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MB226 
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 Topic: sailing regretsPosted: 26 Oct 11 at 5:06pm |
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Selling my Dart 18 cos I thought my Dad was getting too old to crew for me and feared he might get drowned as I fired him around the forestay a few times. That was 15 years ago and the old git is now on his 2nd Dart 15 at the age of 76 !
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CharlieW505
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Joined: 17 Oct 11 Location: Woking, Surrey Online Status: Offline Posts: 20 |
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Posted: 26 Oct 11 at 5:15pm |
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1 - Being crap at boat maintenance
2 - 505 worlds race at Hayling in 2006.......should've attacked and gone left on the 2nd beat (it was our plan against the compass readings before the start), instead we played safe and went right with the rest of the top 10, we lost about 35 places...!
Better to have loved and lost though...!!
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tickel
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Joined: 21 Dec 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 408 |
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Posted: 26 Oct 11 at 5:55pm |
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Well, if that is what I think it may have been.....I hope it will not put you off the Nationals?
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tickel
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Joined: 21 Dec 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 408 |
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Posted: 26 Oct 11 at 5:56pm |
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Sorry.....that was meant as a reply to "stargazey"
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Matt Jackson
Really should get out more 
Joined: 21 Sep 04 Location: Darlington Online Status: Offline Posts: 962 |
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Posted: 26 Oct 11 at 5:57pm |
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Not buying a Moth before I got too fat!
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Laser 203001, Harrier (H+) 36
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craiggo
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Joined: 01 Apr 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1810 |
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Posted: 26 Oct 11 at 6:07pm |
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1. Giving up sailing from age 13-18 to follow the dream of being an RAF pilot, by joining the ATC and going gliding.
2. Not finding a way of getting a B14 for the Euro circuit in 1999 3. Leaving Team Invictus after the Bristol Rhode Island event, and then missing out on the opportunity to sail her with the new wing! |
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Stargazey
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Joined: 15 May 10 Online Status: Offline Posts: 45 |
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Posted: 26 Oct 11 at 8:22pm |
No, No! Fully plan to be there - only 5 miles down the road and no B&B charges - so only the wife can stop me now
 Have even converted the traveller to a dual car - first trial will be at the Nationals - so may all end in tears.
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Iain C
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Joined: 16 Mar 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1113 |
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Posted: 27 Oct 11 at 10:06am |
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Having a massive teenage gap with no dinghy sailing and not much big boat sailing
Not sailing anything even slightly fast until my mid 20s
Never racing until my mid 20s
Never building my 12/Cherub hybrid
Not sailing an 18 since the 2009 Mark Foy
Mooring at Shepards Wharf last Friday night next to the noisiest bunch of muppets on a Dehler 34
Being seen having a go in a Vortex
Not doing the Fireball Worlds in Barbados
Buying a Micro Magic
Not reefing the missus' old Minisail in a F6-7 and ending up on the dam wall as the spars are soooo bendy you cant get upwind
Not being 20 years younger and able to do the whole 29er and keelboat academy thing...you young 'uns are sooooo lucky
Buying Musto HPX wellies rather than Dubarry Ultimas
Drinking an entire bottle of Morgan's Spiced with Tom V a few weeks ago and trying to sail to Hamble the next day in 25kts...eeuuugghhhh
Not buying a 49er sooner
Never having had a go on any kind of performance cat...hell, even a Dart 18
Too fat for a Moth
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RS700 GBR922 "Wirespeed"
Fireball GBR14474 "Eleven Parsecs" Enterprise GBR21970 Bavaria 32 GBR4755L "Adastra" |
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Xpletive
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Joined: 28 Jan 06 Online Status: Offline Posts: 320 |
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Posted: 27 Oct 11 at 10:42am |
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Chris 249
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Posted: 27 Oct 11 at 12:24pm |
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Spending too much time sailing mixed fleets and other classes that aren't SMODs.
Suffering non-dinghy-sailing injuries every time I start getting right up to speed in Lasers. Crewing in semi-serious races for slow sailors. Racing when I feel I should, rather than when I want to. Not choosing the right offers to take in Sydney-Hobart races. Never having learned how to fix my first Moths properly. Going for the forward loop (on a windsurfer) that still has me seeing specialists and under heavy-duty antibiotics, 20 years later. Having a bunch of people I know killed sailing. None of them, apart from the last, are serious. It's a fantastic sport that has made life so much richer. The thing about getting into a new sport recently is that it's just underlined again how fantastic sailing is, and made me wonder why so many people spend so much time throwing hate at it on forums. Edited by Chris 249 - 27 Oct 11 at 12:26pm |
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