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Rupert 
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 Topic: Ghost TownPosted: 10 Jan 14 at 12:30pm |
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Ghost Town, oo-o, I'm Living in a Ghost Town...
Where is everyone?! |
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Blue One
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Posted: 10 Jan 14 at 12:41pm |
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Living in the home of the specials!
And staying on facebook and away from forums.
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iGRF
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Posted: 10 Jan 14 at 1:10pm |
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One of the more irritating folk on the Boards Forum has gone on vacation so the general tenor has lifted and the place livened up a bit so there's been a fair bit of banter going on, is where I've been, plus I haven't been out since the Solo trauma for one reason or another (laying low in case they make me buy it).
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RichTea
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Posted: 10 Jan 14 at 1:16pm |
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Packing up the boat to take it to QMSC tomorrow?
I will be there causing havoc and identifying all the non class legal modifications! |
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Ruscoe
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Posted: 10 Jan 14 at 1:48pm |
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Rupert
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Posted: 10 Jan 14 at 1:54pm |
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If I were going I'd be at the wrong end of the fleet to be worrying about whether a hotshot had the wrong jib up and whether it made 0.5 of a point's difference to his handicap. Odd reason not to go, really. My reasons are 1, I'm too lazy and 2, I'm not fond of large crowds.
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Ruscoe
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Posted: 10 Jan 14 at 2:02pm |
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Rupert, trust me it has nothing to do with my results. Just the principle. It shows a lack of respect to other competitors and organizers who have spent their time and money to race within the spirit of the rules. To my mind the Merlin jib fiasco a few years ago was a mistake and was blown out of context, but after that manufacturers, sailors and classes should of learned. It gives the whole thing a bad taste to me so I have decided to only enter events I really enjoy doing or involve no other investment from me. Oxford blue and Stevie Nick... The bloody Mary will cope with out gob sh*tes like me that languish in 100th place but at least I will sleep safe in the knowledge that some Muppet has not treated me with complete disrespect.... I wont get into a big debate about it again, its been done to death. Its just my point of view, be it right, wrong or whatever. |
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iitick
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Posted: 10 Jan 14 at 2:07pm |
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I know Rupert. There is only so much anyone can say about sailing and we have exhausted other "interesting" topics. Tell you what I am doing, going to the club to fit a bung in a sensible place on a friends Lightning, birthday present. The fact that she is 43 years younger than me has nothing to do with it.......
John Betjamin wrote a poem called "Late Flowering Love". "My head is bald, my breath is bad, unshaven is my chin, I have not now the lust I had when I was young in sin" (paraphrase) Then, Venice on Tuesday with me old dutch. Does it flood in January? It did a bit last April. Do we need boots?
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yellowwelly
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yellow ones. I'm bailing on my spot for the BM- a crappy forecast eclipsed by a good one for Sunday at a (slightly) warmer south coast beach with windsurf boards. Solo will be back on the market at a reduced price next week. I have no immediate plans to replace it, only festering temptations that can easily be tempered by the price tag vs time on the water value judgement. laters aligators- fair winds and good sailing! Jimbo |
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Rupert
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Posted: 10 Jan 14 at 2:19pm |
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Ruscoe, you are quite right - reasons for going or not are purely a point of view - whether someone else finds them odd isn't reason to rubbish them. Apologies.
iiiiiitick, if it floods in Holland, don't you need a boat, not wellies? |
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