Who was out this weekend?.....

   Nssa Team racing was excellent fun, no wind on saturday morning building up to 18-20 kts and the PRO calling a reef, sunday was fairly breezy but not quite as much as saturday, the wind also did a 180 shift as the pressure moved straight over the club.  It was good, very close racing and good time had by all.  

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DaveL Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Posting king Joined: 28 Oct 07 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 111	Post Options Post Reply Quote DaveL Report Post Quote Reply Topic: Who was out this weekend?..... Posted: 06 Oct 08 at 11:48pm
	Nssa Team racing was excellent fun, no wind on saturday morning building up to 18-20 kts and the PRO calling a reef, sunday was fairly breezy but not quite as much as saturday, the wind also did a 180 shift as the pressure moved straight over the club. It was good, very close racing and good time had by all.
	Contender GBR443 National 12 - 2859 "Dogmatic"

Ross Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 02 May 07 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1163	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ross Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 06 Oct 08 at 11:53am
	I sailed with Stuberry at the Cherub inlands at Corus. Saturday was mad. We arrived to a good force 6-7. Little sails, little boat and a 150 ish kg on board = fast! Stu was shocked at how quickly FS takes off. We were surprised when the club showed absolutely no hesitation when they sent us out. They were trying to hurry us up! Most clubs would have canceled racing but not Corus. The club as earned legendary status. To cut a long story short I smacked my tail bone really hard into the shroud base, that hurt! We also snapped my mast. The shroud ripped through the stainless steel shroud plae, which was a PITA. An end to the weekends sailing, or so we thought. We managed to get hold of another mast, strip the broken one and measure up and fit out the new mast on Sunday, rig and went for a drift. Edited by Ross
	Ross If you can't carry it, don't sail it!

Adam MR 1137 Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Posting king Joined: 10 Feb 07 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 114	Post Options Post Reply Quote Adam MR 1137 Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 06 Oct 08 at 10:57am
	At the OK Inlands at Northampton this weekend. Despite me not racing much, due to my lack of skill in such high winds, had an awesome weekend.
	Merlin rocket 1137 OK 2049 Can be seen at WYC

mike ellis Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 30 Dec 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2339	Post Options Post Reply Quote mike ellis Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 30 Sep 08 at 8:27pm
	just been out tonight for a bit of a windsurfing session. got about 40 mins of proper planing at last. but then my UJ tendon snapped. that made getting back near the car in a cross-on breeze interesting. anyway I shall now have to get over to the boards forum to work out what is the best part to get.
	600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318

mike ellis Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 30 Dec 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2339	Post Options Post Reply Quote mike ellis Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 29 Sep 08 at 5:48pm
	i managed to get the 14 out with a kite on it on saturday afternoon. we had 8-10 knots of wind and we're only just twinning, mostly single wire, upwind. Downwind, i wet really high and got both of us on the wire. then i went back to sailing the right direction i would in a race and we were single wiring. It was myself helming, and a mate who was going to go to the qualifier but decided he couldn't be bothered because of the lack of wind crewing (i bet he'll be peeved off to hear they got some nice racing in). I can't wait to get this boat out on a nice F4-5 day with a typical solent chop running to see what it's like. Sunday i sat around on the balcony watching before i had to go and do some college work I didn't miss anything though. There was barely any wind and the lasers we're going backwards at some points.
	600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318

Jon Emmett Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 15 Mar 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 988	Post Options Post Reply Quote Jon Emmett Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 29 Sep 08 at 8:45am
	We got four good (but light) races in a Torbay for the Radial Qualifier which was excellent considering the weather forecast .
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winging it Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 22 Mar 07 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3958	Post Options Post Reply Quote winging it Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 29 Sep 08 at 8:09am
	As we are due to move soon sailing is a bit on the back burner. However, there is the question of a partially rubbed down dinghy in the garage which has to move when we do....fortunately I have just acquired (via the Cat's Protection jumble sale) a very useful hot air gun....
	the same, but different...

Lukepiewalker Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 24 May 06 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1341	Post Options Post Reply Quote Lukepiewalker Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 29 Sep 08 at 6:47am
	I polished orf me Dinghy Instructors course.
	Ex-Finn GBR533 "Pie Hard" Ex-National 12 3253 "Seawitch" Ex-National 12 2961 "Curved Air" Ex-Mirror 59096 "Voodoo Chile"

MRJP BUZZ 585 Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 05 Mar 06 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1496	Post Options Post Reply Quote MRJP BUZZ 585 Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 29 Sep 08 at 12:08am
	Spent the whole of the weekend trying to get races in for the south west zone championships but unfortunately we couldn't get any races either saturday and sunday due to no wind at all, although we did run a paddling race yesterday just for fun and to try and fill the time also listened to a very good talk by Joe Glanfield who was guest of honour
	Josh Preater BUZZING IS FUN

G.R.F. Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 10 Aug 08 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 4028	Post Options Post Reply Quote G.R.F. Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 28 Sep 08 at 10:56pm
	Race officer this weekend, the first sunny steady light wind race of the season. Still I got them to split the start into slow and fast handicap which worked pretty well in one 10-5-4-1-off sequence with the slow handicap going on the 4.