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    Posted: 15 Jan 07 at 8:08pm
Was quite fun, tricky tho. Going from tiptoe trapping to the other side of the boat then back out again on the same leg was interesting to say the least . Also fell out the boat on a tack - forgetting i wasn't in our Osprey and that there was nothing to hook my feet into  . Good racing, that Fireball was very quick, well done to them for winning it  , i thought it was gonna be a singlehander or a 2 man hiker.
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I am not all that old, 61 but I remember, when I was a long distance truck driver some years ago loading on those docks and sure as hell no one would have been buggering about in that water then. When a small boy the upper pool,above Tower Bridge was full of ships and I saw a sailing barge working in Rotherhythe. It all seems very odd. I'm off to bed with me cocoa now.....strange new world.

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Originally posted by Chris Turner

Why is it a shame that it did not favour skiffs?



It was a shame because I wanted the B14's to win! 
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Not really the type of water that lends itself to high speed skiffs, or A-Class Catamarans - I was tootling downwind at a genteel pace and that thing was flying!  Must be very impressive when it's got enough space to really move.

 

 

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I see we now have the top ten results on the news section. Its a shame with it being a Y&Y sponsered event the full results are not there to see.
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That Fireball really was going as fast as it looked - only trapeze boat in the top ten - and without one of its wires for the last lap. The gap to the B14's wasn't changing lap by lap either, so far as I could see.

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apparently there was a bit of a mess up with the results.......
lifes to short to sail slow boats!

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Any Chance of the results as they stand as a member of our club took part and we would like to tell other members how he did .

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If you take another look at news page which featured the event, they have added the results for all 50 participants.

 

 

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Welcome to the rant-line.

Did I miss something or was the sail.tv coverage on y&y appauling. Boats milling around before the start for 2 minutes seems to be the extent of it. I would be embarrased to put my name to it. Ain't sail.tv supposed to be experts at covering our sport?  Or is it just a preview. If so why bother it doesn't cover the product in glory. The was plenty of action.

I dispair at most tv coverage of our sport. The best productions are done by amateurs, the sailors themselves.
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