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    Posted: 22 Sep 08 at 10:16pm
Finally a good weekend to sail my new toy:







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Basically the same as Ratface ... But helming the B14 he mentioned.

It was strange having both of us sat on the wing with the boat cruising along in mirror flat water.

Clasic car show + Carters steam fair were in the area, so we decided to kill an hour going around there, and then home.

Same again next weekend I believe!
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Saturday was on our RIB at Marconi for the Mirror Squaddie selection weekend. Sat moored to a bouy most of the day in lovely sunshine.

Sunday I took the double stacker with two Lasers to Wraysbury for teh TVGP. Turned up to no wind, after some encouragement from the locals that the wind would fill rigged still to no wind. Then after 3 hours of waiting it filled in, and then we went for a drifting/sailing session.

Not the best in light winds, but hey, I want loads for next week, not sure if I'll get it! 

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Sat: Arrived at Queen Mary SC to a flat calm mirror of water and a brilliant clear sky and sunshine!, rigged up boats in no wind waited 10mins or so and my crew and the b14 crew with us went for a early lunch. After the early lunch both boats decided to launch just so we could go for a float, after not bothering to put my harness on while ashore, putting it in the boat, i had to put it on while the boat was moving,now that was interesting. i was having to wire in what looked like no wind as the afternoon continued the wind picked up to a nice breeze, had quite a few nice downwind runs attempting not to scare my crew too much. Just before coming off the water after a nice day on the water the wind was enough to have got twinning downwind.

Sun:Was supposed to be on the safety boat but wasn't needed in the end, considered going for a quick sail but there was hardly any wind. Resulting in going to the local steam fair/classic car show
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Originally posted by winging it

It's always interesting to observe the differences between grass roots sailing and grass roots athletics.

And they might be?

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Managed to borrow myself a Phantom yesterday as there was very little wind and showed the fleet a clean pair of heels... If only I had the money (and very flat cut sail).

Was good for a laugh, how do you Phantom boys manage without breaking your necks? I tripped over the control lines and toe strap shock cord so many times!
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I was in the no wind brigade and so spent today helping out the other half as an athletics official.  This meant I had the dubious pleasure of running towards potentially lethal missiles.....ie the shot and the discus.

It's always interesting to observe the differences between grass roots sailing and grass roots athletics.
the same, but different...

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Interesting one of the young Topper/Radial sailors had a choice of events to go to this weekend: Island Barn (Topper) which had no wind and Pevensey Bay (Radial) where people were retiring as it was too windy!
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Another fine warm(ish) breezy sunday, nothing too testing, force 2-3,
maybe a touch of 4 now and again. Not many fast boats out except our
old RS500 and Dumb trying to single hand the V3000 without Dumberer
(and expecting to be allowed to race on the same handicap, not a chance
in hell).

One of the nicest sailing days this year, the course was a bit too short for
us, 1st reach too tight to kite, and the 2nd reach seemed over before it
started.

But it just went to show how much this summer's strong winds has
improved our boat handling, we hardly made a mistake, lost maybe a few
seconds on one hoist when the little yellow ball we use between
spinnaker patches got itself wedged in one of the wing wang cleats, but
other than that we did just fine. Three and a half minutes ahead of the
next boat, not bad, that's two fine days in a row, good weather seems to
suit us.

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The best weekend's weather for weeks!  On Saturday helped out with junior training and tried rudderless sailing  in a lovely force 2. Sunday took part in a relay triathlon raising money for Sail 4 Cancer. Superb conditions for all three legs, mist delayed the start of swim but meant absolutely no headwind for the cycle, phew.

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