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Villan 
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 Topic: Forum WindPosted: 27 May 09 at 4:45pm |
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Brilliant! Stolen, Source added, Printed, and will be on the clubhouse wall within the hour! |
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Vareo - 149 "Secrets"
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zailor
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Posted: 27 May 09 at 6:19pm |
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That has to be the best scale I have seen
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timeintheboat
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Posted: 27 May 09 at 8:53pm |
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Top quality stuff!
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Like some other things - sailing is more enjoyable when you do it with someone else
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Scooby_simon
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Posted: 27 May 09 at 9:22pm |
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Cat sailing version:
BF 0: Official Description: Calm Windspeed: < 1 Sea State: Flat Cat Description: Forget it, anything is faster, oppies will overtake. Weapon of Choice: A class BF 1: Description: Light air Windspeed: 1 ¨C 2 knots Sea State: Ripples without crests. Cat description: Drifter, forget it, toppers are faster
Weapon of Choice: A, F16, Shadow or a M20 Vampire BF 2: Description: Light breeze Wind Speed: 3 ¨C 6 knots Sea State: Small wavelets. Crests of glassy appearance, not breaking Cat Description: A classes are over powered upwind, Single handed F16's are almost. 2 up boats marvel at these silly single handers and wish it was windier. Most poeple drink beer. Weapon of Choice: A, F16, Shadow or a M20 Vampire BF 3: Description: Gentle breeze Wind Speed: 7 ¨C 10 knots Sea State: Large wavelets. Crests begin to break; scattered whitecaps Cat Description: light brease, A's are flat out, F16's a flat out, T's and Hurris and the like are twin stringing for the lightweights. Hulls fly uphill and down Weapon of Choice: Most things single handed. M20 Vampire BF 4: Description: Moderate breeze Wind Speed: 11 ¨C 15 knots Sea State: Small waves with breaking crests. Fairly frequent white horses. Cat Description: Proper light breeze All the cats are having fun now, wiring upwind and most wire down wind. Single handers start to feel that they are starting to run out of hands. Weapon of Choice: A, F16, Spitfire, F18, Hurricane, TOrnado BF 5: Description: Fresh breeze Wind Speed: 16 ¨C 20 knots Sea State: Moderate waves of some length. Many white horses. Small amounts of spray. Cat description: Nice bit of pressure today Single handers are a little more challenged upwind and wiring downwind is a little bit too exciting single handed. 2 up boats are having a ball, loads of spray, pushing hard down wind, the odd cheeky pitchpole sneaks in. Weapon of Choice: Anything is fun, lower power boats start to make a showing. BF 6: Description: Strong breeze Wind Speed: 21 ¨C 26 knots Sea State: Long waves begin to form. White foam crests are very frequent. Some airborne spray is present. Cat description: Proper wind. Brown trail follows most single handers when flying the kite down wind. 2 up boats are really having fun now. Tornados fly! Single handers start to worry a little, more pitchpoles sneak in
Weapon of Choice: Spitfire, Hurricane, F18, Tornado BF 7: Description: High wind, Moderate gale, Near gale Wind Speed: 27 ¨C 33 knots Sea State: Sea heaps up. Some foam from breaking waves is blown into streaks along wind direction. Moderate amounts of airborne spray. Cat description: OK, it's windy now. Single handers leave the kite in the bag most of the time. Top 4 battens are inverted, mast shaking at times. 2 up boats have diappeared in a cloud of spary. YOu know about the pitchpole after it happens.
Weapon of Choice: Spitfire, Tornado, Hurricane. BF 8: Description: Gale, Fresh gale Wind Speed: 34 ¨C 40 knots Sea State: Moderately high waves with breaking crests forming spindrift. Well-marked streaks of foam are blown along wind direction. Considerable airborne spray. Cat description: Gael Force Editor of Y&Y. Not much else to say, any dinghy sailor going-out is a dickhead who could potentially encourage the fun police to start legislating our beloved sport. Any sailor launching in these conditions deserves to have their profile photo photoshopped into Britney Spears ¡®upskirt¡¯ before being unceremoniously drummed out the brownies by printing it slap bang in the middle of Roll Tacks. Cat sailors got out for "A play" some go swimming.
