The Forum's first birthday
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Topic: The Forum's first birthday
Posted By: Mark Jardine
Subject: The Forum's first birthday
Date Posted: 06 Mar 05 at 7:08am
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Well it has been one year, 1000 members & 10,000 posts. Many, many thanks to Headfry for turning up to the RYA Dinghy Sailing Show with a box of cookies to celebrate the first birthday!!! Here's a pic of Mark and Gael enjoying the present!
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Posted By: TheSeaFalcon
Date Posted: 06 Mar 05 at 8:21am
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Well done!!!! It's a great forum neway!!!
------------- x--x--x<x>x--x--x Topper 41825 Cherub 2539 (going, going and not quite but nearly gone)! |
Posted By: sailor.jon
Date Posted: 06 Mar 05 at 6:44pm
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i thinks the most active sailing forum, the most informative and most important the most fun
------------- Jon Vortex 1169 http://www.yorkshiredales.sc/ - Yorkshire Dales Sailing Club |
Posted By: Wave Rider
Date Posted: 06 Mar 05 at 8:11pm
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Yeah its brilliant ! ------------- -[Franko]- Chew Valley Lake Sailing Club RS600 933 |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 06 Mar 05 at 8:15pm
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It's got only one drawback... it's so much fun posting and replying to messages that I am, literally, Far too distracted from work!! Great forum ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC 
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Posted By: lasergurl
Date Posted: 06 Mar 05 at 8:42pm
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Its never off my computer. i always have it loaded so i can read the posts.. and yachts and yachting is my home page anyway so i'm always online lol ------------- LOOK AT MY PHOTOS!!! http://minimexicola.deviantart.com/gallery ^^ my photography work ^^ |
Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 06 Mar 05 at 9:08pm
i thought i had it bad
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Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 06 Mar 05 at 10:07pm
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i would have thought the forum was older than a year cos of all the members it has and the are still signing on!! keep it going. happy b-day ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: Phil eltringham
Date Posted: 07 Mar 05 at 4:10pm
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Happy birthday!! My the year has gone fast, scary! I did try and say hello over the weekend, it was a bit manic (don't think Gael recognised me tho ------------- FLAT IS FAST! Shifts Happen |
Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 07 Mar 05 at 5:01pm
yea i think mark blanked me on the virtual skipper on sunday was a bit embarrasing
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Posted By: hydrographer20
Date Posted: 07 Mar 05 at 6:37pm
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wow i believe this is the best sailing forum around it makes me laugh and every1 is so helpfull, apart from when u post the specail post no .1
happy 1st birthday ------------- byte me!- GBR 814 |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 07 Mar 05 at 10:38pm
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I've registered with other sailing fora, but they seem pretty tame compared to this one! Mark, Gael and all the others, great work guys! ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC
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Posted By: hydrographer20
Date Posted: 08 Mar 05 at 7:51am
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yes i found wiht other sailing forums that they are not very active and are incredibly boring ------------- byte me!- GBR 814 |
Posted By: Gael
Date Posted: 09 Mar 05 at 6:10am
Sorry Phil  you should have said hi, you could have had one of
Headfry's quadruple choc cookies!!! I'm afraid I was in a bit of a daze all weekend, every way I turned more people... Saturday was sooo busy and somehow I fitting in packing on Friday night... flew out straight after the show on Sunday (to NZ, so noone felt at all sorry for my stressed state!) PS the credit for the forum's creation has to go fully to Mark, all his work... and it's the members that make it what it is. |
Posted By: Harry44981!
