bloody mary
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Topic: bloody mary
Posted By: carshalton fc
Subject: bloody mary
Date Posted: 28 Dec 07 at 6:01pm
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who is going to the bloody mary? also does anyone need a crew/helm for it? luke ------------- International 14 1503 |
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Posted By: olly_love
Date Posted: 28 Dec 07 at 6:03pm
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can crew or helm if anyone needs one ------------- TWO FRANK-Hunter Impala |
Posted By: ratface
Date Posted: 28 Dec 07 at 6:04pm
im going in the 5000... so just look for either a big orange kite or a white hull upsidedown  ------------- http://www.blym.org.uk/ - BLYM http://www.blym.org.uk/hydrs/index.htm - Hertfordshire Sailing team Uk-Cherub 2644 Laser 4000 -4089 |
Posted By: HannahJ
Date Posted: 28 Dec 07 at 6:12pm
I WILL get there... hopefully in a Firefly now I can't take the Mirror
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Posted By: Villan
Date Posted: 28 Dec 07 at 6:14pm
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Look for the 5k .. I'll be the one swimming around packing the kite while He ( Ratty ) is up on the board!
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Posted By: A Seabadger
Date Posted: 28 Dec 07 at 8:19pm
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I'll be there crewing RS200. ------------- I don't suffer from insanity...I enjoy every moment of it. |
Posted By: radixon
Date Posted: 28 Dec 07 at 9:13pm
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As per another post, I am going, taking my Laser there, will be on Radial. Might go on the Full depending on conditions. ------------- |
Posted By: Ross
Date Posted: 28 Dec 07 at 9:26pm
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I want to do it but I'm holding out my decision until a few days befor hand so I know if its going to be windy or not.
------------- Ross If you can't carry it, don't sail it! |
Posted By: radixon
Date Posted: 28 Dec 07 at 9:42pm
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Keep an eye on the weather - http://www.windguru.com/int/index.php?sc=77 - here ------------- |
Posted By: Ross
Date Posted: 28 Dec 07 at 9:56pm
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My club is actually a windguru place! I'm watching metcheck atm. I has a 2 week forcast. But a lot of things change in 2 weeks. ------------- Ross If you can't carry it, don't sail it! |
Posted By: MRJP BUZZ 585
Date Posted: 28 Dec 07 at 9:56pm
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I will be there in buzz 585
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Posted By: BBSCFaithfull
Date Posted: 28 Dec 07 at 10:49pm
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I may appear in 1405
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Posted By: Smight at BBSC
Date Posted: 28 Dec 07 at 11:38pm
Maybe i can hitch a lift my bro then though i doubt the skoda's double trailer towing abilities. ------------- RS600 988 |
Posted By: MRJP BUZZ 585
Date Posted: 28 Dec 07 at 11:44pm
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Ah it will if you put your mind to it
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Posted By: stuarthop
Date Posted: 29 Dec 07 at 1:41am
I'll be there if i have a new job (or if i can bribe the crew to pay), i cant afford the £60 fuel plus entry fee until i know when i'm next going to receive a paycheck.  ------------- |
Posted By: Merlinboy
Date Posted: 29 Dec 07 at 9:57am
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I may go to Bloody mary but its a night before job, not driving all that way to find its either Snowing, pissing down, no wind, to much wind etc. etc. ------------- |
Posted By: MRJP BUZZ 585
Date Posted: 29 Dec 07 at 10:39am
What'd you mean it doesn't snow in britain, the best you get is a grey sludge on the floor from hailstones ------------- Josh Preater http://www.bu22.co.uk"> BUZZING IS FUN
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Posted By: tmoore
Date Posted: 29 Dec 07 at 12:59pm
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forgive my ignorance but, when is it, and where? also what is the entry fee? tempted to go in my 300 ------------- Landlocked in Africa RS300 - 410 Firefly F517 - Nutshell Micro Magic RC yacht - Eclipse |
Posted By: alstorer
Date Posted: 29 Dec 07 at 2:43pm
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http://www.queenmary.org.uk/docs/BM_NOR_2008.pdf - Queen Mary SC, on the 12th
Dunno if we're going. Could well be a "if the forecast looks good" desicion. |
Posted By: ratface
Date Posted: 29 Dec 07 at 2:57pm
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tmoore, its a long long way away from you just for a afternoon surely? it being basically in london and you live in wales(?) i hope for a max of 15kts otherwise i may as well just swim it... ------------- http://www.blym.org.uk/ - BLYM http://www.blym.org.uk/hydrs/index.htm - Hertfordshire Sailing team Uk-Cherub 2644 Laser 4000 -4089 |
Posted By: tmoore
Date Posted: 29 Dec 07 at 7:47pm
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being ingnorant in that type of thing i thought it was a weekend event. no harm, i should probs be revising then for a'Levels anywho ------------- Landlocked in Africa RS300 - 410 Firefly F517 - Nutshell Micro Magic RC yacht - Eclipse |
Posted By: Neal_g
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 12:53am
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dont knock the skoda's towing ability my old fabia 1.4 petrol double stacked two l4k's from newcastle to weymouth and back in 2002 no problems.
