Bloody Mary 2013

http://enter.sailracer.org/events/enter-multi.asp?eventid=51516

yep- stay there Graeme, it looks like a miserable excuse for an event.  Crap launching.  Crap racing.  300 of the most insane dinghyists - including women, who neglect the fact that sailing is traditionally a summer pursuit for gentlemen.  Barely a degree or two over freezing, not to mention a slightly northerly looking wind chill to make sure that no matter how many doses of hardenthefuc&up you've taken, you'll still come on here Monday morning to bloat the forum with more 'crap gloves' threads and vapourware about some new hand warming design you're envisioning.  

8 Devoti Ones clogging up the lanes and moaning like a bunch of school girls that you're breaking the rules if you luff them (edit: not sure it was the D-Ones who started that, but we can hardly pin it on iCon sailors can we...) Not to mention Phantom sailors wet farting in the changing rooms, then laughing about it as the fungal aroma of two Ginsters slices at 7:30 in the morning takes hold of their intestines- and everyone else's nasal passages.  I guess at least it will kill off the Norovirus that's bound to lurk amongst that many 'outdoor types' in the middle of January in a damp room full of damp kit.   

And then you've got the mothies... cheeky sods who stay in the warm until the last minute, blast around the lake for five minutes and clean up.  Frankly it was only just bearable when the stupid sods weren't awarded a finish a few years ago.  What next, cats... jetskis... Basher on his freestylee lake board?

I on the other hand will be towing a horse to some dressage event; where I will then sit in the car, nursing a thermos flask of fresh coffee and watching a film on my iPhone.... that's assuming there's 3G and I can get anything other than a Jason Statham movie on Netflix.  It's a far better way to spend a Saturday, I'm sure.