Contentment...
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Category: Dinghy classes
Forum Name: Dinghy development
Forum Discription: The latest moves in the dinghy market
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Topic: Contentment...
Posted By: JimC
Subject: Contentment...
Date Posted: 02 Dec 12 at 4:32pm
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I was just reaching up to the finish line of the second race today. In my vintage Moth, for which I'm about two stone too heavy, in wreather that doesn't really suit it, at least when overloaded, last by a mile, totally relaxed after some very stressful weeks at work, and I thought: is there really anything I'd rather be doing right now, and, in the circumstances is there any boat I'd rather be in, and the answer to both questions was no.
And I thought, "well, you really are a lucky *****, I wonder what percentage of the world's population can say that right now..." |
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Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 02 Dec 12 at 5:04pm
| Know what you mean especially after the tough time work can be right now. |
Posted By: Daniel Holman
Date Posted: 02 Dec 12 at 5:15pm
| I get that a lot, it's a nice feeling alright. |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 02 Dec 12 at 6:40pm
| Great post Jim. |
Posted By: tick
Date Posted: 02 Dec 12 at 7:00pm
| Give me a sunny day with a slight breeze, any boat, friends of all ages then sit outside the pub with a pint surrounded by the Peak District hills......then home and fall asleep with a cat on my knee and dribbling (me not him), bliss.....but too cold for sailing today. |
Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 02 Dec 12 at 7:03pm
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Yep top post - probably the best of the year! ------------- |
Posted By: tick
Date Posted: 02 Dec 12 at 7:13pm
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Posted By: tick
Date Posted: 02 Dec 12 at 7:14pm
| Our little pond today, lovely but COLD! |
Posted By: winging it
Date Posted: 02 Dec 12 at 7:22pm
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sailed the megabyte today to see if it hurt my hands. It did, but it was worth it.
------------- the same, but different... |
Posted By: getafix
Date Posted: 02 Dec 12 at 7:27pm
ONLY WINNING IS FUN.... I thought we established that some time back !?!?!?!  ...or maybe not, nice post, sums it up and perhaps a backhanded compliment for today's dinghy gear which, for me at least, makes days like today a whole lot less 'painful' than they were evenly relatively recently |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 02 Dec 12 at 7:28pm
| I sat in the sun today after the race, I can't tell you how happy I am to have rediscovered our little lake, with the Romney Hythe & District light railway steam trains chuffing by, with that oh so familiar steam, & soot smell those years of school boy trainspotting used to deliver, a moment in the sun, cup of tea... Heaven. |
Posted By: Lukepiewalker
Date Posted: 02 Dec 12 at 8:24pm
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Small boys in the park... jumpers for goalposts... marvellous, isn't it?
------------- Ex-Finn GBR533 "Pie Hard" Ex-National 12 3253 "Seawitch" Ex-National 12 2961 "Curved Air" Ex-Mirror 59096 "Voodoo Chile" |
Posted By: ex laser
Date Posted: 02 Dec 12 at 11:35pm
great post. so true; but, it was it wasnt too cold to sail in leamington, must be colder in the peaks!  ------------- |
Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 03 Dec 12 at 7:29am
Nope winning doesn't matter as long as you're in a cool boat that'll attract kids/newcomers/Megan Fox in Santa girl lingerie..... ------------- |
Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 03 Dec 12 at 8:30am
Well you're screwed then ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 03 Dec 12 at 8:50am
+1 in fact +101 |
Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 03 Dec 12 at 9:06am
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say the guys in the Phantom and Laser EPS....? ------------- |
Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 03 Dec 12 at 10:13am
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Well unless Megan Fox has developed a taste for necrophilia........ ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |