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    Posted: 12 Mar 05 at 7:33pm
when my mum started sailing she used to ware port and starboard socks!!!
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Please tell me that he got the green and red the right way round.
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so how did that make him win races
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My father once came up with the bizarre race winning tactic of painting each side of his boat a different colour, in a bid to outfox the other competitors and possibly the race officer. He painted one side of his Scorpion green, the other side red, and the bottom was half white and half blue!



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the best hull colour for a boat has to be red, my laser's red
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Post Options Post Options   Quote carshalton fc Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Mar 05 at 3:40pm

yer would you go anywere then?

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Yeah also as soon as the boat started moving it would cancel out the uplift form the deck wind. not good.
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if it was going to work the sun would have to be supper hot and anyway who wants to stand on a boiling hot deck?
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chance is it wouldnt.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote carshalton fc Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Mar 05 at 3:16pm
i dont think so but who would wont a black for deck anyway.  i dont actually know if it would work propily anyway?
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