Date Posted: 09 Mar 05 at 5:36pm
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the topper class ass. is quite god, but if your not a topper Y&Y is by far the best, really active and interesting- well done guys! ------------- |
it's very bo=ring.Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 09 Mar 05 at 5:38pm
pat on the back to every one!!!!!!! ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 09 Mar 05 at 5:55pm
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what did you fly out for? ------------- http://theramblingsofmyinnergeek.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Brian
Date Posted: 09 Mar 05 at 6:08pm
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its new zealand isnt that excuse enough??? ------------- |
Posted By: hydrographer20
Date Posted: 09 Mar 05 at 6:30pm
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lol lonmg flight isnt it like 24 hours and after just finishing from the show must have been tiring ------------- byte me!- GBR 814 |
Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 09 Mar 05 at 6:37pm
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Yeah i think my friends dad flew out there on weds, and man that was a long flight. ------------- http://theramblingsofmyinnergeek.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: hydrographer20
Date Posted: 09 Mar 05 at 7:08pm
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yeah i can imajine ------------- byte me!- GBR 814 |
Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 09 Mar 05 at 7:10pm
Yeah he was sailing out there.now i rele wish i had an excuse liek that. ------------- http://theramblingsofmyinnergeek.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: hydrographer20
Date Posted: 09 Mar 05 at 7:13pm
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wow sounds nice cause its like summer over there i tihnk ------------- byte me!- GBR 814 |
Posted By: Gael
Date Posted: 09 Mar 05 at 7:31pm
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29 hours from taking off from Heathrow at 8pm on sunday night! But
went sailing with Team new Zealand yesterday in sunshine and 10-12 knots of breeze... made it all worth it 
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Posted By: hydrographer20
Date Posted: 09 Mar 05 at 7:34pm
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wow sailing with team new zealand sounds very flash - lol good wind as well, sounds like a fun weekend to me ------------- byte me!- GBR 814 |
Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 09 Mar 05 at 7:55pm
sounds very good. have fun. not that i need to say that.  ------------- http://theramblingsofmyinnergeek.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Phil eltringham
Date Posted: 09 Mar 05 at 10:12pm
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I kind of did, right at the end of saturday when you came for an amble round the Ovington stand, said Hi, but I was a bit tired & spaced out too, and didn't introduce myself, my fault. Maybe next year if not before. ------------- FLAT IS FAST! Shifts Happen |
Posted By: Gael
Date Posted: 10 Mar 05 at 12:41am
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Ah ha... I sort of place you now, Sorry I was probably not quite my chatty
self. I was having a look at the B14 thinking the racks looked a dran site wider than I remember them being when I used to sail them and thinking how good the boat still looks - they're a lot of fun and so cheap to pick up secondhand, shame more people aren't switched into them. I think that was my first amble anywhere having been on the stand most of the day - I never did get a really good look round... but between us all we went to see every single class at the show. |
Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 10 Mar 05 at 8:59am
| Gael by any chance did u see the hurricane 5.9, with the sx kit on the boat. It was its first proper outing at the show? |
Posted By: Phil eltringham
Date Posted: 10 Mar 05 at 4:37pm
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Well if anyone wants a second hand B14 they better be quick, the class is going through something of a renaissence at the moment, and there are only a couple of second hand boats on the market now. You should come along to an event Gael, there is usually someone looking for a crew. ------------- FLAT IS FAST! Shifts Happen |
Posted By: Gael
Date Posted: 10 Mar 05 at 5:41pm
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Hi Hurricane, no I didn't get out much! But I know one of the team
went to see the Hurricanes. Phil is the class still pretty absent on the female front - when I was doing it it wasn't unusual to be the only girl, and as we shared a circuit with the 49ers, we were a bit outnumbered, not that I'm saying that was a bad thing! |
Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 10 Mar 05 at 5:44pm
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Lol, souds good but slightly intimidating. ------------- http://theramblingsofmyinnergeek.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Phil eltringham
Date Posted: 10 Mar 05 at 11:12pm
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Its definately better than that now, there are a few couples on the circuit now (even more this year I think) and there were a lot of girlies interested in the class at the dinghy show. I have a female crew too (although that is somewhat dependent on finding enough money for her to go to the worlds in Sydney, so any tips on finding a sponsor would be very much appreciated). Proof that girlies do sail B14s - even with me (oh and yes it is my litle ego trip for today, taken on the sunday before the dinghy show, at south shields)
P.S. the walls sticker was there when I go the boat and I can't get it off ------------- FLAT IS FAST! Shifts Happen |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 11 Mar 05 at 1:13am
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Nope, the picture doesn't show on my PC, Phil... Can anyone else see it? ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC
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Posted By: sailor.jon
Date Posted: 11 Mar 05 at 7:36am
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no i can't see it either ------------- Jon Vortex 1169 http://www.yorkshiredales.sc/ - Yorkshire Dales Sailing Club |
Posted By: headfry
Date Posted: 11 Mar 05 at 8:47am
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sadly I also can't see it.
