What would you save?
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Topic: What would you save?
Posted By: radixon
Subject: What would you save?
Date Posted: 24 Jun 08 at 1:20pm
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Talk about saving your water bottle, now, in the event of a capsize have you been known not to let your bottle drift? |
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Posted By: alstorer
Date Posted: 24 Jun 08 at 1:29pm
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The other week, I noticed from the daggerboard that my bottle was drifting off, so I got my helm to retrieve it as he was swimming.
next time we went over I got elbowed off the board |
Posted By: tmoore
Date Posted: 24 Jun 08 at 2:38pm
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they do look rather nice (and expensive) ------------- Landlocked in Africa RS300 - 410 Firefly F517 - Nutshell Micro Magic RC yacht - Eclipse |
Posted By: GBR884
Date Posted: 24 Jun 08 at 2:42pm
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mmmm nice!! Bet his parents catch him in the water, pick him up in the boat and carry him to the trailer then de-rig his boat for him! ------------- |
......Joke!!Posted By: MRJP BUZZ 585
Date Posted: 24 Jun 08 at 4:21pm
I was at an open once and it was a long day on the water due to missing the previous day due to high wind, i capsized near the begginning and my only water bottle slipped out, i pointed it out to the rescue boat who picked it up and promptly drove away, i never saw that bottle again 
------------- Josh Preater http://www.bu22.co.uk">  BUZZING IS FUN
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Posted By: Villan
Date Posted: 24 Jun 08 at 5:39pm
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Capsised during the first beat at the Tiger this year, was inverted before we knew it. As we righted the boat, I remembered about the bottle of Lucozade Sport and the Mars Bars that I took out with me!! Decided I would rather save the expensive racing spinaker though .. and offered a floating mars bar to the RIB that had come over to us! ------------- Vareo - 149 "Secrets" http://www.TandyUKServers.co.uk" rel="nofollow - TandyUK Servers |
Posted By: timnoyce
Date Posted: 24 Jun 08 at 7:56pm
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Those foils are cool. They weigh naff all too which is rather impressive.
------------- http://www.facebook.com/bearfootdesign - BEARFOOT DESIGN Cherub 2648 - Comfortably Numb |
Posted By: Laser 173312
Date Posted: 25 Jun 08 at 9:02am
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Always attach anything in your boat to the boat. That's what Bungy is for.
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Posted By: winging it
Date Posted: 25 Jun 08 at 9:30am
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At the Bala Easter Regatta during a capsize I fell in between the boom and the cockpit and took my brand new carbon tiller extension clean out of its holey nthing that it slots into.....it sank before I could save it. I was very upset.... I have a biking bottle cage for my drink and my food goes into a bag inside the hatch cover. I do lose my sunglasses fairly often....  ------------- the same, but different... |
Posted By: winging it
Date Posted: 25 Jun 08 at 10:23am
that is a cool hat. If I find it, I'm keeping it....
------------- the same, but different... |
Posted By: MerlinMags
Date Posted: 25 Jun 08 at 4:29pm
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The voice of experience says that electrical tape is not sufficient to secure a Mars bar to a flat surface. (A turn of tape around the mast I believe would be ok.)
Chest pockets (zipped!) are easier to access from a hiked position anyway, and it also keeps those crucial extra grammes further outboard.... |
Posted By: winging it
Date Posted: 25 Jun 08 at 4:40pm
Bonezzi famously ties a banana to his mast... ------------- the same, but different... |
Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 03 Jul 08 at 7:24pm
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i have bungee loops on the inside ends of my 600 racks to tie mars bars, water bottles, and bannanas (possibly, ive never tried it but i suppose it would work) to. i did once try to leave my phone in one of those "waterproof" VHF radio bags on the racks once. this did not work. ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |