Dinghy Show - What did you whink?

It all made my little Europe seem rather small!!

Got some progrip stuff for a fiver though so I'm sorted!

Had to get up at 6am to catch a train, got there by mid day, 5pm train home (fighting way through Finsbury park station (footie fans carried me off down an escalator and all I could think was 'dont squash my moth poster!') got home at midnight and had to work on sunday morning :(

Originally posted by Isis The new ISO, Blaze and Buzz were definantly improvements, The later two especialy. I hope theres enough spirit in the class associations to push them through the changes and come out the other side stronger than before.

A lot of the ex-Topper grp boats we showing new colours last weekend. To be fair the Blaze has not really changed just had all of the niggles sorted out and a smart new sail from North (the sail plan has not changed, just a change from sobstad who were jacking prices up rapidly).

As for the class being able to push they first batch of 'new' boats are all sold and a second batch is already in the offing....now if only I had the money....

Paul

Originally posted by les5269 Your such a lightweight BBSC Faithful!

Ha ha be quiet les. but thanks for the free pint les. Ur such a dude . And alteast i wasnt sick on the way back

haha you think any of your journeys was impressive. Isis and I got on the megabus at 22:45 on friday evening. Arrived in london at 6:15 saturday morning having had absolutely no sleep at all. Got the underground as near as we could to the lee's house then walked the rest of the way both completely dead by this stage. Got there. Went and bought some coffee from a near by shop and then headed up to the show. Spent all day at the show at least half of which helping on stands. Headed back to the lee's house and had some very good chili. Got to sleep about 4am once a certain member of the cherub class who sails a fruity boat stopped shouting down the phone to a certain other cherubist. Got up at 11:30 the next morning went to the show until closing. Helped do the packing up. went out for a meal with Isis' parents then got the underground back to victoria and got on the coach at 23:45. Made it to glasgow by 9am after having a blow out on the m6 at 4am and waiting an hour for a replacement bus. Made it back about 10 minutes too late for my first lecture.

New Extreme sport: Hardcore Dinghy Showing

It was quite a shock just how many engineering works were going on!  The worst was the Piccadilly line closing just after the show closed... at least there was a train station to go back to.

We made the trip down from Scotland/Newcastle to Stansted but after bad experiences last year decided to stay with friends in London on Sat eve - which soothed away the travel frustrations and gave us the whole of Sunday to get home (almost all of it needed!)

But the show was great!  Loved both cherubs, Osprey, Merlin Rocket, Contender...