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Posted By: tmoore
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 12:40pm
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but didnt do a similar trip again ------------- Landlocked in Africa RS300 - 410 Firefly F517 - Nutshell Micro Magic RC yacht - Eclipse |
Posted By: Ross
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 4:20pm
Looking for a minium of 15 knots so I can beat you silly. ------------- Ross If you can't carry it, don't sail it! |
Posted By: ratface
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 4:39pm
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just because youe seen me sail it today you think you will beat me? thankfully you didnt see me hit the tree
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Posted By: radixon
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 5:18pm
Must of been a laugh to watch, you wern't in the 5K were you? As for BM, watch out for the watch towers in the middle of the water!!! ------------- |
Posted By: ratface
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 5:22pm
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was in the 5k and i was on the wire off the racks at the time! boat stopped suddenly i also swing forwards but the boat carried on going ------------- http://www.blym.org.uk/ - BLYM http://www.blym.org.uk/hydrs/index.htm - Hertfordshire Sailing team Uk-Cherub 2644 Laser 4000 -4089 |
Posted By: radixon
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 5:23pm
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:Just goes to check out google earth: Blimey, forget the Watch towers at the edge, watch out for the big rig thinggy in the middle of the water......... ------------- |
Posted By: Ross
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 7:01pm
Only because I can sail the Cherub when the wind gets up and you'll be a ALL over the place. lol. And I sail of 1037, which makes me slower than a laser 3000...HAHAHAHAHAHA ------------- Ross If you can't carry it, don't sail it! |
Posted By: MRJP BUZZ 585
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 7:26pm
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I thought all cherubs sailed off 975, that is the case at our club
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Posted By: Ross
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 7:34pm
I have a small rig Cherub. ------------- Ross If you can't carry it, don't sail it! |
Posted By: ratface
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 7:38pm
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whereas the 5k has a real mans total sail area ------------- http://www.blym.org.uk/ - BLYM http://www.blym.org.uk/hydrs/index.htm - Hertfordshire Sailing team Uk-Cherub 2644 Laser 4000 -4089 |
Posted By: Merlinboy
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 8:32pm
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Hang on at handicap events you must sail off the porpoer published PY 975 not one rule for one and one for another mate! ------------- |
Posted By: Lukepiewalker
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 8:35pm
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The PY's aren't set in tablets of stone, but I would agree that at an open handicap event I would expect all members of a particular class to sail off the same handicap, be it the published one or another assigned by the race officers.
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Posted By: Ross
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 8:39pm
Not if it hasn't been converted. I’m using one wire with sail
area to 90's rules. How can a boat sail off 975 if it hasn't been upgraded to
the 05 rule set? The number was published and this is what the class association has
told me to sail off. If I was sailing a a symetric Cherub, would I sail off 975? ------------- Ross If you can't carry it, don't sail it! |
Posted By: Merlinboy
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 8:53pm
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Yes but is it an RYA approved handicap - No it isn't we had same problem with Merlins, the class has an adjusted handicap for older boats but it wasn't aproved by every club so at handicap events you sailed off current rules.
