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    Posted: 03 Apr 12 at 2:46pm
I can't watch it for some reason

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Originally posted by fab100

 

I was only responding to James' brill video, but I think we can safely presume that I will never ever leave my 100 grinding on the stones for want of a trolley-dolly. 

it's windsurfing mentality- it'll get scratched soon enough anyway.

besides chicks dig scars...

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Originally posted by Neptune

 

followed by the return match at Hythe in a shore dump?  more difficult to predict now eh

I was only responding to James' brill video, but I think we can safely presume that I will never ever leave my 100 grinding on the stones for want of a trolley-dolly. 

And do races at Hythe have an old style Le Mans start from on the beach then?
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Originally posted by Neptune

Originally posted by fab100

 
Oo a v-twin-RS100 match race on Frensham - I'm up for that, but I predict it will never happen. How quick is your tacking and gybing grmph?

followed by the return match at Hythe in a shore dump?  more difficult to predict now eh
 no problem, as long as you get it off the beach and then dont actually race in the surf

love the GRF speech near the end of his chat with cindy about the solo, phantom and laser sufferers


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Originally posted by fab100

 
Oo a v-twin-RS100 match race on Frensham - I'm up for that, but I predict it will never happen. How quick is your tacking and gybing grmph?

followed by the return match at Hythe in a shore dump?  more difficult to predict now eh
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Originally posted by rogue

you were all warned...


Priceless. Are you sure these are not your true calling Jimbo?

Oo a v-twin-RS100 match race on Frensham - I'm up for that, but I predict it will never happen. How quick is your tacking and gybing grmph?
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Whatever the merits of the V-Twin, from that video to Atrocity's race reports, it is inspiring some first class works of art.
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you were all warned...

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Originally posted by Andymac

Don't mock. Haven't you heard the parable about the hare and the tortoise?
 
MMmmm.....
"Once upon a time there was a hare who, boasting how he could run faster than anyone else, was forever teasing the tortoise for its slowness...."

Bit unkind to refer to a poorly rigged/sailed Laser 2000 as a tortoise, don't you think?
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Originally posted by seamonkey

Originally posted by Atrocity

... As the lead boats rounded the first mark I realised why the Twin had been held back, it was struggling to punch the tide!  The whole fleet, Lasers and all had left it for dead.  After the three legs of a triangle, the Twin and a Laser 2000 were neck and neck at the back of the fleet  (the Laser 2000 had gone upwind with its top batten inverted, down wind with its kite mostly in the water and with its main a foot from the top of the mast!).
 
I watched the whole race, the fleet completed 3 laps, the Twin was finished after 2  (I presume that the RO gave up on it ever getting round again).
 
 
Performance as expected ...
 
Don't mock. Haven't you heard the parable about the hare and the tortoise?
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