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    Posted: 18 Apr 12 at 9:27am
FWIW spend your £500 on some nice food, some nice cheese and some decent wine, find a not-so-nice-if-you-ask-right partner to share it with you and see where that goes.... you ain't gonna get much worth racing for £500
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or maybe talk to sailing clubs to see if they are selling off (letting go) any boats abandoned in the boat park where subs are unpaid etc - saw a 49er in this state recently

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Originally posted by getafix

FWIW spend your £500 on some nice food, some nice cheese and some decent wine, find a not-so-nice-if-you-ask-right partner to share it with you and see where that goes.... you ain't gonna get much worth racing for £500


Ha ha, find a "not so nice if you ask right" partner and you will never have any money to spend on sailing
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£500 probably find an Albacore or a Classic Merlin? Bit more in the budget i'd say the RS200 is bandit handicap boat (see Weston Grand Slam results)
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£500?
£100 boat space
£100 insurance
Leaves the boat in eBay territory really.
But I'd rather have something like that than not sail.
You can get secondhand sails and stuff, make/repair covers and trolleys.

I think it would be fun to see what people could do for that sort of money.
Would make an interesting mag article.
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sound like a classic Top Gear challenge - all we need now is a bit of cash from Y&Y and say three willing and importantly opinionated volunteers (e.g. GRP, Rogue and JimC) to go out with £500 quids and tell the tale  Big smile
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Originally posted by r2d2

or maybe talk to sailing clubs to see if they are selling off (letting go) any boats abandoned in the boat park where subs are unpaid etc - saw a 49er in this state recently

Where was this? We are looking for one at the minute but on a limited budget 
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Originally posted by r2d2

sound like a classic Top Gear challenge - all we need now is a bit of cash from Y&Y and say three willing and importantly opinionated volunteers (e.g. GRP, Rogue and JimC) to go out with £500 quids and tell the tale  Big smile

I can see Graham as the Clarkson type figure, buying as many old wooden boats for his money as he can just so that he can sink them or burn them. Wink
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> sound like a classic Top Gear challenge

You'll have to leave me out of it - I don't have nearly enough hair left to be James May.
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 You are a miserable lot! It is perfectly possible. You should see what has come through here and what it achieved. I agree that you will never make a proffit but winning races is achievable.
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