Contender Nationals
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Topic: Contender Nationals
Posted By: Black no sugar
Subject: Contender Nationals
Date Posted: 18 May 05 at 6:25am
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Hiya everyone! Are you going to the Contender Nationals in Porthpean this weekend? It starts on Sat 21st May and ends on Tues 24th. Contender443 will be there, together with the rest of the family. Mike, Matt and all other Contender sailors, are you going? Watch out for the French woman with 2 little girls and a dog, that'll be me ! To everyone else who's staying at home, it's a bit of a respite: I'll be away from my computer for A WEEK !!! We're coming back Friday 27th. Have fun without me XXXIsaJ
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Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 18 May 05 at 10:00am
good lick!! hope he wins!!  ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: Pierre
Date Posted: 18 May 05 at 11:58am
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Good Lick!!!!! What are they doing apart from sailing then? Or shouldn't I ask..... |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 18 May 05 at 1:01pm
sorry i meant!! "luck"    ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: Contender443
Date Posted: 18 May 05 at 2:00pm
No you shouldn't ask ------------- Bonnie Lass Contender 1764 |
Posted By: lemeouttahere
Date Posted: 18 May 05 at 2:03pm
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gigity gigity gigity allllryt
(family guy)
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Posted By: Mike278
Date Posted: 18 May 05 at 5:57pm
I was planning on going, but i couldn't get anyone to tow the boat , but if i get bored i might go anyway------------- Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 18 May 05 at 11:29pm
Please come along, even to watch! With weather forecast, it should be interesting to see from the shore  ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC
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Posted By: Mike278
Date Posted: 18 May 05 at 11:44pm
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I might go, will have to see when i finnish work on friday, but the forecast looks quite good so i'm tempted to stay at home and actualy sail the contender ------------- Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. |
Posted By: Blobby
Date Posted: 19 May 05 at 8:51am
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The boys will be having fun getting the boats up from the beach after sailing...there is a LOVELY huge ramp going down. We did the Tasar nationals there a few years back and it was definitely a case of 3 or 4 people to each boat to get them up and down! Great club though - and the racing area is superb. BNS I take it you will be disappearing off to the Lost Gardens of Helligan too to while away the hours...have fun! |
Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 19 May 05 at 9:15am
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I second that about the ramp at Portpean. The Fireball nats were there
last year when they asked what they could do to improve things....the
unanimous shout was 'Get a winch!'. Aside from that it is lovely to sail in but it gets awfully shifty near the beach (just pray you don't get a south easterly either)... Paul ------------- Paul ---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
Posted By: Matt Jackson
Date Posted: 19 May 05 at 12:49pm
3 or 4 on a Tasar? Jeez that'll be more like 4 or 5 for a Contender then. I went to see the Lost Gardens of Heligan once... I couldn't find it. After an hour driving around the right place we asked someone and they didn't know where it was either but they phoned someone else who did. Fairly impressive but full of (really) old people. ------------- Laser 203001, Harrier (H+) 36 |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 19 May 05 at 2:46pm
Sounds like the whole family is going to have fun! It seems the campsite's only 1 1/2 miles from the Lost Gardens of Heligan... With a bit of luck, I might have located them by the end of the week! I'll be back next week with pictures I hope...
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We're off tomorrow morning, yipee!Posted By: Contender443
Date Posted: 28 May 05 at 10:50pm
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Just got back from Porthpean - you were right about that ramp. And because it had been so wet the compound was very muddy as well. The club is extremely sheltered from the wind so you have no idea that it is blowing 30 knots out there with big waves. Least said about my results the better!! It all started with a broken shroud/trapeze wire after rounding the windward mark in race 1. Lets say I got very wet and was lucky to keep my mast!! Next to go was my halyard and finally my nerve when it was blowing and forecast to get stronger. On the final day the committee boat could not get out of the harbour so we did not get to go out. anyway, next year..... ------------- Bonnie Lass Contender 1764 |
Posted By: Blobby
Date Posted: 30 May 05 at 2:07am
| Sounds like you did well to survive let alone race... |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 30 May 05 at 2:12am
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It was quite windy, even to watch. The beach is rather sheltered, but the open bay was wooooohoooooooo! Besides, the fleet got regularly drenched by refreshing squalls of pelting rain and hailstones... Tough guys, the Contenders.... The rest of Cornwall is gorgeous (well, the bit I saw, on land ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC
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) and I'd love to go there again - no need to take the boat as an excuse though!!! Posted By: hydrographer20
Date Posted: 30 May 05 at 9:22am
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cornwall is very pretty i love all the little coves and things do people on this forum not sleep! seems like everyone is doing the i dont sleep thing! ------------- byte me!- GBR 814 |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 30 May 05 at 9:41pm
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Blobby's in Singapore, 8 hours ahead of us. He's just arrived to the office when we're thinking that bed might be an option after all. I am near Brighton (UK) but I can take as an excuse that I'm not wearing a watch Other people post from the USA, Australia or more exotic places. The sun never sets on the Y&Y forum (sounds like a good slogan! Pity it's already been done ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC
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... )Posted By: Blobby
Date Posted: 31 May 05 at 1:31am
| I am a man ahead of my time...but only 7 hours ahead because you allegedly have summer time happening now... |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 31 May 05 at 8:44am
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The funny thing is, you're contagious! When you reply to a PM, the text of the previous message is included, with the local time you received it. Yesterday, 30th May at 8.30am, I opened the answer of a PM you received on 30th May at 10.16am... Yipeee!! We'ere getting back in time! PS. Can you tell me the winning numbers for the Lottery, pleeeeeeaaaaase? ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC
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Posted By: Calum_Reid
Date Posted: 31 May 05 at 11:25am
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Contender443 on the subject of your breakages at the nationals, atleast it was only your boat that got broken and not u! U didn't see how it happend to the guy that broke his leg did u? ------------- 
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