unfortunately that is the perils of sailing a development class! At the bloody mary i would probably be you would sail off 975! Luke i am fully aware that the PY is what it is but it is what most clubs have to go off, you tend to find that boat PY's are adjusted at individual clubs! ------------- |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 8:54pm
Its completely up to the club... Their game their call. Back in the early days of asymmettrics I remember Hayling Island giving a completely different number to asymmetric and conventional rig boats, which was amusing because there was bugger all difference in speed. The trouble with having a non standard "generous" handicap is explaining it to the competition if you win... Mind you I would have a great deal of trouble justifying 975 for a proper 2005 rules Cherub. It seems rather generous to me. I don't think I'd be happy sailing off that if I owned say Atum Bom... I did some estimates some years ago for what a suitable number might be from the limited data I had... Lets just say that were you to come to my club with a Cherub built for the 2005 rules, as opposed to a conversion, the number I'd suggest to the sailing secretary would mean that you would be looking to be ahead of a 505 to beat it. |
Posted By: Merlinboy
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 9:05pm
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Trouble is if you change the system for one where do you draw the line! Understandable for club racing but not for big handicap races such as the BM, GG, tiger etc etc ------------- |
Posted By: Ross
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 9:17pm
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I'll email the club.
------------- Ross If you can't carry it, don't sail it! |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 9:20pm
I disagree: its always the duty of the race team to make what they see as the best arrangements, bearing in mind organisational difficulties etc. I don't think anyone believes foiler Moths should race off the same handicap as lowriders, and if say Kate, Merlin No 2, were to turn up for the Bloody Mary (don't do it mate, that boat's too precious for a barging match) it would hardly be right for her to start with the latest Merlins. On the other hand it would be a nightmare for the race officer to calculate equitable handicaps for 50 years of development in Merlins, Nationals, 14s and Cherubs, resulting in a different handicap for each boat. But somewhere there has to be a reasonable compromise, and the race team has to call it as they see fit for their circumstances. The biggest challenge of course is justifying custom handicaps to the Laser Sailors who are always ready to blame their handicap after they've luffed and covered each other to the back of the fleet! |
Posted By: Merlinboy
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 9:31pm
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Jim, i absolutly agree but at the bloody mary Changing one handicap wiould cause uproar and probably result in a protest (only if the boat one) and your right it would be a nightmare for the race officer because once you change on class handicap then you WILL have to do it to all the others. Thats development boats for you its a bitter pill to swallow but none the less! ------------- |
Posted By: Ross
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 10:00pm
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How do you work out the start times for a persuit race?
------------- Ross If you can't carry it, don't sail it! |
Posted By: alstorer
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 10:20pm
Basically, the reverse of how you work out corrected times in a normal handicap race. |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 30 Dec 07 at 10:42pm
The easy way is to have a nominal 100 minute race. You then work back from the finish time. Say finish 16:00. PY 1000 takes 100 minutes, starts 14:20. PY 1200 takes 120 mins, starts 14:00, PY 900 takes 90 mins, starts 14:30 and so on. For different length races just do the sums. Oh and you will want to round off all handicaps to the nearest minute or two minutes, depending on how keen you are. Two minutes means less chance of starts overlapping. |
Posted By: radixon
Date Posted: 31 Dec 07 at 2:56pm
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Going on the Handicap thingy, I was at BM last year as shore crew. What happens at the start, I know numbers are displayed but what do they all mean? Oh i am racing a Laser.... ------------- |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 31 Dec 07 at 3:22pm
| Most clubs when running a pursuit race display numebers which signify what the next start is. The details vary enormously so you always need to read the SIs carefully. |
Posted By: MRJP BUZZ 585
Date Posted: 31 Dec 07 at 3:25pm
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When my club does a pursuit when you number gets displayed it is a minute before you start so when your number goes it is your start. But as Jim says you need to check SI to know what the rules are for the event.
