Boat show 2005
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Topic: Boat show 2005
Posted By: headfry
Subject: Boat show 2005
Date Posted: 04 Jan 05 at 11:03am
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Hi, Who is off to the boat show this year? and what are you looking for? Will Y+Y be there? Do any forum members meet up there or is that a bad idea? |
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Posted By: Lucy Lee
Date Posted: 04 Jan 05 at 11:23am
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We'll be doing the 'Battle of the Classes' which apparently is going to be a dinghy race on Victoria Dock on the second weekend. Now I've sailed on Victoria Dock, It is very long & thin and surrounded by skyscrapers, so the wind is a tad shifty. Do come & say hello, we'll be in a blue & red striped boat with a heart on the sail! ------------- Fly Cherub! |
Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 04 Jan 05 at 1:48pm
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hey! im going on the 16th and should be meeting up with hurricane!
Lucy lee, i will look out for you! Headfry, i think it would be cool, if some forum member were to meet up, i don't know about you guys, but i have an image of what i think people on the forum look like! would be fun to see anyone.....is any one up for that or is it a stupid idea?????? ------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 04 Jan 05 at 2:09pm
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I'll be there on the afternoon of the 13th I hope. ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: headfry
Date Posted: 04 Jan 05 at 2:30pm
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I will be there Saturday 8th, It would be a nice idea, though the show runs for a week and people have different days that they are able to attend. Be good if the Y+Y stand had a 'forum' visitors book on their stand, at least we could see who has been or see who is around. What about a meeting up time on each day for 'forum'ites' say 11am or 3pm each day at the Y+Y stand, though I guess the guys at YY would be very busy and not want their pitch being used as 'meeting corner' we could wear a pink carnation!!!! |
though as said, it would be nice to put faces to some crazy names.Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 04 Jan 05 at 2:39pm
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well there is going to be a tornado sport racing in the battle of the classes TORNADO vs OPPY can anyone confirm if this has been done before?? should be aN awsome race!!! my moneys on the tornado |
Posted By: Pierre
Date Posted: 04 Jan 05 at 2:43pm
Might not be as easy as you think....good handicap on a well sailed Oppy and if they have the breeze to start and it dies later on then it could be close. There's not much space in those docks |
Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 04 Jan 05 at 2:47pm
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well knowing the guys sailing the torndo they wont do to badly, but on handicap doesnt the oppy have to start 2 hours and somthing before the tornado as its a persuit race or will they half the times as its a winter race?? imagine the monster windshadows in the dock, i will talk to them and find out if they are going to fly the kite lol wouldnt that be fun!!!! |
Posted By: Barty
Date Posted: 04 Jan 05 at 2:53pm
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I think we should demand a Y&Y forum users lounge, like the RYA one. What should it have in it though? (Apart from Playmobil boats and a bath!!!!) ------------- http://www.highlandtopper.com - For Topper boats & spares in Scotland-highlandtopper.com |
Posted By: headfry
Date Posted: 04 Jan 05 at 2:58pm
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New mouse mats, as I am sure ours must be badly worn by now |
Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 04 Jan 05 at 4:01pm
hahaha!!! hurricane, i'm thinking the oppy is soooooo going win!!  actually i just want it to, but your probably right, the tornado will most likely do better.
Headfry, i think that is a good idea 11am and 3pm at y&y stand, we wouldnt have to be right on the stand if they were busy! Is anyone else going on the 16th????? ------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: Harry44981!
Date Posted: 04 Jan 05 at 4:15pm
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I don't think i'm goin to the boat show (i'll be sailing), probably going to the dinghy show though. ------------- |
Posted By: headfry
Date Posted: 04 Jan 05 at 4:51pm
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Possibly best to have just one time during the day to hang around Y+Y, Don't want to upset the Y+Y guys, and most people will be busy looking at all the goodies on offer, anyway I need lots of time to drool over the 400's How will we spot a fellow poster? What are the views of others?
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Posted By: headfry
Date Posted: 04 Jan 05 at 4:55pm
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PS Gael what are your thoughts on this, is it a bad idea form your point of view? I do think we would only appear in ones and twos. It would also be nice for us to meet you guys too. |
Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 04 Jan 05 at 5:12pm
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lol, Suck up headfry!!!!
Should we wear something of the same colour? i dont want to suggest something and people think im insane! ------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: Harry44981!
Date Posted: 04 Jan 05 at 5:15pm
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write your forum name on your forehead
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Posted By: headfry
Date Posted: 04 Jan 05 at 5:17pm
are we not all a touch insane,  go for it....suggest away!
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Posted By: Harry44981!
