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    Posted: 28 Aug 05 at 7:41am

Originally posted by sailor girl

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Papercourt may be the tiniest patch of water raced on in the UK. It's certainly the smallest I've sailed on. Not really the place for a very quick boat. 
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I've sailed at Tamesis as well. Just once, as it happens:) I don't remember the river there as especially small, particularly since I've also sailed much further upriver (Cookham and Upper Thames). However my abiding memories of Tamesis are 1. It was a Merlin club and I was there doing a Merlin open but the launching slips were too narrow for Merlins and 2. we spent the entire race dodging rowing 8s and gin palaces apparently steered by gin drinkers.

Actually I was wrong to say "Papercourt may be the tiniest patch of water raced on in the UK." That honour probably goes to Round Pond in Kensington Gardens. However, they only race model yachts.   
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Redesmere Sc. is tiny, very shallow and surrounded by trees, far smaller than papercourt i think. i think the smallest Uk club is Gresford in North Wales
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I've not been to either of those but I've read Redesmere is half a mile long, which is a lot bigger than Papercourt.
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1/2 a mile long and about 50m wide! Plus you cant sail on 50% of the lake as it's too shallow
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Originally posted by turnturtle



  (Although never sailed there, there is a sailing club local to me in the middle of Leamington Spa and also another in Sutton Park in Sutton Coldfield- now they do look far too small for anything other than a few dry capsizes in a flopper and a bailer-induced, water fight....)

There is nothing wrong with the club in leamington spa, i don't care if it is only 8 acres

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papercourt is about half a mile long!,yer crap wind tho, hm is that stephanie? or am i thinking o sum1 else
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Stephanie?!?! Big smile Have you been trying to mislead us, Stefan Lloyd???
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I sailed an oppie on papercourt and felt chlostrophobic in that!  And then you get these really shallow parts that you always get stuck on
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Single or double handed?

What do you weigh?

Are you gonna keep doing opens?

Small lake lots of tacking not much space!

Assuming your just to big for toppers my choices would be a...drumroll please

Byte CII or N12

 
I might be sailing it, but it's still sh**e!
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