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iiitick 
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 Topic: Sailfest......Posted: 26 Aug 14 at 8:06am |
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Sorry Simon I wrote the above without reading your post. I am John Saunders who you spoke to regarding the Byte class. I would hate to hide behind iiitick!
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Simon Lovesey
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Posted: 26 Aug 14 at 9:54am |
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Course area - ideally this would be close to the slipway but given the tides for the weekend, and with some near record low waters there was only really one viable sailing area that could be used across the whole day.
Looking at the GPS data it was around 1.7 miles to the start line from the slipway, this compares to other coastal venues like HISC, Weymouth, Plymouth, Falmouth etc, and all these have scope to race even further away up to to several miles. Although we were able to put some short course racing through the moorings off the slipway, we ran out of water as we got nearer to low tide, so not possible to fit in a third race. The top mark was stuck in the mud when we went to recover it, and the mark layers had to walk out to it......, that cost me a few beers. |
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2547
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Posted: 26 Aug 14 at 11:12am |
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It's a sports event ... you are meant to be tired after ... but a few amber recovery drinks usually gets people going again ...
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Simon Lovesey
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Posted: 26 Aug 14 at 11:30am |
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We saw sailors from several classes (including some of the faster boats) give the Veledrome Cycling a go, also Brenda managed to take time from the race office to do a few laps. Other sailors were seen burning calories in the bar, something for everyone at GJW Direct SailFest
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Simon Lovesey
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Posted: 26 Aug 14 at 11:36am |
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Spot the athletes
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iiitick
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Posted: 26 Aug 14 at 3:33pm |
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It is Simon and Sailracers duty to say encouraging things about the event and it is not in my nature to be critical. Therefore I will not argue or get involved in an unseemly wrangle with such nice people. I have made my point. Did the Monday pursuit race go ahead by the way? Not many boats in the boat park when we left on Monday after (very good) breakfast!
Thank you very much for sending the photographs, that was really kind.
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Simon Lovesey
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Posted: 26 Aug 14 at 4:29pm |
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The North Sails Long Distance Pursuit Race was binned due to lack of even short distance visibility in the awful Bank Holiday Monday Weather. But given we had plenty of prizes, a top race team, North Sails coaches and some keen sailors, we re-invented the day into the North Sails Short Course Regatta with Cameron Tweedle (Finn) winning from Tim Keen (RS300)  |
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blaze720
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Posted: 26 Aug 14 at 4:54pm |
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It is always a bit easy to find fault ...after an event. The weather simply did not play fair for enough of the time on this occasion. If anyone can suggest perfect weather dates with certainty more than a few days in advance then they should not be wasting their time here, they should be selling the service and making their fortune. The planned sailing area is the same as used by Warsash for championships and I could not see any real fault in that either ...
In fact for trying out boats the 'apres' sailing (ie post cancelled) sail on Sunday was very good. Close in and just plain playing around. For example we loaned one of the 'match racing' Icons to a couple of youngish 18' skiff crew who had broken their ride on Saturday and we had fun chasing around both windward/leeward and across the wind for well over an hour with them ... nothing like trying something new is there guys ! Brenda / Simon L of Sailracer have some photos somewhere ... Mike L. Edited by blaze720 - 26 Aug 14 at 4:56pm |
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Simon Lovesey
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Posted: 26 Aug 14 at 5:12pm |
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18 Foot Skiff Sailors enjoying one of the Icon Match Racing boats
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cad99uk
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Posted: 26 Aug 14 at 5:37pm |
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Has the new Icon builder been revealed?
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