of the boat, trying to figure out which stick he needs. Ah I manage to climb over the wing and end up on the upturned hull. He goes swimming. We then proceed to forget about the race temporarily due to laughter the wind had to to that point been so shifty, it was a joke. This was most definitely the punchline. |
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Jamie600
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Posted: 16 Jun 08 at 2:07pm |
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First airborne gybe yesterday so I'm feeling quite pleased with myself! Luckily it was just off the beach (well, gravelled area at the edge of the lake), so someone actually saw it. What made it even more special is that yesterday was a bonus sail, I saw the forecast of 5mph and only went up to touch up some scratches on the paint, so was quite pleased to find a solid F3 and even more pleased with the result. |
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ratface
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Posted: 16 Jun 08 at 4:31pm |
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spent 20 hours of my weekend on a coach from the south of France
 within 4 hours of stepping on home soil i was on the water sailing a friends 4k |
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ColH
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Posted: 16 Jun 08 at 6:25pm |
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Ah, dunno if you still have 'em these days but I miss those Round The Lake races! |
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James Morley
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Joined: 22 Jan 08 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 46 |
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Posted: 16 Jun 08 at 6:43pm |
Cool nice to see your getting the hang of it and have left the days of washing up on the bank well behind! I will have to have a look at your new paint job on sat we are coming up your way for a YHYSA open. |
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