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jeffers 
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 Topic: Who was out this weekend?.....Posted: 02 Jan 09 at 11:13am |
Good to see you got out Nigel, shame 'er indoors had made other plans as I would have enjoyed having some other 8.1s to play with. How did you get on in the light stuff? |
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Webmuppet
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Posted: 02 Jan 09 at 2:57pm |
It was really interesting, a very different experience to sailing the Vareo but very enjoyable. I kept well out of the way at the start but gradually picked a few people off on the upwind leg and even more sailing by-the-lee on the way back - definitely good fun ! Nigel |
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I am the milkman of human kindness, I will leave an extra pint (Billy Bragg)
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mike ellis
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Posted: 04 Jan 09 at 6:04pm |
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I have started my leak hunting campaign on the 600 today. I have removed all the fittings apart from the bottom pintel (which i have replaced and rebedded once this year already), the loops that hold the racks down (which i will have to remove at some point to get the racks off to get at the ends fixed to the boat to rebed them), the plastic loops which the trapeze elastic goes through (which cant possibly be leaking because they go through solid laminate), and the eye on the bow for the forestay (same as the trapeze elastic loops). I have everything else off and in icecream tubs on my desk. I have cleaned the blocks and cleats in boiling water to get the salt off them (most of them are as old as the boat so it needed doing). I've even taken the metal disk with the nipple which the mast steps onto off to rebed that, and then promptly started wishing i hadn't. Underneath it was all wet filler with mildew growing in it, and around the edge was a dodgy looking lot of gelcoat. Having investigated further it looks like the mast foot has been cracked up somehow and now my urge to have a nice shiny boat is making me want to take the hole thing off and rebuild it, which probably isnt necessary and will be far too much work so i'll have to think of a better way. When i took the mainsheet block off and removed the sealent stuck to the deck a load of water ran out from that so i've found another possible source of the leak. And when i removed the stopper at the top of the daggerboard case there was a load of cracked up gelcoat hinting at something worse underneath. The worst bit is i can't get the boat into the garage anymore due to an excess of windsurfing kit demanding more racks to be built in the garage so now it's too narrow for the boat, even without the racks on the 600. On the up side at least i have a good project for the winter. |
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600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it.
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Smight at BBSC
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Posted: 04 Jan 09 at 7:12pm |
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sounds like a bundle of fun. I wouldn't rule out the plastic leads for the trapeze as my old boat used to leak quite a lot from there. Good luck mate.
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mike ellis
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Posted: 10 Jan 09 at 6:33pm |
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My dad and I have finally cleaned out the garage today. It's hard to believe how much crap had acumulated in there, and how much dust can build up over the years. Anyway I'ts now filled with 600, so the leak hunt has progressed on to putting fittings back in now its in the warm.
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600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it.
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mike ellis
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Posted: 11 Jan 09 at 3:18pm |
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Been windsurfing today and it is bloody freezing! My body, arms and legs were nice and toasty inside my 5/3 gul steamer (now in its second winter and still going strong) but my hands and feet were frozen. I didnt have any gloves on because i find it makes it harder to hold the boom, but my boots have gone downhill in the warmness stakes. Anyway when i got off the water before i even got inside my hands were hurting with warming up. But it was a good session.
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600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it.
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drifter
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Posted: 11 Jan 09 at 6:38pm |
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Not out today-lake still frozen.
 Ice really thick round the edges, but weather mild and windy!
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MRJP BUZZ 585
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Posted: 11 Jan 09 at 6:42pm |
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From last week it was frozen and no wind to this week it was no ice and stupidly windy, maybe this means it will be perfect next week. Probably, i'm not there
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BBSCFaithfull
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Posted: 11 Jan 09 at 6:45pm |
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Sodding lake was frozen so no sailing
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alstorer
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Posted: 11 Jan 09 at 7:32pm |
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Helm was complaining of man-flu, so as there was a damn good (if blustery, as ever) I cadged what ride I could find- in today's case a Vago. Which I am, really, rather too big for- bit cramped up front. Certainly weren't underpowered though, even with the smaller main. Had fun, especially when broadreaching with the kite. Planing along with a kite up can never be anything other than fun, no matter the boat.
Crewing it confirmed by thoughts from the last time I sailed one- the design is somewhat careless. Jib cleats poorly located (very hard to get cleated if you're traping properly forward), little to get traction on when jumping in and out from the wire in gusts. Had to have feet a bit wider part apart than ideal due to poor grip- I could feel the boat flex in gusts! We swapped roles for the second race (Geoff usually singlehands it, and was glad for the extra body today). Seemed to be fairly easy to get it to go where I wanted. Couldn't quite get the controls set right really, which probably didn't help our speed. It was still fun, for all it's foibles. More fun than a club Laser would have been. |
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