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Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 01 Jan 08 at 3:51pm
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Ill be there in the 600 (taped together or otherwise). i have a nasty suspicion that those bright purple streaks of progirp down the side decks will stand out very well when the boat is laying on its side in the water. anyway look out for me and come and say hi! ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: Smight at BBSC
Date Posted: 01 Jan 08 at 4:07pm
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Trying to get up there too mate my red progrip will show up better than your purple ------------- RS600 988 |
Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 01 Jan 08 at 4:20pm
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yah, set up to the tuning guide, i "borowed" a mates rig tension gauge to check all the settings, but the diaonds are just guess work because ive had to adjust the shackle (with a hammer) to get both of them to sit level and i have not had a rig tension gauge available since then. ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: Smight at BBSC
Date Posted: 01 Jan 08 at 4:32pm
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Did you set it up before you first sailed the boat. If not was there a big difference in performance handling etc? ------------- RS600 988 |
Posted By: ratface
Date Posted: 01 Jan 08 at 4:40pm
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think all y&y forumites should take over a certain area of the rigging area at queen mary for the event, that way no wondering around trying to find people all be in one place
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Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 01 Jan 08 at 4:43pm
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Smight, i set the boat up when i got it to the club. i didnt sail the boat before that so i dont know if there was any difference. Ratface, a great idea! who knows queen mary well enough to give us directions as to where to park our boats? ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: Ross
Date Posted: 01 Jan 08 at 5:17pm
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If there was a "who can get in everyones way" competition, you'llwin barton. 5m long and 3m wide. Though I might decide to rig on the horizontal . In which case ill be 3.7m long and over 7m wide. ------------- Ross If you can't carry it, don't sail it! |
Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 01 Jan 08 at 5:51pm
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that makes 14 ft by 7 ft sound quite modest.
------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: Smight at BBSC
Date Posted: 01 Jan 08 at 5:54pm
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Don't worry mike i'll park up next to you and we can rig on our sides too ------------- RS600 988 |
Posted By: ratface
Date Posted: 01 Jan 08 at 6:14pm
actually ross its 3.05 metres wide 
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Posted By: Villan
Date Posted: 01 Jan 08 at 6:19pm
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Well, I think we are aiming to get there about 9:00 .. Look for the 5k! We'll try and keep a few spaces clear either side of us ( Easy done when you are 3.05 meters wide ( just hull ) and need a few ft to walk around it! ) Oh and Ross .. 8.3 meters wide for the 5k if we rigged after " loosing the halyard " ------------- Vareo - 149 "Secrets" http://www.TandyUKServers.co.uk" rel="nofollow - TandyUK Servers |
Posted By: Merlinboy
Date Posted: 01 Jan 08 at 6:45pm
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I am desperate to go, but again it will be a night before job! Hopefully picking the boat back up from Grafham this weekend! we will need loads of room because the 14 has no halyard! ------------- |
Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 01 Jan 08 at 6:48pm
yup, see the PM ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: ratface
Date Posted: 01 Jan 08 at 6:49pm
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so you got your main with a charlie sized hole fixed then?
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Posted By: Lukepiewalker
Date Posted: 01 Jan 08 at 7:15pm
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Do the 14 rules not require sails to be lowerable without capsizing and that....
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Posted By: stuarthop
Date Posted: 01 Jan 08 at 7:19pm
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If i'm there, it'll be a last minute blast down from north wales, and i'll need loads of rigging space too! ------------- |
Posted By: radixon
Date Posted: 01 Jan 08 at 8:06pm
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Its OK, the Lasers get there own rigging/launching area.... On the stones!!! See you there. Not sure what the forcast will be, but this sunday looks windy. ------------- |
Posted By: Merlinboy
Date Posted: 01 Jan 08 at 8:19pm
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yes they do thats why when you pull a bit of string at the bottom of the mast it realese the pin holding the main at the top of the mast and you can lover the sails, simple!
No not yet i dont think mate! going to have to use the pinhead! ------------- |
Posted By: Lukepiewalker
Date Posted: 01 Jan 08 at 8:41pm
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Aha.... cunning.... I'll shut up now.... Although obviously I would be able to find these things out if someone gave me my own fourteen... anyone... anyone..... Oh well... ------------- Ex-Finn GBR533 "Pie Hard" Ex-National 12 3253 "Seawitch" Ex-National 12 2961 "Curved Air" Ex-Mirror 59096 "Voodoo Chile" |
Posted By: Merlinboy
Date Posted: 01 Jan 08 at 9:34pm
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You can have 1502, i will swap it for £6,500. ------------- |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 01 Jan 08 at 9:41pm
Its wise for Cherubs to arrive early so that you can rig up on the end of the bund. I used to drop my boat off the night before to get a good spot. The year Flat Stanley won Guy was late arriving, and we had to carry her shoulder high through the dinghy park over everything and everyone, which was a bit of a game! |
Posted By: Ross
Date Posted: 02 Jan 08 at 2:55pm
Got a crew? ------------- Ross If you can't carry it, don't sail it! |
Posted By: Ross
Date Posted: 03 Jan 08 at 12:59am
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Is anyone else checking the long range forcast several times a day?
