End of Year Highlights
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Topic: End of Year Highlights
Posted By: getafix
Subject: End of Year Highlights
Date Posted: 15 Dec 12 at 8:12am
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As 2012 draws to a close, thought it might be good to start a thread focusing on the dinghy sailing highlight, or highlights of the year. I know the Olympics was excellent and Wiggo won the tour, and Andy Murray won a major and, and, and.... but it's dinghy sailing in this case! For me, top was racing for the first time with my son in the summer and sailing around the cans with my dad as well, same day. Second was a very memorable three-sail reach down the harbour in spring-time, still making me grin now. What about yous? |
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Posted By: gbr940
Date Posted: 15 Dec 12 at 9:21am
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Personally I found that elusive sweet spot rig setting, still yet to get that 1st race win but several 2nds this year I'm happy with, also delivering the 2012 J/80 Worlds (in Dartmouth) to 76 boats...pretty happy with that. In the wider sailing world, seeing Ben pick up his last Olympic gong, but for me VSR2 smashing the speed record without a doubt is the sailing highlight of 2012 :) ------------- RS400 GBR1321 |
Posted By: rb_stretch
Date Posted: 15 Dec 12 at 9:32am
For me it was the first time that I managed to take my triplet daughters out for a sail. All aged 3, so takes some handling, which is why we only did 15 mins of actual sailing in portsmouth harbour. But it's a start  ------------- |
Posted By: alstorer
Date Posted: 15 Dec 12 at 11:13am
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The epic run from Marconi SC to Colne Point with the lime green B14 chasing us. The slog back was hard work, but the downhill ride was unbelievable.
------------- -_ Al |
Posted By: tick
Date Posted: 15 Dec 12 at 4:15pm
Welcome to the Yachts and Yachting Multiple Birth Club. Triplets and above only...........
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Posted By: LASERNUT
Date Posted: 15 Dec 12 at 5:07pm
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FOM event! Most fun at an open for quite some time. ------------- Sailmakers https://morgan-sails.com/ |
Posted By: Dougal
Date Posted: 15 Dec 12 at 5:31pm
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Watching my 7 year old pracitising in his Oppie - he was standing up in the back of the boat and pumping it downwind copying the footage of the 470's in the Olympics. He then went back up wind and did it all again and again and again. Fantastic to watch, but it took me an hour to get the little b*gger to stop and come in! ------------- What could possibly go wrong? |
Posted By: radixon
Date Posted: 15 Dec 12 at 6:21pm
I have a B14 on film somewhere, I was in the rib chasing a few boats, looked epic. For me 2012 was a year of little sailing. 2013 will start with a sail on 5th jan followed by the BM on 12th...looking forward to getting out more ------------- |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 15 Dec 12 at 8:07pm
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Hornet 60th Europeans in a 59 year old boat.
Holt centenary Tideway sailing under all those bridges on the thames heeling the boat over to ensure we got under Putney bridge and sailing at the home of all those Holt designs.
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Posted By: craiggo
Date Posted: 15 Dec 12 at 8:50pm
| As with Richard, 2012 has been a year of reduced sailing thanks to tides and weather. Biggest highlight was coming second on day 1 of the TSC club week in the Graduate with my 4yr old daughter sailing her first ever race, then hearing her say she wanted to win the next day, which we duly did! Fantastic looking at the shocked faces on the water on the second day when they realised she was actually trimming the jib and had cracked roll tacking! and it wasn't all down to me sailing the boat. |
Posted By: drifter
Date Posted: 15 Dec 12 at 9:29pm
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I've had a great club season. Trophies in both Graduate and Albacore, four excellent dedicated crews (including the wife). Beaten the back injury. Advice to everyone-take care pulling your (heavy-Albacore) boat out the water-life changing consequences.