Date Posted: 04 Jan 05 at 5:20pm
you could wear a watch on each wrist?- at the risk of looking as crazy as we all are! ------------- |
Posted By: Garry
Date Posted: 04 Jan 05 at 5:32pm
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Print out your avitar about 1cm - 2cm square. stick it on a piece of card attach to a safety pin with tape and hey-presto you have a lapel badge. Alternatively wear a white carnation
I think, given the number of days London is over and the size of Excel you'd be lucky to bump into many forum members by chance - better to arrange to meet at a specified time in the BAR . I expect to be there late morning on the 12th. Probably more chance of bumping into people at the dinghy show.------------- Garry Lark 2252, Contender 298 www.cuckoos.eclipse.co.uk |
Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 04 Jan 05 at 6:19pm
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ummmm, does everyone have one of them really ugly yellow sailing watches?????we could wear them??!!!!!!!!!!! ------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 04 Jan 05 at 6:46pm
Excuseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee me! Did you just call the fashion statement that is the big yellow watch ugly!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!
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Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 04 Jan 05 at 6:51pm
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Lol! Yessssss i did! they aren't fashionalble anymore, you have to have a sea path-finder watch now! omg, get with the times!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (onyl joking!)
Oh yeh and i do believe dubarry boots are now a fashion statement! ------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 05 Jan 05 at 1:14pm
| I suggest wearing a Y&Y sticker on your forehead to identify yourselves as forum members! I'll be there until end of Thursday 13th if you want to say hello. Identify me as the person going 'Excellent' most of the time! |
Posted By: Lucy Lee
Date Posted: 05 Jan 05 at 1:39pm
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OK now I'm really scared. I have a nasty vision of avatar-badge and forehead-sticker wearing crazies in Dubarry boot with huge yellow watches on each wrist saying 'excellent' chasing each other round Excel after a long stint at the bar! Sounds like a fine plan. I'll be the one in a Cherub hoodie, no suprises there then! ------------- Fly Cherub! |
Posted By: headfry
Date Posted: 05 Jan 05 at 2:19pm
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and don't forget those carnations!!!! I think we will fit in just fine with all the other show go'ers, and will blend in well with the general crowd |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 05 Jan 05 at 2:39pm
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How about a "Y" a La Rimmer ? ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 05 Jan 05 at 4:15pm
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Scooby-Simon......?????what????? ------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: 3600Matrix
Date Posted: 05 Jan 05 at 4:34pm
| who never watched Red Dwarf then?? |
Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 05 Jan 05 at 4:38pm
Me  ------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 05 Jan 05 at 5:08pm
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omg where were u wen you were young!!! hehee
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Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 05 Jan 05 at 8:18pm
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http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/ - http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/ ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 05 Jan 05 at 8:24pm
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ok alittle off the sailing forum but best sitcom? my vote goes with the office |
Posted By: Harry44981!
Date Posted: 05 Jan 05 at 8:40pm
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friends. best comody has to go to little britain. ------------- |
Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 05 Jan 05 at 8:42pm
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father teds quite good!!! |
Posted By: Harry44981!
Date Posted: 05 Jan 05 at 8:47pm
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black books? ------------- |
Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 05 Jan 05 at 8:53pm
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Friends is the best!!!!!!!! and No way little britton. it was funny once but no more! friends is so much better but can we get back to sailing! ------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 05 Jan 05 at 9:00pm
| btw little britain isnt a sitcom!!!! |
Posted By: Harry44981!
Date Posted: 05 Jan 05 at 9:34pm
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yes i sed comedy not sitcom. Little Britain is sooo funny, but the 2nd series didn't live up 2 the hype. Sailing oh yes eh hem.... ------------- |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 06 Jan 05 at 8:30am
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Blackadder is the best by far. Funny, provoking and I bet anyone who has seen the last episode will remember it for a long time. ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 06 Jan 05 at 5:35pm
very good point
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Posted By: Rob.e
Date Posted: 06 Jan 05 at 8:40pm
| Never mind comody and sit-coms, we've got our own soap: picture the scene as Sailor girl and Hurricane finally(?) meet...their eyes lock across a crowded stand, they stumble to each other in thier Dubbarrys, arms weighed down with yellow watches, the perspiration making the stuck-on "Y" on their foreheads wilt. Where will this lead? Watch this channel for another gripping episode! |
Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 06 Jan 05 at 9:07pm
