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    Posted: 17 Nov 06 at 6:40pm

... this guy didn't ...

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What boat is that?
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Originally posted by Strawberry

What boat is that?

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ouch that must of hurt his walet! must of been a huge wind
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Originally posted by Guest#260

... this guy didn't ...

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-83235975256723009

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My 14 did an impression of that last year (no damage luckily). I had tied it down to the chain in the boat park too, the boat must have slipped off the trolley from the wind and then been free to blow away.

The method I use now includes attaching the trap wires to the chain too.
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I have two ropes on mine, wot with the mast being so far forward the tie downs at the club aren't ideally placed. I put one across the middle and one that goes round the mast, down to the ground, back up round the mast then back to the start again for tying down.
Most of the boats at my club are tied down with one rope once round the mast then down to the gound at the other side. I've seen a few GP14s do a neat trick where they slowly work their way along the rope so that if they don't make it all the way over they end up suspended at an angle by the tie down rope...
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I have this day picked up our Taser from being blown over, no damage. Such a light boat ! The worst blow over I ever saw at our club was a wooden fireball a few years ago. We had a very windy night and this fireball had been tied down to a ring concreted into the ground. There must have been a huge gust because the boat blew over and pulled the concrete, which was probably 40 kilos, out of the ground where it had been for many years flicking it up into the air where it crashed down onto the boat smashing through both chines and a stringer finishing up under the boat. Good bonfire though. Any other stories?
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off topic somewhat but, while you're about it, service those trailers ... came across a FD (I think) on the verge on the way back from an open this year, where the right hand wheel had snapped off

on a similar vein, we launched the club GP14 through a hedge one year on our way to the Southport 24 Hour Race one year ... didn't quite get the fore/aft trim right ... got through a lot of plastic padding that weekend, and a roasting from the committee when we returned!

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anyone else remember this

 

 

This was lifted from page 17 of the favourite photos thread. There are 2 more photos there.
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