The Bloody Mary - The Aftermarth!

Originally posted by Rob.e The year Flat Stanley won it (I think) there were about 10 505s at the front, but someone said they'd sailed the wrong course.

As I remember they didn't catch FS anyway. As I remember one of them nearly did when the spinnaker pole froze to the boom and Guy slipped on the ice in the bottom of the boat and put his foot though the transom shouting at Alex to get the kite set...

It was quite unreal that year, it was windy and near zero with a ferocious wind chill. Many boats had a lot of ice. On Flat Stanley, for instance, the kicker purchase was frozen into a single block of ice, and Guy and Alex had ice falling off their clothes every time they moved. The ice was I think about an inch thick on parts of the foredeck and the bottom of the mast...


Edited by JimC

Yes, sorry I wasn't very clear, but my point was the five-ohs were doing OK that year! God it was cold  we had ice all over us: when we got back to the shore, you couldn't walk up the sides of the reservoir 'cos it was all frozen, so they chucked a rope down and winched the boat up with the crew hanging on to the sides. I've never done it since!