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kneewrecker ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 09 Apr 14 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1586 |
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I sailed the Solo (or my boards) most weeks when I was in the UK, I didn't necessarily race every week though. When I'm not in the UK I tend to be Spain where I have my main boat, (and another windsurf set up), although three weeks were taken out with other holidays last year which was a little unusual. And you are right, when there's wind in the UK forecast, I tend to windsurf in preference. Although inland windsurfing has lost its appeal somewhat- to the point where I haven't actually joined anywhere whilst boat-less this season so far. So I tend to find less-is-more and hit the coast once or twice a month at the mo instead. Less bullsh*t ... you know the score on that front. As I said, I liked the Solo, I would probably buy another one if circumstances were right, or more accurately, if there were no other options. Boat on boat I much preferred everything about it over my Phantom. But I figured something with a little more oomph would be preferable for light wind Wednesday night racing- hence the plan to get a Finn or a 300. For reasons mentioned, I don't think a Finn is the right boat for me right now. And the 300, well I guess it would have paid to do my research before selling the Solo. I could have got 6 months more out of it for minimal depreciation, but unsurprisingly no one was going to announce from the roof tops that the 300 had been axed. Either way, the D-Zero is too good an opportunity to pass up - so I'd be moving the Solo on now anyway. I suspect I'll give it a couple of seasons at the very least before shaking my head at the conservative nature of UK sailing.
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KeithF ![]() Groupie ![]() ![]() Joined: 29 Jul 10 Online Status: Offline Posts: 44 |
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Spot on there. I had a 300 for 4 years and hated every minute of it - what the hell was I doing. Since then three Finns and loved every minute. Four years blasting around in a D-One - haven't won a race at the club but had great fun re-learning to swim and coming 2nd! Now on to the D-Zero - MAGIC. |
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Keith - Finn GBR63
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Blue One ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() Joined: 09 Nov 13 Online Status: Offline Posts: 317 |
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It will all depend on how often he sails. He only stuck with the solo for so long because he didn't sail it very often. It was always too windy, too light, too wet, too dry, or wind surfing or on holiday etc etc etc . If he sails every other week, I give it three months. But if he sails it as often as the solo, I give it a year. I hope I'm wrong and he keeps it two or three years as I will have enough money saved to buy it off him by then. !
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Thunder Road ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() Joined: 24 Jun 10 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 372 |
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Finn GBR16 Thunder Road.
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iGRF ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6499 |
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Or continue with your collection? What do they call folk who collect steak pies?
Pielately? There must be quite a few of you in the Phantom class, do you often swap them? |
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kneewrecker ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 09 Apr 14 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1586 |
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sh*t, that mean you can officially bully me during the day time.
Don't worry mate, life is there to laugh at, and if you can't laugh at yourself then who can you laugh at? Besides, who's the joke really on? Me? If I get bored of a boat, or it no longer suits what I want, then I chip it in for something I want more. Or the person trapped sailing something they don't really want to anymore because they lack the wherewithal & confidence, or are simply too damn lazy to make a change? I know people who have simply stopped sailing when their time came to sell their Laser. I find that a bit sad, but understand all too well that circumstances change, and frankly, if all that's on offer is drifting around a pond in a very expensive bath tub, then other sports and life events will take priority. But for me it has been best to try a few things out, than resign oneself to nothing more than a Costa Meatball panini to pass the weekend, or worse, 5 a side football - with the dicks at the local accountancy and law firms.
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maxibuddah ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 06 Mar 09 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1760 |
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I think you are going to like it jimbo. I think you'll find it satisfying and rewarding, as well as a 300,who knows, but you'll have fun finding out.
Apologies for the poking fun, but after a couple of glasses last night and something you wrote in another thread I thought it was a good idea..... Obviously not really in hindsight, but at least it got you practising your keyboard and elegance skill set. By the way I do like stella, just not for an all evening drink. |
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Everything I say is my opinion, honest
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iGRF ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6499 |
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Everyone should learn to windsurf before they sail boats, I thought this as I robbed a couple of kids off the dinghy course to join our team fifteen lot the other night.
I'm pleased if my influence (I've never been the sort anyones mother would recommend their child having anything to do with)has changed the way you (or anyone else for that matter) think, I'm not right or wrong I've just been lucky enough to cross a few sports. But it is significant that wind and its employment as a means of propulsion and the competition it affords has been by far the most enduring and long may it continue into retirement which appears to be upon me at last. Sail and own as many boats as you like Jimbo, it's OK by me, it's in the rules after all, the correct number of boats a man should own is N + 1. |
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kneewrecker ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 09 Apr 14 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1586 |
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whoa there cowboy.... you're forgetting the influence you have played in my sailing education over the past 5 years. Whilst I don't think all-out light weight is necessarily a good thing on a dinghy, especially with an imbalance on the sail area, lively snappy handling is something that windsurfing has led me to expect from sailing these days. I never really understood what people meant about feeling connected to the boat, or more specifically disconnected from it. I do now, thanks to windsurfing - sailing in its purest form. Anyway, suffice to say my first sail in a D-Zero was bare-foot to properly test it. And it delivered. Much as I liked the Finn, I do wonder, almost hope, that I would find it a 'bit of a bus' once I've got used the feeling of something erm, elegant, for a more civilised age. Edited by kneewrecker - 30 May 14 at 11:05am |
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iGRF ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6499 |
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So what he really needs is a Finn or the new D 0.5 boat.
Can I change my bet? |
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