------------- Ross If you can't carry it, don't sail it! |
Posted By: Merlinboy
Date Posted: 03 Jan 08 at 8:36am
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Nah i will check the night before and decide whether we are going or not! ------------- |
Posted By: stuarthop
Date Posted: 03 Jan 08 at 10:37am
Yeah got some 29er sailer who thinks he's pretty good crewing...the t*t who sleeps in the room next to mine... My brother is crewing ------------- |
Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 03 Jan 08 at 4:22pm
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enlighten me, has it dropped since the last time i looked at it? (28mph) ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: Villan
Date Posted: 03 Jan 08 at 7:02pm
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Nope 32 mph by the forcast I check!! The day after it is 12 mph .. so we can all cross our fingers and hope for that! ------------- Vareo - 149 "Secrets" http://www.TandyUKServers.co.uk" rel="nofollow - TandyUK Servers |
Posted By: FireballNeil
Date Posted: 03 Jan 08 at 7:04pm
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whats wrong with 28?
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Posted By: BBSCFaithfull
Date Posted: 03 Jan 08 at 8:01pm
The insurance bill, and the fact that the resovoir is just a huge concrete bowl. and lots of boats to hit/avoid! Alex ------------- Greatfully Sponsored By www.allgoodfun.com Int 14 GBR 1503!! |
Posted By: Smight at BBSC
Date Posted: 03 Jan 08 at 8:08pm
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And the fact that i'm going to be there ------------- RS600 988 |
Posted By: Villan
Date Posted: 03 Jan 08 at 8:14pm
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Indeed. Bearing away into a moored dredger thingy ( whatever it is .. something to do with the concrete place ) in 28 knts is a bad move ... as is trying to get all the boatd rigged / launched without too many capsises by the slipways. Eh Luke! Rather embarasing, eh? ------------- Vareo - 149 "Secrets" http://www.TandyUKServers.co.uk" rel="nofollow - TandyUK Servers |
Posted By: ratface
Date Posted: 03 Jan 08 at 8:18pm
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i remember that well... just hope that the winches dont break this time! be a pain to pull the 5k(if we use it) back up with 30kgs+ of lead in the boat! ------------- http://www.blym.org.uk/ - BLYM http://www.blym.org.uk/hydrs/index.htm - Hertfordshire Sailing team Uk-Cherub 2644 Laser 4000 -4089 |
Posted By: Villan
Date Posted: 03 Jan 08 at 8:25pm
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And thats another reason I want there to be about 10 mph! So we can use the 5k!! ------------- Vareo - 149 "Secrets" http://www.TandyUKServers.co.uk" rel="nofollow - TandyUK Servers |
Posted By: Ross
Date Posted: 04 Jan 08 at 1:03am
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I WANT 20mph MINIMIUM!!!!! ------------- Ross If you can't carry it, don't sail it! |
Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 04 Jan 08 at 6:15pm
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i can just about handle 20mph i think, 25 maybe pushing it, but whatever it is, i will at least try to launch if ive begged a lift up there. ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 04 Jan 08 at 9:28pm
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no i was fine if i remember i stayed dry and made my crew swim round onto the dagger board, that way to do it!! ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: Neal_g
Date Posted: 05 Jan 08 at 11:34am
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looks like a drifter for the bloody mary according to windguru ------------- (Redoubt Sc) Miracle 4040 GP14 13407 Crewsaver phase 2 range now available to buy online on at http://www.gibsonsails.com |
Posted By: Villan
Date Posted: 05 Jan 08 at 3:56pm
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Hmmm .. Thats not such a bad thing ... 5 mph according to Metcheck, and as long as it doesnt rain all day, it will be a good event! ------------- Vareo - 149 "Secrets" http://www.TandyUKServers.co.uk" rel="nofollow - TandyUK Servers |
Posted By: Ross
Date Posted: 05 Jan 08 at 5:34pm
