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    Posted: 22 Feb 18 at 1:12pm
Well I'll definitely be taking a look. 
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Another boat for sale - due to ill health.


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Very Good UK Boat FOR SALE on the UK Farr 3.7 website. 

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Very Good UK Boat FOR SALE on the UK Farr 3.7 website. 
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They have been getting on fine at Lyme. There is another interested young sailor at Lyme to. We just need to find a way to get him a boat! To my knowledge there haven't been many A over T incidents, even in the prevailing Lyme conditions. But at the end of the day that's one of the fun things about the boat. It's light, lively and doesn't need super star skills to handle, but provides enough interest to make you want to master it. 

The swell is pretty long at Lyme so there shouldn't be any problems; i would have thought the problems would be more in the short chop.


Yes, a windy, wind against tide at Stone S.C would sort the men from the boys.

I should add... that it's only going to be a bit nosey trapezing hard off wind in the nastiest short chop, and all you'd do is sit in and hike it and go deeper. 
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It's a long time since I visited Lyme and that was back in my water ski days, but from memory Lyme has quite a well defined and spaced wave length, our problem up here is a very nasty steep but short chop, which in a south westerly on starboard out to sea has you bucking like a clown in a rodeo even in boats with quite long waterline length, it is Contender Country when it's windy.
I'm thinking of to hell with it I'll give it a go anyway, and keep the EPS for lightwind days, it sounds like sailing a windsurfing short board which means banging the corners which I don't really like having to do at Hythe as more often than not it's a one sided beat and often the confined side is the one to go.
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I can honestly say that I have not noticed the lack of length being a problem for me at Lyme (add your own witty comments here!).  If you have the big waves that Lyme is famous for then chances are that you also have wind and will be trapezing and therefore will also be planing, so length becomes less important (or again here!).  I guess it might be slightly easier to get it wrong downwind on broad reaches but my last A over T was down to incompetence (again!) and not bothering to put my foot in the loop going down over a wave and thus slipping forward, loosing my balance and over we go. 

Upwind in waves when on the trapeze is a joy and you wouldn’t notice the length issue at all.  So I really don’t think that 3.7 metres is a problem.  The same sadly can’t be said of my arthritis which means I can’t now get across from one side of the boat to the other quickly enough, but that is another story.  
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