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    Posted: 02 Jan 10 at 7:34pm
Dry wipe markers work quite well
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A roll of white / yellow or similar light coloured sticky tape from B&Q (or similar).

A (thin) permanent pen from Staples (or similar). Kept with the tape in your life jacket.

Write the course on. Stick the tape to the boat. Peel the tape off at the end of the day.

 
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would a laminated map also work?
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A laminated outline showing things like the factory and the club house, busway etc would be a good idea, then you could draw the marks in - I've seen lots of people who do this. Part of the problem is that they move the marks around at Hunts, I think because of weed etc.  The have another area to write down the order of the marks and which side to round them.

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I checked yesterday and it looked as if there was a permanent grid and the marks were drawn around that
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Yes, but ignore the marks painted on to it.  In fact I think I'll see if I can get them removed.
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The marks on the course board are for the old permanent marks which were removed when the lake was dragged as the solution to the weed one year. They would probably require a lo of work sealing them back up and sorting out the anchors to get them back usable so IMO they are unlikely to go back in especially as it looks like dragging will be our only option next year.....
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Laminate a piece of white card, tie a china-graph pencil to it (you can get them for 50p from B&Q I think, though I got mine from eBay) and velcro it to your front bulkhead.

Really simple and really works well- just rub it off with your sailing glove, and it wont smudge if it gets wet.
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For clubs such as Frensham where they use set courses depending on the wind, I carried a pile of overhead projector transparent plastic sheets and a set of cd/dvd marker pens and traced the map of the course which can then be stuck on the white boat. After a few weeks I'd got most of the courses drawn and was able to find them next time they were needed.
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You could also consider http://www.micsltd.com/marinecard/
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