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    Posted: 22 Nov 07 at 9:16pm
Forecast is looking like a more reasonable 12-15 knots now so should be much better! Hoping it'll be a bit warmer this week as I think my feet have only just thawed out since last week!!
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It's dropping all the time, now the forcast is 9mph
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that will suit me perfectly, i fly in those kinds of winds in my 300. really looking foreward to this weekends sailing after a stressful week of coursework and ucas form sending off etc.

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SUSA League Weekend 2 this weekend many a forumite in attendance, only one in the gold league tho
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I decided not to team race this year but seem to have been convinced into standing in for one of our guys who cant make it. Fireflies, aberdeen, and snow forcast. WHY!!
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iv never sailed in snow before. does it slow the wind even more than rain does?

i have sailed once in fog and that was rather strange. you lost all sense of direction, epecially as the wind kept shifting about all over the place.

i can imagine hail would be rather painful to sail in, especially if you are going upwind at about 12/14 knots straight into it

what strange weather conditions have people sailed in then?
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RS 400 National Champs at North Berwick in 2004. THICK fog, big breeze and pouring rain for the first 2 days. It was what can only be described as dreich!

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Originally posted by les5269

It's dropping all the time, now the forcast is 9mph

That's OK by me; Hull up downhill and up on the wire. 

(and toi answer another question, Hail hurts like hell going upwind at 15kts !

It's not much fun going back down when the apparent is well forward with the kite up either !

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Originally posted by timnoyce

Forecast is looking like a more reasonable 12-15 knots now so should be much better! Hoping it'll be a bit warmer this week as I think my feet have only just thawed out since last week!!

 

12-15 Is much better for me as well mate but it looks like it is going to be cold!
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Sailing in hail isn't too bad, but I was attacked in a very personal place once by hail - the storm appeared out of nowhere just as I was taking a wee off the back of the transom...
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