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    Posted: 16 Oct 06 at 1:06pm
Originally posted by foaminatthedeck

My god how late do you want the bar to stay open surly even baze sailors need a few hours sleep before racing. I was crusing this weekend and struggled arfter going to bed at 4 getting up at 8. I don't think I could race well going to bed at 5.

Althought may be I looking at this from a different angle .



5pm not 5am.......some people!

We did alright on the social front, there was a big group of us staying at the travelodge in Staines so we went out and made out own entertainment in the various pubs and bars.
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Originally posted by m_liddell

and don't count on just hiking harder tahn everyone else to win!

bugger...that'll be why i did so bad at the inlands then....datchet sucks...fact!!
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Originally posted by Offshoretiger

 

The other downside of QMSC compared with Grafham and Rutland (and even Datchet) is they have no were for you to stay on site. Maybe explains why the bar closes so early but kind of kills the chance for socials at travellers & open events

 

Grafham will be Bussin this weekend, we are expecting 200+ cats for the open

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I learned on on really bad lake and have the following advice:

Avoid sailing into a 'hole' of no wind at all costs! This is vital.

Another VERY important point: small lakes mean setting insanly complex courses to make races last long enough. Carefully note the course and figure it out from the shore. The quickest way to lose is to screw up the course (where is mark no 5! lol) - this is so easily done on a strange lake and seen it happen many times.

Don't take any big risks, if they don't pay off in lake sailing you are really really screwed.

Lakes often have really useful wind bends. Find them and use them.

Be prepared for a race to go from F4 - 2 and back again with 90+ wind shifts. Adjust your rig accordingly when the changes happen.

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Originally posted by jeffers


Aside from that they ran the event well, only down side is that the bar closes at 5!

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My god how late do you want the bar to stay open surly even baze sailors need a few hours sleep before racing. I was crusing this weekend and struggled arfter going to bed at 4 getting up at 8. I don't think I could race well going to bed at 5.

Althought may be I looking at this from a different angle .
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Originally posted by jeffers

Sailed at QMSC this weekend at the Blaze inlands. Fairly nice piece of water bu they stick us over on the Eastern side, things got a bit shifty under the 'wall'

Aside from that they ran the event well, only down side is that the bar closes at 5!

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The other downside of QMSC compared with Grafham and Rutland (and even Datchet) is they have no were for you to stay on site. Maybe explains why the bar closes so early but kind of kills the chance for socials at travellers & open events
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Sailed at QMSC this weekend at the Blaze inlands. Fairly nice piece of water bu they stick us over on the Eastern side, things got a bit shifty under the 'wall'

Aside from that they ran the event well, only down side is that the bar closes at 5!

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Originally posted by Offshoretiger

Originally posted by turnturtle

or drive around the north circular, up the M4 and go to Datchet.....

But thats a shifty horrible pond as well, just a bit bigger

And when the 'tide' is out you are sailing in the bottom of a wok

 

 

Then drive up the A1 to Grafham

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Originally posted by combat wombat

  Fair enough its shifty as hell in an easterly but theres more at KGSC than just MRX's.  

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Originally posted by turnturtle

'tis true Lucy; how's about a little further around to Queen Mary reservoir... in fact stuff it, keep going round until you hit the M3, big sign says Southampton...

(joking aside I never sailed when I lived in london for this very reason; good excuse to up stix; even the midlands offers better sailing than our dear capital)  

At least QM had some water in it at the SGP, Datchet looked kind of empty again from the Heathrow flightpath on Wed.

I think if i lived in London Id be glad that Datchet and QM existed. As it is Im glad I live 5 mins walk from a club that sails on the salt stuff
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