Weapon of Choice: Hurricane BF 9: Description: Strong gale Wind Speed: 41 ¨C 47 knots Sea State: High waves whose crests sometimes roll over. Dense foam is blown along wind direction. Large amounts of airborne spray may begin to reduce visibility. Y&Y description: Noble Marine Force Okay you¡¯re not sailing, but your boat might be- tie the f*cking thing down please. Noble premiums are kept lower if we all tie our boats down. Weapon of Choice: Insurance Docs, Pint Glass and a warm pub BF 10: Description: Storm, Whole gale Wind Speed: 48 ¨C 55 knots Sea State: Very high waves with overhanging crests. Large patches of foam from wave crests give the sea a white appearance. Considerable tumbling of waves with heavy impact. Large amounts of airborne spray reduce visibility. Y&Y description: Armageddon Do not leave the house, if the roof comes off shelter under the kitchen table. Weapon of Choice: Michael Fish¡¯s Meteorology in 1987 and an Anderson Shelter BF 11: Description: Violent storm Wind Speed: 56 ¨C 63 knots Sea State: Exceptionally high waves. Very large patches of foam, driven before the wind, cover much of the sea surface. Very large amounts of airborne spray severely reduce visibility. Y&Y Description: mild domestic When driving out of LDC remember to screw up the receipt and throw it out of the car window. If wifey finds out how much your new hikers, rash vest and harken mainsheet block cost you may find yourself in the middle of a Violent Storm. This is not good for getting sailing tokens. Weapon of Choice: Flowers & Chocolates BF 12: Description: Hurricane Wind Speed: ¡Ý 64 knots Sea State: Huge waves. Sea is completely white with foam and spray. Air is filled with driving spray, greatly reducing visibility. Cat description: Cat Sailor from Brightlingsea who's jib's explode at the Grafham cat open. 'Hurricane' used to post about catamaran sailing on the Forum; last seen heading off with ¡®Sailor Girl¡¯ somewhere hot. Would be great to hear back from him again. Weapon of Choice: Big Wave Dave¡¯s ¡®Dear Dave¡¯ thread in the banter section |
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Wanna learn to Ski - PM me..
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jeffers
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Posted: 29 May 09 at 7:12pm |
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Loving it cheers guys! Have just had a few days Cadet training. If any of them had bought this in when I asked about the beaufort scale, instant pass!
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Paul
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Merlinboy
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Posted: 03 Aug 09 at 9:32pm |
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I think the forum wind guage is back again guys!
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alstorer
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Posted: 03 Aug 09 at 9:59pm |
Been at the curried baked beans and sprouts with chickpeas, washed down with Guiness, again? Edited by alstorer |
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Merlinboy
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Posted: 03 Aug 09 at 10:14pm |
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Actually Al Yes, thats what i ate on my date with Dr Gillian!
More to the point its the young guns posting the old "whilst out single handing my dads 18ft skiff in a f7 the other day, i strugled to wire to wire gybe. The Bag drops were not a problem as i have been sailing for a year now, but the wire to wire gybes were a struggle with me only nailing 9 out of 10. Is it because i have a QR harness" |
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Posted: 03 Aug 09 at 10:23pm |
Where's the offending post? |
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Merlinboy
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Posted: 04 Aug 09 at 2:07pm |
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Thats the one Jimbo although i think my early quotation of the post is a bit more closer to what was said? Dont these posts normally next go on to something like: " I am about to take my driving test, and i have saved up enough money for my new car. I have £34,000 to spend on the car and insurance. What i want is something i can tow my boat with and sleep in the back of. I was thinking of a BMW X5 or maybe even a Audi Q7. I wouldn't want a Volvo XC90 becuase of their ties to that horrible youth circuit and those damned chopped strand polyester resin boats. So what do you think?" Usually followed up with a post a little later explaining why they have bought a G plate Citroen AX and how it will tow said boat up any hill at 95mph whilst returning a healthy 65 MPG. |
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