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Posted By: Phil eltringham
Date Posted: 11 Mar 05 at 10:19am
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doh! I think i know what is wrong, but i'm not sure how to fix it. The forum will let you show pics already online but this one is on my hard drive, anyone remember how you upload pictures? Well i've got it as fars as my avatar but you cant really make us out on it. ------------- FLAT IS FAST! Shifts Happen |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 11 Mar 05 at 12:51pm
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so phil was it your boat that was at the boat show? ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 11 Mar 05 at 2:59pm
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no cant rele make much out. but it looks cool. ------------- http://theramblingsofmyinnergeek.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Phil eltringham
Date Posted: 11 Mar 05 at 3:15pm
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wasn't my boat on the stand, but I'm sailing on the one that was on its side over the weekend which will be cool, got to go and get the train south now, see you on monday morning ------------- FLAT IS FAST! Shifts Happen |
Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 11 Mar 05 at 3:24pm
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good luck with you sailing phil ------------- http://theramblingsofmyinnergeek.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 11 Mar 05 at 3:55pm
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so did anyone show off there boat at the boat show? ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: headfry
Date Posted: 11 Mar 05 at 3:58pm
No not quite..... but did buy ( yesterday ) the 400 that was being used for the RYA tuning demo!!does that count? |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 11 Mar 05 at 4:37pm
yer sort of! ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: Brian
Date Posted: 11 Mar 05 at 4:43pm
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heres the pic
sorry to steal ur thunder but better that it is put on by me than not put on at all.... ------------- |
Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 11 Mar 05 at 6:05pm
Lol cool, I was gona show my old boat off but didnt. ------------- http://theramblingsofmyinnergeek.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: hydrographer20
Date Posted: 11 Mar 05 at 6:14pm
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wow thats a pretty cool boat, ------------- byte me!- GBR 814 |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 12 Mar 05 at 10:28pm
yer looks cool but which one is phill? ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: Phil eltringham
Date Posted: 14 Mar 05 at 9:43am
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I'm at the back ------------- FLAT IS FAST! Shifts Happen |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 14 Mar 05 at 11:13am
so are you sponsered by walls ice cream? ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: Phil eltringham
Date Posted: 14 Mar 05 at 4:29pm
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I wish, I do need a sponsor, maybe I should ask them if they will support the boat again. Any other ideas of people who might give me some cash? ------------- FLAT IS FAST! Shifts Happen |
Posted By: Wave Rider
Date Posted: 14 Mar 05 at 4:40pm
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Small companies such as bike or car garages seem to like having their names on a sail and give you money for it !
Well my sail has a bike sponser on it ------------- -[Franko]- Chew Valley Lake Sailing Club RS600 933 |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 14 Mar 05 at 8:05pm
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maybe your work will sponser you if walls did sponser you they should give you one of them things that ice cream vans have that make the silly noises!!! ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: Phil eltringham
Date Posted: 16 Mar 05 at 6:33pm
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Well, here we are, 365 days since i first showed up in here and didn't quite make it to 500 posts, guess thats a good thing really. I'm having a celabratory mug of tea, rock 'n' roll eh?! ------------- FLAT IS FAST! Shifts Happen |
Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 16 Mar 05 at 6:36pm
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Yeah very. good luck with the sponsor thing too ------------- http://theramblingsofmyinnergeek.blogspot.com/ |