Where to sail?
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Topic: Where to sail?
Posted By: olly_love
Subject: Where to sail?
Date Posted: 31 Dec 05 at 4:42pm
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i have just tarted uni at solent. (southampton) and am looking for a place to sail my peniultiamte 14. need to be close cause i dont have a car down there. any ideas ------------- TWO FRANK-Hunter Impala |
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Posted By: Contender443
Date Posted: 31 Dec 05 at 4:55pm
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Weston Sailing Club is good - they sail all winter and have good fleets. They had 7 Contenders out the week befor last - plus a few other boats as well!! ------------- Bonnie Lass Contender 1764 |
Posted By: olly_love
Date Posted: 31 Dec 05 at 4:58pm
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thanks. do they hav anything fast there casue i dont want to be the fastest boat. ------------- TWO FRANK-Hunter Impala |
Posted By: m_liddell
Date Posted: 31 Dec 05 at 5:17pm
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I second Weston. I've heared it has a bad rep for being a bit unfriendly and the club racing is a bit too serious. I bought my 14 from there (GBR1333) and it seemed like a nice club with very active racing. There are 2 older modified/new rules 14's there if I remember but not sure how active they are. You will need a car to get there since it is a 30min drive from where you are in soton. There really isn't anwaywhere closer. I wouldn't worry about the 14 being too quick since there are RS800's, 700's and other high performance kit around though you might be the fastest boat downwind I kept (and still have) my 14 at Tudor SC in Portsmouth since my sister is at uni there and it is 10mins away. It is a pretty small club and it costs us £50 in total each year + harbour fees to keep the boat there and sail. Old 14's make great student boats |
. Since you are a student I would look into how much it will cost to keep your 14 there, it may end up being more than the boat cost you after a few years so watch out! A lot of clubs on the south coast are crazy money as I found out when I started looking with long waiting lists for compund spaces.
Posted By: timnoyce
Date Posted: 31 Dec 05 at 8:10pm
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Netley is also an option. It's on the same piece of southampton water as Weston, just about a mile down the road. That will suit your student budget much better i would have thought and they are a very friendly bunch. There are lots of cats, a few 14's, 9ers, 800's etc so u should have some competition. Not sure what their winter series is like, bit more light hearted than the Weston one though.
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Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 01 Jan 06 at 2:01am
| I've always found Weston friendly as a visitor, and there's certainly little risk of a Penultimate 14 being the quickest boat there... |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 01 Jan 06 at 2:53pm
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Im applying for southampton uni, and solent and when I went to have a
look about weston looked like a nice place but id probibly get drawn to
netley due to the higher student/cherub content there
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Posted By: bigwavedave
Date Posted: 01 Jan 06 at 3:23pm
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I found Weston very friendly when I sailed there. They even let me sleep in my van in the dinghy park, nice bacon sarnies too. The pizza place down the road is really bad. They chucked me out!! ------------- 
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Posted By: olly_love
Date Posted: 01 Jan 06 at 3:33pm
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isis what course are you applying for. i am on yachtmanufacturing and surveying at solent. (the better uni) but applyed for ship science at southampton and yacht and powercraft design at solent. ------------- TWO FRANK-Hunter Impala |
Posted By: olly_love
Date Posted: 01 Jan 06 at 3:35pm
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how far is it from southampton to weston i live near the football gound and have a bike. but no car ------------- TWO FRANK-Hunter Impala |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 01 Jan 06 at 3:54pm
Ship science is my first choice and itsYacht Manufacturing and Surveying ive applied for at Solent ------------- |
Posted By: olly_love
Date Posted: 01 Jan 06 at 4:00pm
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if you are intrested in building and manufactuing of small boats like yachts and dinghys then go to solent if you want to work on tankers and stuff go to southampton. i have mates who have made the mistake on thinking that it would be small boat stuff at southampton. to be honest solent has the better socal life as well. and is nearer the town. ------------- TWO FRANK-Hunter Impala |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 01 Jan 06 at 4:07pm
Ive heard this a lot but southampton just seems to be a more respected course 
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Posted By: olly_love
Date Posted: 01 Jan 06 at 4:10pm
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trust me it isnt. what type of work are you planning to go into. if you ask people in industry you will find that solent is just as good even better. It just looks it becasue they requie more points. ------------- TWO FRANK-Hunter Impala |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 01 Jan 06 at 4:22pm
Maybe, but of the designers I'm familar with John Spencer and Russ Bowler both trained as architects, Farr didn't do a degree at all I don't think, and Paul Bieker, whilst a trained Naval architect, nakes his living from tankers and stuff, so I don't know that its that essential to do a degree in yachts to work with them. And it may make sense not to work with what you most want to do in your spare time... But hey, I'm no career guidance expert (you should see what my "career" is) so I could be talking BS. |
Posted By: olly_love
Date Posted: 01 Jan 06 at 4:35pm
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yea just not my kinda thing. i am more into my dinghy and yacht stuff. not into making loads of money just want to be happy doing what i enjoy. i am also not doing design i am studying the manufacuture and surveying. and the management of it all ------------- TWO FRANK-Hunter Impala |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 01 Jan 06 at 4:35pm
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The Bieker example is kind of what im hoping for in an ideal world, I
think theres a lot more oppertunities to be had and money to be made
working with the tankers etc, but hopefully I can still work with small
boats on the side.
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Posted By: olly_love
Date Posted: 01 Jan 06 at 4:37pm
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it is just personal prefrance. and bit pf prejustice. just have a good look at the course it is a good course. and the lectures are very good. just got grant firth who is very good ------------- TWO FRANK-Hunter Impala |
Posted By: m_liddell
Date Posted: 01 Jan 06 at 4:44pm
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If you want a decent engineering degree go to southampton uni. Ship science despite the name comes under the school of engineering sciences along with mech eng and aero and is an engineering course. For engineering soton uni is one of the best in the country and the department is well regarded. As far as I know the course(s) run at the institute are quite different and I have no idea about it's reputation in the yachting industry or any other. One thing to bear in mind is that the institute has only just got university status with nowhere near the reputation and ranking that the university has which is ultimately what matters. Choose wisely and look at where the graduates from these courses are working. As for how far away Netley/Weston are, you WILL need a car to get there. It's 3 junctions down the M27 from where you will be. |
Posted By: olly_love
Date Posted: 01 Jan 06 at 4:48pm
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That is a valid point but you forget about the warsash campus where there is a large range of enginearing courses that are highly credited. anyway going leave it now. Solent is the best and the v necks Suck ------------- TWO FRANK-Hunter Impala |
Posted By: Dan_K
Date Posted: 01 Jan 06 at 5:11pm
| Im at the uni and saila 49er at weston. its really freindly with a good racing program, you should definatelly join, itd be great to have even more fast boats out! also its a 30min cycle from the uni or 20mins from the institute, so all the talk about needing a car is rubbish!!! |
Posted By: Sarah B
Date Posted: 01 Jan 06 at 7:25pm
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Its really easy to cycle to Weston, there is a short cut for bicycles along the shore. Or even a bus then walk the last bit is possible if you don't have a bike. ------------- A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. |
Posted By: 18footer
Date Posted: 03 Jan 06 at 4:48pm
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From the uni it is a 20 cycle and about 30 home again(more uphill and now knackerd) from the institute it will be like ten min just a hop over the bridge Alex |