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Won't be long before he won't be part of the UK anyway, will Johnny Foreigners be allowed to take part in future events?

Well, it was a long way for allot of people, not least Rodney and Sue.  I think given the time that was available to organise this we were lucky to have anywhere to sail at all.  I should imagine if people want the event further up the country they should start asking their clubs now and feeding back to Rodney.  it was a 300 mile 5 hour round trip for me so for a similar distance and time if you Drove North you would be near Sheffield!  Thats pretty northern by anyones book!

1060... which is similar to the Blaze at 1040.  So when we raced each other 'the men's way' (none of that spreadsheet nonsense) and I beat you over the water, it proved that I simply sailed better than you on that occasion, rather than either boat being a bandit or hobbled.   Fortunately, as a man you accepted it and bought the first beer.  

Edited by pondmonkey - 16 Oct 12 at 10:08am

Hopefully dual nationality rules apply! Anyway if the worst comes to pass there'll be no one living north of the Big Wall ..... they'll have left long before the single question

Originally posted by Ruscoe Well, it was a long way for allot of people, not least Rodney and Sue.  I think given the time that was available to organise this we were lucky to have anywhere to sail at all.  I should imagine if people want the event further up the country they should start asking their clubs now and feeding back to Rodney.  it was a 300 mile 5 hour round trip for me so for a similar distance and time if you Drove North you would be near Sheffield!  Thats pretty northern by anyones book!

Well there was talk of Grafham, which is pretty central and I've sailed there lots over the years, but it won't be as cosy nor as friendly as those Broxbourne folk, I got the feeling they really enjoyed the tenor of the event, they did a first rate job in pretty tricky wind directional conditions, none of those races turned into anything like some of the farces we have down our way.

Anyone know what the bar arrangements are late at night in the Grafham changing rooms, I don't recall a single event there that scratched the "that was a laugh" spot, the sailing is good, big water, as reasonably clean air as you'll get inland, but then I felt that was another benefit of Broxbourne, however bad things turned out, you could normally catch up or watch your fellow competitor sat in a hole as you winged you way in on a shift then next day find yourself sat in a hole as the entire fleet sailed off, the Good Lord giveth and the Good Lord taketh away..