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    Posted: 18 Mar 05 at 12:55am
when i was learning to use a kite we rigged it on land and the instructor said it was fine, but when we hoisted it we found we couldn't drop it. We ended up sailing down the menai straits in a F5, with the instuctor in the safety boat trying to re-rig it on the water.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote KnightMare Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Mar 05 at 6:45pm
Oh amusing. funny kite hoists make the best laughs, friend put his kite on sideways and didnt realise till he hoisted it.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote ianwat2212 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Mar 05 at 6:34pm

the tack ripped off my 29er kite once, it fell in the sea on a rubbish drop, filled with waer and ripped all the way across @ the top of the reinforcement, best thing was, we didnt even notice til we went 2 put it up again and found it in 2 bits!

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Post Options Post Options   Quote hydrographer20 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Mar 05 at 5:16pm
hmmm once our spini randomly ripped off one day,  the insurance has a field day coz we sed it like sank but someone found it-  oops!
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Post Options Post Options   Quote KnightMare Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Mar 05 at 5:08pm
Originally posted by Tornado_ALIVE

Originally posted by carshalton fc

why do you have to put sail numbers on spins cos the number of the boat is on the main anyway!!

For the finish bota to record the down wind finish.  A lot of the major events have a downwind finish.

Maybe well we didnt have a down wind finnish at all. all up wind, kinda a hook finnish with a short beat. 

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By then they will been blown out

any wall don't foget to take them off befor you frow them overbord and clame a new one you inshorens will not be impresed if someone finds it and gives it back

 

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Post Options Post Options   Quote Black no sugar Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Mar 05 at 1:46pm
You put the sail numbers on spins so you can find who they belong to when they get washed ashore! 
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Tornado_ALIVE Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Mar 05 at 12:46pm

Originally posted by carshalton fc

why do you have to put sail numbers on spins cos the number of the boat is on the main anyway!!

For the finish bota to record the down wind finish.  A lot of the major events have a downwind finish.

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Post Options Post Options   Quote 5420 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Mar 05 at 7:48am

I bet they shaky after that if they did not capze

 

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Post Options Post Options   Quote Black no sugar Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Mar 05 at 7:36am

He was a moment before where the big splash is now. Lucky for the photographer to get this shot

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