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    Posted: 07 Mar 07 at 12:09am


Going to the dinghy show and seeing the new Buzz brought back some really fun memories. Here's one of my prouder moments......
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The "student style towing" pics are from Edinburgh Uni SC and it's me in the photos!

I'd just like to point out that it was nothing to do with the towing - the wind picked the trailer up & produced the results shown. If you don't believe me there is a crash report on our sports union website...



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yeh yeh john we believe you, sure that the driver and the rest of you were not still suffering the effects of te previous night... only jokin man, hard luck we at the tech here are very sad to see the loss of your boats of course but its cool you can just bully herriot watt into a corner and use there brand new ones.....
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From what I have seen in my travels, most university boats are in that condition even without a road crash !!
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i think some cherub style moding is needed on them.  or just duct dape it up

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Our (ex)boats are newer than hw's by a couple of months. Their first outing was SUSA last year and I think they were the newest boats at the 60th anniversary nationals in the summer (or very close to)!

Originally posted by tickel

From what I have seen in my travels, most university boats are in that condition even without a road crash !!


I'd say most unis have ok boats these days, as the flies last quite well. I suppose it depends where you go though. From my experience team racing laser IIs are a nightmare, with tillers that move a foot before the rudder even moves & are also always falling to bits. Maybe there should be a uni sailing map of GB that tells everyone what type of boats & what condition of boats each uni has?

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i think some cherub style moding is needed on them.  or just duct dape it up


If there is a group of friendly cherub sailors passing Edinburgh anytime they'll need to have a look at them. One of them is in half (bow & stern separate) so I think a conversion to a 12ft skiff or even Cherub could be a real possibility!
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Originally posted by olly_love

i think some cherub style moding is needed on them.  or just duct dape it up


If there is a group of friendly cherub sailors passing Edinburgh anytime they'll need to have a look at them. One of them is in half (bow & stern separate) so I think a conversion to a 12ft skiff or even Cherub could be a real possibility!


Theres a couple (well, one and a bit) friendly cherub sailors in glasgow. Will be at most of the susa events under the strathclyde banner... Im the one moaning about how little sail people put on 12ft boats that weigh 75kg


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the firefly is amazing to sail tho.  and now these boats have "lightening holes" in them so they are faster than standard
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lightning holes?
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Lightening holes as in weight reduction rather than Struck By, maybe, which would have left them looking a little more burnt, but possibly in fewer pieces...
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