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Hobbo 
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 Topic: Who was out this weekend?.....Posted: 19 Jul 07 at 5:46pm |
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Had an awesome sail on Wednesday evening - Force 4, 2-3 foot swell and the sunshine. 'Tis what sialing is all about. As soon as we cleared the harbour arm we started to pull away and had a comfortable lead on the rest by the windward mark - admittedly the next fastest boats were a Merlin and a Phantom
 . Our pointing is still gash but we *may* have a solution to that - will have to try it in the practice race of the nationals  . Unfortunately no reaching mark but the run was good practice surfing straight downwind. Stretched lead all the way round, howeveer we did three laps before returning to the harbour instead of two, though luckily the race officer was finishing everyone at the downwind mark as he knew we hadnt got the shorten message. Dipped what we thought was the finsihed then went back out to sea for a rather rapid kite reach over to a capsized 'ball before returning to the harbour. Came 3rd overall on handicap although the Phantom who wins reckons that might not be right and that we should ahve won - don't really mind as it was great sailing and perfect final sail at Shoreham before the nats.
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redback
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Posted: 22 Jul 07 at 11:52pm |
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Wind full of holes and shifts on the Medway this weekend. We've had 3 weeks off from sailing and so we were a bit rusty in the 1st race and capsised soon after the start when hit by a gust with the kite up. Still we faught our way back and caught and past most boats in the fleet by the finish. We came about half way on handicap. All together a more promising start for the second race when we, a 3000 and a 800 left the rest of the fleet in a hole on the start line. The 800 got past us after about a kilometre but the 3000 dropped back. We thought we had it made but the next leg was deep and the 3000 and a couple of 29ers could plane when it was marginal for us and they caught us. For the rest of the race we had a battle with them and a Vortex. We weren't really powered up enough and one 29er got ahead and we couldn't quite catch them by the finish. Again we finished in the middle of the fleet. It has to be force 4 for the 4000 to do well and the lightwieghts do well compared with us in the f3s. If only we weren't carrying all this lead which also makes it very hard to drag the boat up the beach. |
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Posted: 23 Jul 07 at 5:37pm |
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Thanks Lancing sailing club for an extremely friendly welcome to our first L2 open, we didn't come last, good result.
 Loads of tips and help from all the L2 sailors and thanks BNS for saying Hello, great club  .
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Villan
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Posted: 05 Aug 07 at 9:14pm |
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Yes, RS200 .. Grafham .. Wind.
Wow. Tuning a brand new boat up from scratch .. and then sailing it the next day ...... Thundering up and down Grafham, and only 2 capsises/inversions to show from it Luckily all the action happened in the deep parts .. But wahhhhey was it fun! Simon .. Nice meeting you, and thats a hell of a nice boat you've got yourself there! Only regret this weekend .... Forgetting my GPS! |
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English Dave
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Posted: 06 Aug 07 at 10:32am |
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My crew gave me a call midday Sunday. He lives in Belfast, me just by the club in Ballyholme. There wasn't a breath in Belfast and none forecast. Plus, it was pouring! "Shall we bother?" "Sure" says me, "the branches are twitching (there's a tree across the road that is an excellent anemometer) and we need the practice". By the time we launched at 1.30 it was blowing F5 (gusting F7) and there was huge swell. European Champs are next week so not breaking the boat was the order of the day. The tight reaches were scary as we doing close to 20kts while trying to negotiate a 30 strong Laser fleet |
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radixon
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Posted: 06 Aug 07 at 3:51pm |
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Was I out! Hell yes! Was the MSC Cadet Week all last week, sailing Mirrors with 8-10 year olds, great fun, and a 2nd for my kids in the long distance race (kids helming, me as tacktical navigator!!) The Saturday bought on the Cadet Regatta with wind galorre, Picos and Toppers upside down for me and my Rib crew to rescue just so glad it was warm. Sunday, normal club racing and again wind, Laser reaching to the extreme, great fun. Monday (today), resting from the weeks events and counting the bruises, Mirrors have beaten me up! |
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Scooby_simon
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Posted: 06 Aug 07 at 3:55pm |
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Thanks; The GPS was needed for the last run. Shift and Gust; last downwind leg I gybe set at the windward mark, yet, was pushed below the mark and had to drop the kite to make it. Shame the GPS had turned it's self off ! |
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Fans1024
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Posted: 06 Aug 07 at 6:42pm |
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Went back home to cornwall for a weekend. Rented a L3000 with my bro. Prefect day for sailing; f4 gusts of f5, small waves and blue skies. Having not sailed with my bro for over a year or more... and the fact that my trap experiance is some what limted... but we still went like hell. Sure, I have several bruises from slamming into the shourds a couple of times. Constant planning, surfing waves... still can't stop grinning. Oh then we lost the rudder. Suddenly 'rudderless sailing' comes into use, although I dont think it was intended to sail 1/2 mile or more without a rudder.
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Villan
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Posted: 11 Aug 07 at 8:16pm |
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Datchet in the Spice ... Was fun!
Admittedly I spent about 40 mins in a topper, but it was fun sailing through the wash from the outlets into the resevoir. ( in both boats ) Didn't actually realise there was anything like that there ... Until we bore away while twin wiring ... And saw a mound of frothy water about 5 boat lengths ahead ... And felt the boat speed drop right off! GPS recorded a max speed in the morning of 9.4 mph, and the afternoon of 10.9 mph ... Not bad considering it was so light! The fireball wouldn't have been any fun in that little wind though .. so it was good that we didn't take it. ( Would have been a little cramped as crew wouldnt have been wiring without me sitting t'other side ) James |
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Contender443
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Posted: 12 Aug 07 at 7:38pm |
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Well today is known as the glorious 12th and the grouse got a days reprieve (well it is Sunday afterall and it is not fair to shoot the little blighters while they are praying). So I went sailing instead on the Contender. Force 4 in the morning and I came 3rd (and not out of 3 either!!). Pretty good sail but I had a lot of weather helm due to a lifting rudder that is difficult to get at the right angle. Then swapped to a fixed rudder in the afternoon and the weather helm disappeared. Just as well as the wind picked up to a F5/6 and I was flying - got a 2nd. What a glorious day it was and I now ache all over and especially my right arm (too much pumping on the starboard reach!!) Why can't all days be like today???? Edited by Contender443 |
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