No **** Sherlock...
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Topic: No **** Sherlock...
Posted By: JimC
Subject: No **** Sherlock...
Date Posted: 26 Sep 15 at 11:58pm
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BBC report of power station chimneys being demolished...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-34368781 caption on video: "It took just a few seconds for the huge chimneys to come crashing to the ground" Hey, how about that, and I was expecting them to stay suspended in the air for minutes after the charges went off... |
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Posted By: ventus
Date Posted: 27 Sep 15 at 12:14am
| Jim, with this post and your other ones on the noble thread are you sure you haven't been hacked by a certain forum member who very occasionally sails at a large sailing club in the Midlands. |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 27 Sep 15 at 9:27am
| No, I'm about to go to a sailing club... |
Posted By: ventus
Date Posted: 27 Sep 15 at 6:34pm
 
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Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 28 Sep 15 at 1:09pm
touche! ------------- Paul ---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
Posted By: kneewrecker
Date Posted: 28 Sep 15 at 8:09pm
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Can't be me you cads are referring to... Been to our sailing club about 14 times in the past couple of months - initially preparing and practicing for 'the Nationals' at the beginning of September... devastatingly effective given the light winds we got:
http://results.ukwindsurfing.com/2015/nwf-freeride.html" rel="nofollow - http://results.ukwindsurfing.com/2015/nwf-freeride.html Subsequently been working on speed runs ... Smashed 25 knots the other week too, but that's still very much lame duck territory. |
Posted By: kneewrecker
Date Posted: 30 Sep 15 at 1:21pm
cat got your tongue Jim? 
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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 01 Oct 15 at 7:32am
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Probably wondering what windsurfing has to do with going Dinghy sailing? ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: kneewrecker
Date Posted: 01 Oct 15 at 8:30am
| Well in fairness to Jim I don't imagine he holds those traditional stereotypes and superiority complexes over various forms and disciplines of sailing- it certainly wouldn't fit with his own eclectic (and imho very nice) choice in boats. |
Posted By: kneewrecker
Date Posted: 02 Oct 15 at 12:17pm
| sadly I was planning on going to the sailing club tomorrow, but the forecast is crap... so I guess JimC has a point. :-( |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 02 Oct 15 at 8:34pm
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Luckily, I have a boat to finish mending tomorrow, and a hedge to cut! The level 2 course I was going to be teaching has been cancelled, and given the forecast, I'm not too sad. Sunday looks a little better. ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: kneewrecker
Date Posted: 03 Oct 15 at 9:59pm
| 30 miles in the saddle instead today... I thought about looping around the sailing club 10 times to make a point, but it seemed rather pointless when the roads are so nice around here. |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 03 Oct 15 at 10:20pm
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Sounds like hard work to me, would rather be drifting. And not in the car going round corners way, though that too, thinking about it. ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: kneewrecker
Date Posted: 05 Oct 15 at 9:05am
| well I'm not going to pretend it's my favourite sporting pursuit, nor that I represent a very good example of a cyclist; but it sure as hell beats running and it's an utterly hassle free experience as it's 'shed-to-shed' with no added driving and faffing time. |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 05 Oct 15 at 10:22am
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Certainly beats sweating on a static bike in the gym, too. ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: kneewrecker
Date Posted: 05 Oct 15 at 11:30am
| true - but it's not that cold yet, and at least a static bike at the gym has ledge to pop an iPad with some decent downloads on it.... |
Posted By: kneewrecker
Date Posted: 08 Oct 15 at 10:02am
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back at the club yesterday... no dinghies out, but at least 10 windsurfers- not that it makes a difference- it's all sailing isn't it Rupert? It's definitely autumnal out there, I was in a full winter wetsuit (the new O'Neill Psycofreak 5mm) I could really recommend it, nice fit and super flexible.
Anyway, that's my last trip to the club this month- off to California for 2 weeks windsurfing and paddleboarding next week... I doubt I'll sail everyday though, even though the AirBNB is bang on the beach, so I guess Jim still has a point.... |
Posted By: The Moo
Date Posted: 08 Oct 15 at 10:45pm
Just read this and I don't know why but for some daft reason I assumed you were atop a horse. 
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Posted By: kneewrecker
Date Posted: 09 Oct 15 at 9:30am
well I own two... or more correctly put, my wife owns one and my daughter owns one. I rode the bigger one once, to prove I could at least sit atop the stupid beast... hated it, but put on a faux smile for the benefit of family harmony.
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 09 Oct 15 at 10:04am
| The only good reason for owning a nag that I can see is it a good defence when questioned about the amount you spend on you boats/kit. God those creatures are expensive to maintain, as well as being highly dangerous. |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 09 Oct 15 at 11:17am
Unless discussing it with you or grumph, then yes. ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: kneewrecker
Date Posted: 09 Oct 15 at 11:38am
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