------------- Stewart |
Posted By: alstorer
Date Posted: 16 Dec 12 at 2:38pm
I was on the white one with the yellow spinnaker. It was huge fun ------------- -_ Al |
Posted By: gbr940
Date Posted: 16 Dec 12 at 4:56pm
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damn...forgot that 70mins of sending it to Colne Point - we had the purple kit :) ------------- RS400 GBR1321 |
Posted By: I luv Wight
Date Posted: 16 Dec 12 at 5:15pm
Winning a prize at Gurnard sailing club, even though I don't think I actually finished any races! I started quite a few, but chickened out if the courses were out into the waves, or too far downtide, or was too windy, or was not windy enough - whch means nearly of them  . A foiling moth + big Solent chop / 3kt tide / no wind is tricky. Doing my first foiling gybe was a high point though ------------- " rel="nofollow - http://www.bloodaxeboats.co.uk" rel="nofollow - http://www.bloodaxeboats.co.uk Andy P foiling Int Moth GBR3467 Freedom 21 Codling |
Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 12:03am
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Buying a solo...
Oh sorry, we're talking about high points; well then, probably seeing some old git drinking Bacardi in a changing room at half one in the morning with a smile on his face; knowing that at that moment, he'd finally 'got it' about this dinghy sailing lark. ------------- |
Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 8:00am
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CVRDA nationals at Bough Beech - it was windy so we had some great sailing in the Albacore. Best results ever at CVRDA, getting a couple of firsts by leading all the way round on the Monday.
And getting the Wingnut award for being first at the mark then towing it to help the rest of the fleet lay it!
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Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 8:04am
| Ah the prestigious wingnut.... many have tried but only a few have succeeded. welcome to the elite group Pat |
Posted By: Rockhopper
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 8:16am
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Buying a boat to sail with my youngest daughter 7yr old this time and doing the FOM event great fun all round and to top it all off for once being able to get the boat in the garage for the winter ------------- Retired now after 35 seasons in a row and time for a rest. 2004 national champ Laser5000 2007,2010,National Champ Rs Vareo |
Posted By: Neptune
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 9:13am
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Buying my Musto and finally going for a sail without it falling over was an early season highlight - getting the kite up in 20knots of breeze and nailing down wind and popping in a perfect gybe was the later season bonus. ------------- Musto Skiff and Solo sailor |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 10:52am
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Coming up behind Pat and Sandy in their Albacore in the Minisail when I'd expected only to see their transom for the rest of the race, and watching Pat still madly trimming the jib whilst Sandy was hanging over the back trying to free the mark. A trip to Minorca Sailing with the family, and watching my son gain huge confidence with every day that passed, throwing a Laser around like a pro, and learning to trapeze on a 29er. Learnt loads myself, too. Flat out planing in the Minisail at Clywedog at a classics meeting, overtaking Merlins, Flying 15's and Albacores. Trouble was, we had to go back upwind again after... ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 10:58am
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Finally showing dinghy sailors what regatta 'spirit' is all about, even though they got the wrong 'spirit' as you might expect, until finally they did 'get it' as we were being shepherded off into the changing rooms with Bacardi for a few precious moments before I had to head off to Mrs Miggin's B&B..
It's been an eventful year in retrospect, finally getting the V Twin on the water, then finding myself a crew for the Alto, then finding the perfect dinghy for myself, all unfortunately in the wrong order, but that's life. The FOM restored my faith in humanity's ability to not always take life too seriously, whilst still showing that there's still lots to learn, which in turn renewed my enthusiasm and finally re-discovering our little lake and another entire group of local competitive sailors, so all in all, a very successful year. |
Posted By: Thunder Road
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 11:26am
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I started enjoying sailing again. On a gusty day arriving too late for the start in a borrowed ICON we just had a blast and remembered what fun it can be. Meeting the people at FOM was just brilliant, Graham is right, shame none of them liked me, but can't have everything ------------- Finn GBR16 Thunder Road. |
TRPosted By: Thunder Road
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 11:34am
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I nearly forgot, first time out in the 59er, fell in three time, really cold but couldn't stop smiling.
Found out I have many true friends.
I think I'm one lucky guy.
