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    Posted: 09 Jul 13 at 6:11pm
Lee, sounds like a great weekend out.

Talking of EPS's, a friend of mine at Whitefriars is buying one from Manor Park, apparantly, but not yours? We will have 3 at Whitefriars then, once John has fixed the rudder on his.
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Originally posted by iGRF

Are my eyes deceiving me or did an EPS hand you a butt sandwich?

Now I wish I'd gone...

...that was me graeme, though I'd hardly suggest I handed anyone their arse  Big smile
I was just casually sailing my own 'race' - trying to pose to my g/f on the spectator steamer actually - as, up to that point, all was well in the world of EPS-ing.....until just after passing the steamer where the wind objected to any form of steady progress and saw me struggling around the island/panic-tacking/stuck-in-irons in front of any number of very fast downhill mentalists  LOL ....spent the whole downwind leg (nearly seven miles!) absolutely bricking myself after one big (double) swim. Even when things actually returned back to normal, I just felt like a Viet-vet, remaining shell-shocked all the way  Big smile

Great sail on Sunday - and benefitting from those that went home. Light wind but very sailable and a lovely beat all the way back (wind went to the opposite direction to Saturday) to finish right with one of my mates on the line.

Result? phht, irrelevant.....sunshine, huge amounts of beer, music, chat, friendly people - planet dinghy really is a small world. A proper festival of sailing. Loads of families, soaking up the rays and atmosphere.

...and some beautiful boats to pore over. Dinghy porn of the highest calibre  Smile
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interesting to see an Albacore come 10th, Wayfarer 17th and a Tempest in between at 12th, very well sailed no doubt, looking at the quality of the fleet around them, but progress eh...?
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Originally posted by jaydub

Originally posted by iGRF

Are my eyes deceiving me or did an EPS hand you a butt sandwich?

Now I wish I'd gone...
You should have done.
 
We could have been treated to the novel sight of two EPSs racing. Wink

that may have caused some kind of rent in the space-time continuum, I'd like the lake to be there next year when I plan to make the pilgrimage  
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Originally posted by iGRF

Are my eyes deceiving me or did an EPS hand you a butt sandwich?

Now I wish I'd gone...
You should have done.
 
We could have been treated to the novel sight of two EPSs racing. Wink
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Are my eyes deceiving me or did an EPS hand you a butt sandwich?

Now I wish I'd gone...
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Matt, I'm sorry I can't remember that. You sure it was me? I guess so I was the only d1. Wasn't really a struggle more an inept sailing ability on gybes this weekend. Glad I have got it out of my system before nationals. Did I chat to you on or off the water?

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We binned it twice in hurried gybes on Saturday either getting pushed too far into bays or avoiding capsized boats, rescue craft, islands and steamers. Felt much better after hearing that a rather wet, forlorn D-one had struggled as much as us (we were in the pink 400 you chatted briefly with Ruscoe). We had our own issues (shredding the kite 10 minutes before the start) and finished 129th but enjoyed every minute. Sunday was sooo much better than forecast (for us at least as we got away in the first pack) with the (knackered spare) kite filling the whole leg.

The sun shone the whole weekend which always helps but I understand this happens every year  Wink


Edited by Matt Jackson - 09 Jul 13 at 1:19pm
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No worries.  Straight forward port and starboard going downhill.  Just difficult to see anything the other side of an assymetric spinnaker and you were really trucking anyway, so we weren't going to risk trying to cross you. ;)
 
We baled out of the gybe as the boat wasn't flat enough and went behind you.
 
We' were alraedy starting to lose touch with the two leading 200s anyway, so no harm done
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I was the Only D-One, sorry if i forced you to crash Gybe?  Hadnt realised i had forced anyone to make any snap decisions, i banged most of the corners downhill.

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