Dinghy development: Round the Island

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Round the Island

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Topic: Round the Island

Posted By: olly_love
Subject: Round the Island
Date Posted: 04 Jun 06 at 8:15pm

anyone else do round the island.

have some good pics and will post asap

was a bit crap cause of the light winds, but thanks to our navigator we made it round and had the tides with us all the way.

i have never raced a yacht before and got n the boat and immideatle was trimming the jib upwind and doing the kite downwind. was amazing. very nice boat, and hope to see more of hobby horse.

oh and we managed to come 3rd in our class of bout 60 and 36th out of 512 in the irc boats

and bout 36th out of the overall handycaped fleet of bout 1370. we thought that we were doing awful but turned out ok.

and

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TWO FRANK-Hunter Impala

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Posted By: I luv Wight
Date Posted: 04 Jun 06 at 10:41pm

OUT95 had some excitement after the race.

ooops! mind that bowsprit!