------------- Finn GBR16 Thunder Road. |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 11:40am
What do you expect? I mean if you're a pussy boy 300 sailor struggling in the world of male Finndom and a big scary guy comes up to you and offers you a baby sham? |
Posted By: tick
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 11:58am
| Oh for Heavens sake. All this "discovering yourselves" and learning the "meaning of true friendship" nonsense. That FOM meeting should never have taken place. It seems to have put you all in touch with your inner selves. This forum works best when it's members are remote and aggressive not wallowing in a sweetened lake of human kindness. It will be "happy Christmas to all my lovely friends" next. It is turning into a teenage girls Facebook page. |
Posted By: Thunder Road
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 12:03pm
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Sorry I'll man up!!! ------------- Finn GBR16 Thunder Road. |
Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 12:57pm
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Quite simply iGRF on Sunday morning at the fom....priceless.
Making Mr Jardine dance around the changing room dressed as a giant green bottle while Jimbo shouted "dance bitch, dance" Camping out when ice was forming on the inside of the tent was nor really a highlight but it was the first time I'd done that. Managing to convince several people that my complaints about the Punk being a py bandit was genuine especially considering I sail a Phantom. Basically it was the fom event for me ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 12:58pm
Happy Christmas to all my lovely friends
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Posted By: Dougal
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 1:03pm
Why does the second from left say Pop? ------------- What could possibly go wrong? |
Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 1:28pm
nice revisionism... I actually think it was your goodself who coined that particular phrase. Although I'll gladly take credit given the amusement value at the time.
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Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 1:33pm
Damn you Jimbo, I didn't think you'd remember that after all the rum. Still you kept singing it ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |
Posted By: Moppo
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 3:12pm
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In order: 1) Finally regaining enough strength to finish races two years after an arm injury. 2) (First equal really) Getting the B14 out on the road and doing some events, and not being as slow as expected. 3) Getting a first and second in my 1970s wooden GP14 on the last day of the CVRDA nationals at BBSC, and being able to laugh about the fact that we'd probably have won the event if we'd managed to sort ourselves out enough to do the previous day's racing (also of amusement, getting to the top mark first on the first lap, hoisting the kite and immediately p***ing ourselves laughing when we realised that we'd neglected to check if either of us knew how to fly a conventional spinnaker). 4) Being on the Nothe for the first day of the Olympic sailing (this would have been first but for the constant requests to 'make some noise' and playing loud music whenever someone who knew what they were talking about came on the big screen) ------------- B14 694 |
Posted By: shadeux
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 4:52pm
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1. Competing (and finishing) 2 Round The Islands, one IOW the other Sheppey. Both long unfufilled ambitions. 2. Glorious family sailing holiday in Greece Together, sort of made up for not doing enough club / open events. ------------- Bruce Shadow002 |
Posted By: Max McCarthy
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 5:25pm
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Sailing at the Jack Holt centenary regatta, in Wraysbury, it was great to be part of such a celebration attracting a wide variety of boats from a modern hornet (can't remember the sail number) to hornet 416 (I think) and the last surviving Jack Holt canoe. Also, it was amazing to be part of such a special event, celebrating someone who really brought our sport to the people. Sailing the AC for the first time, was just fantastic, and the feel as it sliced through the water was just great, and then going out for the second time and capsizing a whole lot less! So far, these two events really stick out in my mind, and I really enjoyed both of them... Max
------------- Vintage skol moth 3438 |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 6:00pm
Pity I'd wrecked my back by then - would have been interesting to see how Minisail V's GP would have gone. Maybe next time! ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: Ruscoe
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 7:27pm
Pah, I was happy with my Finn efforts given it was my first time in the boat and the mast ddn't rotate! Next year in either the D-one or The Graduate with my daughter. Time of year dependant. My highlight, D-one Nationals. What a great bunch of guys at a great venue in a great boat. Oh and joining Oxford sailing club, great value and great racing. ------------- |
Posted By: winging it
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 9:21pm
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I'm still hoping for a highlight this year. My personal sailing i still crap, but I do seem to have helped a few others, plus some highlights for the club. I have entered the Brass Monkey and the Grafham Grand Prix, both of which just squeeze in to this year, and just getting finishes at either would be a highlight, so who knows? ------------- the same, but different... |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 17 Dec 12 at 9:53pm
| Well if you get back onto the water in an event, after all the bad luck you've had of late lass it'll be a result.. |
Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 6:38am
It was a classic weekend - I think the Saturday morning "Hi, I'm maxibuddah" and a Ginsters pasty magically appearing in your hands photo is going to make an appearance here on Christmas Day! |
Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 8:26am
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Got to live up to your stereotype Mark, can you imagine the outcry if I had turned up with a nice 4 lead salad for goodness sake?
