Curious effects of sailing in the cold

Originally posted by PeterG I know I'm a wimp, but isn't the winner the one who stays in the clubhouse eating bacon butties and drinking tea in those conditions?

Depends on the quality of said bacon butty... there are some dreadful attempts at Gods own food in some sailing clubs and others are stupendously marvellous!

Incidentally, the quality of the bacon butty does not necessarily correlate with the membership fee and the number of turned up Joules collars there are in the Galley...

Edited by turnturtle - 19 Mar 18 at 11:53am

I can remember my wetsuit being frozen to the wall of the changing room on the second day of a team racing event once. At Cardiff, I think it was, whatever the small lake was, now possibly gone?

A couple of years ago whilst OOD, I asked the safety boat to whizz round the lake to break the ice, it was about 1/4" thick, seemed like a good idea, until our lee shore wind piled it all up the jetty, we had to drag the safety boat off the water by hand.

Decades ago, when I was much younger, I remember reading in Yachts and Yachting an account of an open meeting for single handed catamarans (I can't remember the class).   I was fascinated because the boots of one of the competitors had frozen to the side of the hull while he was out on the trapeze!
Unfortunately they didn't explain how he resolved this problem.   The only solution that I could think of would be to capsize and hope that the water washing over the boots would release him.
Does anyone else remember this open meeting report?