------------- Ross If you can't carry it, don't sail it! |
Posted By: MRJP BUZZ 585
Date Posted: 05 Jan 08 at 5:58pm
I'm with ross, that is no where near enough wind ------------- Josh Preater http://www.bu22.co.uk"> BUZZING IS FUN
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Posted By: Villan
Date Posted: 05 Jan 08 at 6:17pm
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Well, 5 mph vs the 38 that was forcast a few days ago ... I knwo how I'd rather spend a day sailing out of those 2 options! ------------- Vareo - 149 "Secrets" http://www.TandyUKServers.co.uk" rel="nofollow - TandyUK Servers |
Posted By: Ross
Date Posted: 05 Jan 08 at 6:38pm
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38 all the way! The Laser 3000 would go like stink and still be manageable. ------------- Ross If you can't carry it, don't sail it! |
Posted By: ratface
Date Posted: 05 Jan 08 at 6:42pm
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all about sailing toppers in 38mph! ------------- http://www.blym.org.uk/ - BLYM http://www.blym.org.uk/hydrs/index.htm - Hertfordshire Sailing team Uk-Cherub 2644 Laser 4000 -4089 |
Posted By: Villan
Date Posted: 05 Jan 08 at 6:43pm
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exactly!
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Posted By: Ross
Date Posted: 05 Jan 08 at 6:46pm
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You sail your topper, I'll come SCREAMING past you and you'll be sitting there with your arse hanging in the water wishing you were me
------------- Ross If you can't carry it, don't sail it! |
Posted By: MRJP BUZZ 585
Date Posted: 05 Jan 08 at 6:51pm
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I know exactly which windstrength i wanted out of those two, the 38. Its on the limit but i reckon i would take the buzz out, mind you i havent ever seen queen mary so i won't say too much yet ------------- Josh Preater http://www.bu22.co.uk"> BUZZING IS FUN
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Posted By: ratface
Date Posted: 05 Jan 08 at 6:51pm
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a girly scream by any chance? or scream because you just pi**ed it in and its cold? just dont elbow the other person in your boat ------------- http://www.blym.org.uk/ - BLYM http://www.blym.org.uk/hydrs/index.htm - Hertfordshire Sailing team Uk-Cherub 2644 Laser 4000 -4089 |
Posted By: Ross
Date Posted: 05 Jan 08 at 6:58pm
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It wasn't an elbow, more of a punch (accidental btw). Mabne THUNDERING is a better term to use. The 3000s hull is a bit floppy and it acts like a drums skin if it's a bit choppy and your travling at "speed".
------------- Ross If you can't carry it, don't sail it! |
Posted By: stuarthop
Date Posted: 05 Jan 08 at 7:23pm
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anyone got a link to the weater forecasts for qm i'm too lazy to search for them ------------- |
Posted By: Neal_g
Date Posted: 05 Jan 08 at 7:29pm
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http://www.windguru.com/int/index.php?sc=77 - http://www.windguru.com/int/index.php?sc=77 there you go stu you live in wales what else is there to do? forecast has picked up a bit now just shows how much of a science it is lol
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Posted By: stuarthop
Date Posted: 05 Jan 08 at 7:37pm
Thanks neal, not a lot to do in wales really, though i did take advantage of those big lumpy things it rains over and went mountain biking today..sailing tommorow. that forecast looks pretty nice to me, expect to see me there in Atum Bom. ------------- |
Posted By: stuarthop
Date Posted: 05 Jan 08 at 7:52pm
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Why...why...why the crews dropped out. need to find a crew now ------------- |
Posted By: Neal_g
Date Posted: 05 Jan 08 at 7:53pm
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yeah i suppose you got hills to drive over or bike down if you like getting muddy and wet lol. if the forecast stays around 10 knots i'll be there in suicide blonde ------------- (Redoubt Sc) Miracle 4040 GP14 13407 Crewsaver phase 2 range now available to buy online on at http://www.gibsonsails.com |