Anyway pasties are good for you, there are plenty of veg in them, potatoes, swede, peas and carrot, very nearly all of your 5 a day in a single handy size package. ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |
Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 8:43am
I think you quashed that rumour well before it started! |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 8:53am
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Surely not peas and carrot in a cornish pasty? What is the world coming to - sounds like something made in Devon.
------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: didlydon
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 9:20am
Yep..... i was just about to say that..... Sacrilege!!!!  ------------- Vareo 365 |
Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 9:41am
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Nope Ginsters is authentic, and definitely made in Cornwall. 
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Posted By: boatshed
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 9:58am
PUFF PASTRY !!!! No, no, no. Short crust only.
------------- Steve |
Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 10:26am
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I was only working from memory from the last one I had from morrisons so can't say it would be authentic.
Anyway what is authentic? There are many recipes that could be genuinely called authentic that come from Cornwall which means no one can definitively say what is. I bet that the miners who had them originally didn't care as long as there was stuff in them that was edible and I suspect that it varied person to person. Based on that assumption from me there cannot be an authentic pasty as they would have all varied due to the ingredients the maker had to hand. Strikes me that trying define what is authentic is little more than a marketing ploy based on nostalgia to separate you from your money. All that it means is that you end up branding a product/area based on a marketing persons idea. ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |
Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 10:40am
Who mentioned cornish? Wasn't me, I only said pasty, which of course can come from anywhere in the world. The eu have only defined cornish pasties so everyone else can do whatever they like so long as they don't call it cornish. ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |
Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 10:40am
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'provenance' id definitely a marketing trend in the food industry... but there's also legislative controls in place to protect geo-specific recipes and products: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_indications_and_traditional_specialities_%28EU%29 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_indications_and_traditional_specialities_(EU) I believe a 'Cornish' Pasty falls within this legislation. ------------- |
Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 10:56am
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Yeah but who defines the recipe of something like a cornish? As I said I bet there were 100 different recipes floating around Cornwall years ago that should be able to be called a cornish but because some burocrats and marketing people have decided on it they cannot anymore.
I wish they'd do it with cider then we could outlaw things like woodpecker and white lightning... ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |
Posted By: Dougal
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 11:03am
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I think this has just turned into the best thread ever. ------------- What could possibly go wrong? |
Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 11:14am
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It's all part of my secret plan to get you all to eat pasties and turn into phantom sailors Dougal. ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |
Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 11:17am
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I've had a Rick Stein pasty in Padstow and have to say it was quite disappointing really. The best pasty ever.... probably a Chicken Tikka one from the shop at Daymer Bay after a bit of a brutal introduction to wave sailing last easter. 30 odd knots, 5.2m on a 103L board- that's small kit for a big bloke. I'd shreaded my hands on my boom, 'death grip' of fear combined with fine sand from the shoredump; and the pipping hot pasty filling dripped onto the fresh wounds- absolute agony, but it was so tasty I persevered. ------------- |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 11:21am
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The odd thing is that I'm veggie, so have never eaten a genuine cornish pasty. But even veggie ones with peas in would be just too horrible to contemplate! Personally, I like the ones that my (Cornish) mother-in-law makes for me - potato, swede, leek and blue cheese. With short crust pastry, of course. Yum. And properly crimped. The other complaint I hear from meat pasty eaters is that of there being mince beef in them, not skirt. ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: Dougal
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 11:24am
------------- What could possibly go wrong? |
Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 11:31am
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Got to say Rupert that sounds nice, even though it's totally wrong that there's no meat in it. ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |
Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 11:35am
ahhh,m so that's the reason.... there was me thinking there was no correlation with my wife signing up to instagram to share photos of baked goods with her friends and me buying a lavender-iced solo. ------------- |
Posted By: Moppo
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 11:46am
I'd like to amend 'would have won' to 'could have won', there were some well sailed boats there that weekend. ------------- B14 694 |
Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 11:49am
| The key to winning is not to leave all your gear in your brothers car overnight and relying on him turning up. |
Posted By: didlydon
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 11:51am
Best Cornish pasties I can remember tasting are the ones my auntie made when we used to visit.... used to overhang the plate........... beautiful....... a meal in one. Simple wholesome inexpensive ingredients.... mmmmm... I'm getting inspired to knock a few up (got her recipe at home)........!! ------------- Vareo 365 |
Posted By: tick
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 11:51am
| I was in the "Original Bakewell Pudding Shop" in Bakewell where the original secret recipe is held. When I was standing waiting to pay the customer ahead of me, an elderly man of irascible countenance was paying his bill. The assistant asked if he enjoyed his pudding? "No, that was not a real |Bakewell Tart". The assistant was amazed, "What was wrong with it"? "Too much cinnamon"! "B,b,b, but this is the real shop where we make the real puddings to the original recipe"! "I don't care, that was NOT a real pudding". The Empire was founded by men like that. |
Posted By: rodney
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 11:57am
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Is this the Pastis thread ------------- Rodney Cobb Suntouched Sailboats Limited http://www.suntouched.co.uk" rel="nofollow - http://www.suntouched.co.uk [EMAIL=rodney@suntouched.co.uk">rodney@suntouched.co.uk |
Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 12:14pm
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Non! ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 12:18pm
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Ah, Pastis... best drink out there. Nearly finished my last bottle - hope I get another for Christmas! End of year lowlight if I don't... ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: getafix
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 12:36pm
the bakers in Fareham, don't remember the name, make great pasties, either that or Rock bakery for me! definitely not those nasty things they sell in garages 
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Posted By: PeterV
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 12:41pm
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Highlights:
The hot pasty delivered by the young entrepreneur as I got back to the dinghy park from the last race of the Finn Nationals at Falmouth. ------------- PeterV Finn K197, Finn GBR564, GK29 Warsash |
Posted By: Kev M
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 12:44pm
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The best pasty I ever had came from.............................Devon, Ethel Braithwate's little shop in Lynton ( http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.22934,-3.833666&spn=0.000752,0.00202&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=51.22934,-3.833666&panoid=lHFVIuaqMr3P-iiIN9AfZg&cbp=12,107.2,,0,0 - http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.22934,-3.833666&spn=0.000752,0.00202&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=51.22934,-3.833666&panoid=lHFVIuaqMr3P-iiIN9AfZg&cbp=12,107.2,,0,0 ). A beautiful steak and Stilton job it was too. My sailing highlight, having a ding dong battle with a flying fifteen in a pursuit race while sailing a 420 with an even more novice crew than me with no trapeze and no spinnaker and holding them at bay for most of the race until I f**ked up the last mark rounding. ------------- Successfully confusing ambition with ability since 1980. |
Posted By: SoggyBadger
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 1:10pm
And prompt;y lost by them too Yes I've been to that shop. We were camping at Hulme End and having a barbecue so I cycled over to Bakewell to get some puddings. Never got to taste even a crumb though as by the time I'd finished cooking the barbecue the gannets had descended and scoffed everything  ------------- Best wishes from deep in the woods SB |
Posted By: Thunder Road
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 2:39pm
------------- Finn GBR16 Thunder Road. |
Posted By: Contender 541
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 2:50pm
Ah Pastis - the drink that gets you coming and going. I recall getting very squiffy on Ricard some years ago and going to bed (foot on floor to stop the spins). Woke up the following morning feeling 100% - and then drank some water which reactivated the Ricard and kept me down for the day  ------------- When you find a big kettle of crazy it's probably best not to stir it - Pointy Haired Boss Crew on 505 8780 |
Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 3:00pm
all sorts of wrong... ------------- |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 18 Dec 12 at 4:13pm
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Tastes the same going down as coming up, too, which is a big improvement over whisky. Mind, it has been a couple of decades since I last checked that fact.
