Draycote dash

I think it's faster than 1000 mate.  Mikes done a lovely job on the rig, which is massive by the way! 

I'm sure if we went through the annals of this forum it was suggested that 100kg (or thereabouts) would be made up of a combination of beer bellies, bitch tits AND lead in the bottom if necessary to prevent any fly weight antics...

But hey, whatever, Zeros and 300s looked good, and as there were no Finns there my own interest then moves to the lasers, 505s and Merlins.....

Mike is a superb light wind sailor, regularly taking the choccies in Blaze events in light winds. And he does have a knack of developing very nice sails!

Ah but does he sell them to his customers, or keep the best for 'special occasions'

Yeah of course we always keep the 'best' stuff for those special occasions - North have a secret file that is only to provide 'better' sails for me personally and they are quietly supplied 'under the radar'...... Keep it quiet and I'll sell you one if you are prepared to pay say 20% over the list prices and promise not to tell anyone.  Nobody will ever know ... they look exactly the same as the regular ones.      

The Dancing Farmer was off on sick leave this weekend - so I could not join the three other Icons who were at Draycote this time in '03'.  Hopefully when the vet says he's 'good to go' again normal service will resume.   As he is oft heard to say 'age, cunning and guile can occasionally win over youth, fitness and talent'.

But thank you Draycote again, SJ and the sponsors  ... and we will be looking forward to Datchet on 13/14 December quite soon.

Mike L.




Edited by blaze720 - 24 Nov 14 at 10:16am

Originally posted by Null Hi john Jack, I think the halo py is a little tasty.  Nick Craig told me that mike was going faster and higher than him in his merlin upwind!  It's certainly a much faster boat than the zero.  We are nowhere near the 1015 set, I think 1035-1040 is about right for us.  But frankly there is no way that a zero and halo are anything like the same pace