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    Posted: 24 Jan 14 at 2:54pm
Elaine and i are on duty on Sunday. Think we could be a little busy! :)
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I reckon the only way you can gurentee a large single-class fleet of the boat you want to sail is to win the euromillions and buy the boats yourself- then rent them out at a pittance.
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Forecast for sunday looks perfect for having friends over... my life might be ruled by sailing, but participation on Sunday might be limited to advice on fixing an eps wing.
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Originally posted by yellowwelly

 
No doubt it will be sunny, 12 degrees and a nice force 4 from a consistent direction at Draycote.... enjoy your sailing this weekend.  Whereas next weekend will offer nothing more than a ghost's fart on a mirror...  


Currently forecasting rain & F5 gusting F7/8 for Sunday. 
I'll certainly enjoy the memory of it afterwards!
Hard work for you monomaran guys I guess.
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Originally posted by Rupert

Originally posted by iitick

As far as I am concerned Sailing is an all enveloping experience. I live very near the club and in the summer months my life moves Home/Club/Pub. We have 5 Lightnings so we have bijou class racing and I know my place...last. If I am not last I treat it as victory! If it is too windy I don't sail but stay in the clubhouse talking to the wags and drinking tea. I like boats and I like people so I play with boats and I talk to people. Our days extend into the pub.

I celebrate my life. It is a sailing life, how many of you are like me?




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Currently things like sorting kids for school and the odd bit of work get in the way, but what you describe is pretty much how I see things being if I get lucky when older. My life is certainly a sailing life. I have tried to fight it in the past, but my mid term plan is now to get more sailing into my life, hopefully getting trained up to share sailing by teaching others, and therefore earning a little from sailing again, too.


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Originally posted by Rupert

 but what you describe is pretty much how I see things being if I get lucky when older.

yep- couldn't put it better.  Retirement (or semi retirement) needs to factor in 3 days on the water for an hour or two every week; except when on holiday, where I will be on the water every day.  

In the interim I've just been to the butchers to buy the meat for the friends that have been scheduled for weeks to descend on us this weekend. 

No doubt it will be sunny, 12 degrees and a nice force 4 from a consistent direction at Draycote.... enjoy your sailing this weekend.  Whereas next weekend will offer nothing more than a ghost's fart on a mirror...  
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Originally posted by iitick

As far as I am concerned Sailing is an all enveloping experience. I live very near the club and in the summer months my life moves Home/Club/Pub. We have 5 Lightnings so we have bijou class racing and I know my place...last. If I am not last I treat it as victory! If it is too windy I don't sail but stay in the clubhouse talking to the wags and drinking tea. I like boats and I like people so I play with boats and I talk to people. Our days extend into the pub.

I celebrate my life. It is a sailing life, how many of you are like me?




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Currently things like sorting kids for school and the odd bit of work get in the way, but what you describe is pretty much how I see things being if I get lucky when older. My life is certainly a sailing life. I have tried to fight it in the past, but my mid term plan is now to get more sailing into my life, hopefully getting trained up to share sailing by teaching others, and therefore earning a little from sailing again, too.
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I'm with you itick
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As far as I am concerned Sailing is an all enveloping experience. I live very near the club and in the summer months my life moves Home/Club/Pub. We have 5 Lightnings so we have bijou class racing and I know my place...last. If I am not last I treat it as victory! If it is too windy I don't sail but stay in the clubhouse talking to the wags and drinking tea. I like boats and I like people so I play with boats and I talk to people. Our days extend into the pub.

I celebrate my life. It is a sailing life, how many of you are like me?
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In all seriousness I reckon board racing has effectively died in all but a few locations, therefore once it comes back on occasions it's done with a very good spirit and atmosphere.  I'm sure Graeme can offer insight into when board racing went all elite and overly-serious- losing sight of what it was that made it so attractive in the first place.  I wonder if dinghy sailing is going up the same alley.... it's certainly become more elite over the years I've been doing it, to the point where it can easily loose relevance in your life.  

Turning the old winter handicap events- which were largely social sailing- into a full blown serious series in its own right, and the constant quest for making handicap racing more serious, more competitive and authoritative, might be done for seemingly the right reasons, I just don't know whether it's taken something away in the process...?  

There's nothing more demoralising that coming off the water thinking you've sailed well, only to find the spreadsheet says you've done sh*t, or your fellow sailors say your boat is a bandit in those conditions.  Although I guess it's nice when it goes in your favour too... the hollow small victory though it is.  It's this kind of thing that can kill someone's mojo- fairly instantly in my experience.  


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