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    Posted: 17 May 07 at 4:41pm

Chalenge Accepted!

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I'm getting the GPS charged for Carsington this weekend. The Badger is hitting the water and there is 15-20 knots of wind forecast 
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Had a great w/ends sailing last week, 3 really good courses which suited us perfectly (more so if we hadn't been 12 minutes late for the first race!) Managed to lose my helm over the side in the second race  which was funny, but the silly sod managed to break the tiller as well! You can imagine it, trying to sail to the finish line with only half a tiller and trapezee as well

Still no misshaps in the last race which was good. All in all a good sail, but the oppie inlands are this w/end!!!!! So might have to find some jobs to do on the Lancia on Sunday. It's got to be more fun than trying to park and get to the canteen with about 1000 parents,grandparents, uncles, aunts and second cousins removed blocking everwhere!

(but it is good for the club and is always a very popular open with the visitors.)

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well, today was my first day in a furball.

it was fun

in the race we had to retire because i am only 11 stone and that is not enough on the wire to let the boat foot off to plane when its blowing a lot. so on the first beat we were pinching through all the chop and we had the cockpit full of water up to the gunwhales. that was amusing. so we retired on the second beat.

then we went in, i gave my helm the tapeze harness. that was fun. now we had more like 15 stone on the wire and she went like a dream. the boat is soooooo much nicer than a laser upwind (mind you most things are) and then we bore off for a reach and for the best part of that reach i could see NOTHING. absolutely nothing. it was great, spray everywhere and it felt really fast.

came in again and i was grinning for the rrest of the day, still am

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Grafham in .. Lots of wind!!

Vareo for an hour, and a Laser 2000 for another hour or so ( And a near drowning by me! )
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Originally posted by mike ellis

we had to retire because i am only 11 stone and that is not enough on the wire to let the boat foot off to plane when its blowing a lot.

you wanna try with a crew that ways just uner 10stone and a 9.5 stone helm

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Not for me; I broke it last weekend !
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Originally posted by Villan

Grafham in .. Lots of wind!!

Vareo for an hour, and a Laser 2000 for another hour or so ( And a near drowning by me! )

Come and say hello then I'll be there Today (Sunday)

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Unfortunatley, I was there yesterday ( Saturday ) and am still trying to come to terms with the sheer number of Oppies that were there!
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it was a little busy, but with no wind today they were alll on their way by 3ish
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