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LOL loving it!!! you could make it a bit more romantic though! ------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 06 Jan 05 at 9:18pm
| excuse me i happen to think i will be the best dressed at the show a kind of rimmer (red dewarf) crossed with capt birdeye 2005's best look!!!!!! |
Posted By: headfry
Date Posted: 07 Jan 05 at 9:31am
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LOL..... What are you calling this new soap? any parts going? |
Posted By: Pierre
Date Posted: 07 Jan 05 at 4:55pm
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Went to the Boat Show last night. Not bad at all. Saw the new VAGO. It would sink if I got on it. Great live band on the Sunseeker stand. |
Posted By: Lucy Lee
Date Posted: 07 Jan 05 at 5:04pm
You should offer to race it in the battle of the classes, that'll make their PR people really happy! ------------- Fly Cherub! |
Posted By: headfry
Date Posted: 07 Jan 05 at 5:07pm
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Guess that was the best thing on the Sunseeker stand then, always wondered as to the point of their stand - now I now - it's a stage!! sorry, most unlike headfry, but it had to be said! |
Posted By: Pierre
Date Posted: 07 Jan 05 at 5:22pm
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Was asked by Sunseeker to leave their champagne bar at closing time after a friend and I had a couple of bottles..... We'd just got comfortable as well. Sunseekers are definitely an "Essex" boat... |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 13 Jan 05 at 12:46pm
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Change of plan for me, after a nightmare week on-call ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: Phil eltringham
Date Posted: 13 Jan 05 at 3:40pm
Whish I could go but have an exam on monday so have to sit at home and stare at notes on economics management  ------------- FLAT IS FAST! Shifts Happen |
Posted By: Brian
Date Posted: 13 Jan 05 at 4:59pm
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ill be there....... NEXT year...*sighs* ------------- |
Posted By: headfry
Date Posted: 13 Jan 05 at 5:23pm
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Hi don't get upset..... there is the Dinghy Show in March and the Southampton Boat show in September ( I think) I bet there are a few more events around too. Southampton is good fun as you can have a go on some of the boats, ribs etc ( out on the water type of 'go on' ) |
Posted By: Brian
Date Posted: 13 Jan 05 at 5:26pm
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yeah i might go there aswell.... there is a boatshow in dublin some time in
feb which ill probly go up to...*over-dramatic sigh* ... dont wo-worry ab- bout it i... ill be ok... ------------- |
Posted By: Garry
Date Posted: 13 Jan 05 at 8:45pm
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Brian
If you can get a cheap flight to Bristol the day I'm going to the Southampton Boatshow I'll give you a lift there and back! ------------- Garry Lark 2252, Contender 298 www.cuckoos.eclipse.co.uk |
Posted By: Rob.e
Date Posted: 13 Jan 05 at 9:16pm
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Trouble is , if he's a teenager, he might spend the whole drive saying "Are we nearly there yet?" Or is that pre teens? Better off going to the Dinghy show, Brian, there aren't many dinghys at Soton, and most of it's outdoors, and this year it rained on me all bleedin' day!
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Posted By: Garry
Date Posted: 13 Jan 05 at 9:51pm
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I have four teenagers, so plenty of experience in that department. ------------- Garry Lark 2252, Contender 298 www.cuckoos.eclipse.co.uk |
Posted By: Brian
Date Posted: 14 Jan 05 at 8:15am
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na i hav exams this year so sposed to be studying blah blah blah (as if!)
but next year i hav sort of a... how should i put it, less academic year so ill hav loads of time for shenanigans like that. ------------- |
Posted By: Rob.e
Date Posted: 14 Jan 05 at 4:16pm
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Four teenagers? And you're 6 months younger than me! Still, if any of them are girls you could set them on Brian, keep him in order! I used to sail a Lark, 2195 it was, back in the 80's. Only did one open, at one of the big reservoirs, in survival conditions; good fun! We finished about mid fleet, but never really worked out how to make it go, so we gave it up. I was thinking about getting one to sail with the girlfriend now they are doing so well. |
Posted By: Garry
Date Posted: 14 Jan 05 at 5:57pm
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Rob
I would recommend them - great fun - friendly class ass. - and I think Sarah (Nat Champ) won the Pico pool sailing at the boatshow - see the website: www.larkclass.org ------------- Garry Lark 2252, Contender 298 www.cuckoos.eclipse.co.uk |
Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 14 Jan 05 at 6:06pm
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sorry to change the subject, where can i get the best directions to the boatshow online?? ------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: redback
Date Posted: 14 Jan 05 at 7:30pm
| Try this http://www.excel-london.co.uk/excelv2/getting_here/index.html - http://www.excel-london.co.uk/excelv2/getting_here/index.htm l |
Posted By: Garry
Date Posted: 14 Jan 05 at 7:56pm
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The Y&Y issue with the review had very good directions in it. I went on the DLR - very easy...but who drives the trains?
------------- Garry Lark 2252, Contender 298 www.cuckoos.eclipse.co.uk |
Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 14 Jan 05 at 8:07pm
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ok, cool thanks guys! ------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: Brian
Date Posted: 14 Jan 05 at 9:59pm
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garry imho i seriously doubt ur daughter/s (if u hav any that is) would go anywhere near me with an 18'skiff ------------- |