Mugshots....

Ok, deeply sorry PB , I just randomly thought I should comment about nothing in paticular :D.

Of course according to Mr. Rooster who has some research to back his claims up aswell straight leg hiking causes less damage to your legs/joints and also locks you more solidly in the boat allowing you to ahem affect its trim more efficiently with your body weight adjustments.  Check out the rooster hints and tips website and the whisperer DVDs.

Well the article was enough to side track me from studying.....will try and scan it in and post it. Reckon both Frank and Steve are right in their own respects and I'd be more a kin to doing what feels most comfortable....(probably the reason that I've grown lazy and don't like "hikey" boats... )

As borrowed boats go, thats a pretty good looking one!! 

The owners of 'Lady in Red'  (affectionatly know by many as 'Lady in Brown' due to a paint job that has done something funny in the sun) have bought a Mk 4 osprey so let us borrow their old boat for the nationals. They even towed it all the way to poole (8 1/2 hours!!!) for us. Twas very Kind of them. Although in that picture we have the Dacron sails on, earlier in the day we had the 'stealth sails' on which are dyax i think, they look very cool, but  they ripped because of the eccessive flogging. twas a windy day!