------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: Thunder Road
Date Posted: 19 Dec 12 at 1:53pm
 ------------- Finn GBR16 Thunder Road. |
Posted By: bristolmustoskiff
Date Posted: 19 Dec 12 at 4:53pm
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Selling everything i owned to buy a musto skiff then joining datchet sailing club and having some excellent sailing after having 6-7 months out to try and get a musto skiff
Then doing the inlands in the musto after only having spent 5hrs in the boat did very badly but great to be on the line with 40 other boats Cant wait until 2013 ! ------------- live hard race harder |
Posted By: Dougal
Date Posted: 19 Dec 12 at 5:44pm
All good and well, but what about the best pasty you had in the year? ------------- What could possibly go wrong? |
Posted By: mongrel
Date Posted: 19 Dec 12 at 7:14pm
Best I've had are either Crib Box, St Austell - http://www.cribbox.co.uk/ - http://www.cribbox.co.uk/ or Ann's Pasties, Lizard - http://www.annspasties.co.uk/ - http://www.annspasties.co.uk/ Kernow King at Ann's Pasties - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjJViQAj-hA - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjJViQAj-hA
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Posted By: tgruitt
Date Posted: 19 Dec 12 at 7:17pm
I'm going to have to say my own.... It's got a Devon crimp but I'm in Cornwall. ------------- Needs to sail more... |
Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 19 Dec 12 at 7:58pm
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I love it, a thread taken over by pasty munching. What other threads can be hijacked by food topics? ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 19 Dec 12 at 8:16pm
| I'm thinking of cooking my own goose this Christmas. |
Posted By: getafix
Date Posted: 20 Dec 12 at 7:32am
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Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 20 Dec 12 at 11:19am
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Posted By: RS400atC
Date Posted: 20 Dec 12 at 12:12pm
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Not a great year for high points, sailing or otherwise. A lot of lost races, some very dull courses, a lot of opens we did not go to due to strong winds forecast. A few epic races on the sea, including a very memorable spinnaker leg off of Southsea really not knowing if we were going to be able to stop before we hit Hayling. A few really great club races where we've had a good turnout of 400's with close competition. |
Posted By: bristolmustoskiff
Date Posted: 20 Dec 12 at 5:22pm
Thanks You would giggle if you knew how many cars i brought and sold to get a musto lol ------------- live hard race harder |
Posted By: bristolmustoskiff
Date Posted: 20 Dec 12 at 5:24pm
Why the confussed face? ------------- live hard race harder |
Posted By: winging it
Date Posted: 20 Dec 12 at 6:58pm
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I just had a nice cream tea in Devon whilst down there to collect a RIB. That has cheered me up. Can't comment on the pasties: veggie.
------------- the same, but different... |
Posted By: Thunder Road
Date Posted: 21 Dec 12 at 8:54am
Or maybe a trip to Bradford City where the only edible pasty is the cheese and onion, this has the added bonus that when spilled down one's cotton replica shirt it doesn't show up on either the claret or amber stripes Should one find ones self at VP on no account eat the chicken balti pasty, a weapon of self destruction ------------- Finn GBR16 Thunder Road. |
Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 21 Dec 12 at 9:02am
because he thinks they're sh1t. ------------- |
Posted By: Neptune
Date Posted: 21 Dec 12 at 9:29am
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Because he couldn't sail it! ------------- Musto Skiff and Solo sailor |
Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 21 Dec 12 at 10:07am
which is no great shame in the scheme of things. I could barely sail mine as soon as a 6 week hiatus from the club set in- especially upwind where I was just too damn slow to get in in the lulls. BUT, to not be able to sail it 'cos you're a complete novice and you go to the class training and tell them they're all wrong (and ladyboys), that trapeze harnesses are gheey and that your DakKine windsurf harness with some crazy attachment to the wire would revolutionise it for them.... well that's just a tad potty.  ------------- |
Posted By: Neptune
Date Posted: 21 Dec 12 at 10:22am
A bigger space revolutionised my sailing in it, just more time to think. I think if i tried a smaller venue i could make a better fist of it now having gotten over that initial hurdle. ------------- Musto Skiff and Solo sailor |
Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 21 Dec 12 at 10:36am
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I've sailed Datchet about 5 times in total- I've always been impressed by how clean the wind is compared to Draycote. Grafham's similar- cleaner wind, less shifty and gusty. Although I'm not complaining too much... Pitsford, now that's a shifty, gustfest for a such a reasonable sized piece of water. ------------- |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 21 Dec 12 at 10:43am
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The final shame of it all?
I couldn't sail it any better now than I did back then, because fundamentally, just like the 49er which I've since been proved correct in my assumption that even super good guys cannot ever fully master, it is flawed. When I say 'fully master' that means come what may, whatever condition whatever the course you race round without falling in or over. Racing isn't , or should never be, about wether you piss it in or not. So sorry BristolMPS, not right or proper of me to crush your dreams, you might be younger, taller, heavier, a better sailor and could well go on to enjoy what looks like a super boat and I sincerely hope you do, but I can never do that with that boat because of physical limitations beyond my control and that doesn't sit well with me. |
Posted By: RS400atC
Date Posted: 21 Dec 12 at 11:21am
Aren't all boats flawed in some way? The MPS looks less flawed than most, particularly when you see a well sailed one powering along in conditions where lesser boats are struggling. In the limit, any performance dinghy is going to be at risk of capsize. One price of performace is increased risk of capsize. If you come up with a boat more resistant to capsizing, people will just sail them in more wind. I think boathandling is an important element of racing, if someone beats me because we capsize and they don't where's the problem? |
Posted By: getafix
Date Posted: 21 Dec 12 at 11:32am
+1 I enjoy boat bimbling as much as next person, but a bit of practice can go a long way.... and you can spend ££££'s trying to get a few seconds round the race course versus the minutes you can lose capsized or by going the wrong way up a beat |
Posted By: bristolmustoskiff
Date Posted: 21 Dec 12 at 2:16pm
well lets just say its getting better with the practice i am putting in the the hints and tips i am getting from the guys at datchet i came from sailing a difficult boat (rs600) so i dont really find it to bad, i am just trying to find the grove of the boat the point where its at its fastest (not up side down) oh just to answer your question i am 29 years old 6ft4 14 stone ------------- live hard race harder |
Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 21 Dec 12 at 2:28pm
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I bought mine at a similar age- you're very lucky to have a fleet to practice with; I think it will make all the difference to how quickly you get to a point of just loving it rather than loving it and falling in all the time. Happy sailing! ------------- |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 21 Dec 12 at 2:54pm
Well there you go then at that age I'd have risked everything and not batted an eyelid and at that height and weight I'd say you'll go as far as it is possible to in it and good luck to you. Me, I was 57 and weighed 10 1/2 stone and hadn't really sailed a dinghy before, so it was probably in hindsite a bit of an ask, but it shouldn't be was my point, there's nothing I shouldn't be able to do - it is written.
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Posted By: L123456
Date Posted: 21 Dec 12 at 4:04pm
Sounds like you are ready for a keelboat or perhaps a cat ... even Solo sailors capsize sometime.
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Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 21 Dec 12 at 5:06pm
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Well racing windsurfers don't, not ever.
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Posted By: Dougal
Date Posted: 21 Dec 12 at 5:27pm
They don't fall in either. No sir. Never. ------------- What could possibly go wrong? |
Posted By: bristolmustoskiff
Date Posted: 21 Dec 12 at 6:10pm
Thank you pond monkey! ------------- live hard race harder |