Fill Me In
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Forum Name: Banter
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Topic: Fill Me In
Posted By: Just Me!!
Subject: Fill Me In
Date Posted: 08 Nov 05 at 10:28pm
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Never Under Any Circumstces...... Fall On the daggerboard of a laser 2000 with shorts on. Bollocks First ------------- When We Are Sailing Downwind See The Wind In My Hair As I Roll You And Wave Goodbye!! |
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Posted By: 49erGBR735HSC
Date Posted: 09 Nov 05 at 3:38am
..........That's not the worst of it, crew lands on new dagger board of 49er, breaks a rib and snaps new daggerboard......... costs helm £  , and brings insurance premium up to more than the daggerboard was worth plus original preium. S, F,No!. Thank god we've not done anything stupid this season......... ------------- Dennis Watson 49er GBR735 http://www.helensburghsailingclub.co.uk/ - Helensburgh S.C http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=560 - Boat Insurance from Noble Marine |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 09 Nov 05 at 7:28pm
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never run a 5000 into a flying fifteen the week before you buy a 49er |
Posted By: radial179102
Date Posted: 13 Nov 05 at 11:02am
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Impaling GP14's with planing laser 3000's is always fun.... ------------- 
Villan is my Bitch ;) |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 13 Nov 05 at 6:46pm
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Was quite windy down here today, went out with a cracking hangover
(awesome party last night) in the moth for the first time since i got
my new rudder. Hooned across the lake, white water reaching at roughly mach 10, cut right through the hordes of team racing fireflies, dodged a couple of lasers and bore away. I stood up as I came in off the tramp and at that moment got hit by a mother of a gust (should have been watching I know...) boat shot forward from under me, lost my balance (propper cartoon banana-skin stylee) and landed on the tiller. that'll be another couple hundred quids worth of carbon then... God I love development classes.. ------------- |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 13 Nov 05 at 6:56pm
Was Watching another 49er tearing downwind (in front of us  )He bore off to miss an rs800 coming upwind.Bang straight into a cat!!! Nice couple of holes in the side of the 49er
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Posted By: Pierre
Date Posted: 13 Nov 05 at 10:11pm
Was T-boned by a Laser 3000 in my Osprey. Small scratch on my paint work, L3000 sufered severe whiplash 
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Posted By: 49erGBR735HSC
Date Posted: 14 Nov 05 at 12:35am
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Ouch! ------------- Dennis Watson 49er GBR735 http://www.helensburghsailingclub.co.uk/ - Helensburgh S.C http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=560 - Boat Insurance from Noble Marine |
Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 14 Nov 05 at 8:49am
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Pierre, Was it similar to the 'black cab' effect....your boat got away with nothing to speak of the Laser 3000 was a bit of a mess (although the Laser 3ks are solidly built apparently)..... Paul ------------- Paul ---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
Posted By: Pierre
Date Posted: 14 Nov 05 at 9:20am
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Paul Yes the 3K's are well built, and the bloody great bang made me jump, but he ended up with a bent and very retracted sprit along with crew winding their way round the mast on the wire. Shouldn't have happened I know, but there you go. There I was apologising for being on starboard, and they just sat there in stunned silence and never said a word! Hey hey, the joys of non contact sport  |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 14 Nov 05 at 9:27am
They probably couldn't hear you any longer... Ears still ringing with the noise of the crash, and brain not looking forward to the increased insurance premium. 
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Posted By: big man is back
Date Posted: 14 Nov 05 at 9:47am
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im not looking forward to paying my boat insurance anymorenot since my claim. how much does it go up anyway when you claim?
------------- maybe theres more to life than being really really really really..........really good looking |
Posted By: Pierre
Date Posted: 14 Nov 05 at 11:12am
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Could be, could be. I don't think the insurance premium was a worry for them. V. Rich Mummy........ Now there's a thought..... BTW BNS we now have more water at Weir Wood. It's up to a whole 32% full. Be still my beating heart. |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 14 Nov 05 at 11:33am
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32% yeeehaa! Can you still see the village? Here in Lancing, we've got 100% some of the time then it drops for a little while then comes back full again... Oh yes, they call it the "tide"!!!! Major drawback in our club: there aren't any rich mums I know of. No rich daddys either, come to think of it... Still, hurry up, 27th Nov is the last sailing day of the year! Next date: Easter... |
You should come and see that sometime... Posted By: Pierre
Date Posted: 14 Nov 05 at 12:26pm
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A couple of small islands have disappeared... Now you can't see what you are going to hit. November 27th!!! Good grief young lady, we sail all year round, and have special prizes for the best decorated boat on Boxing Day. What on earth do you do with yourself for the four months to Easter? (You can whisper the answer if it's very rude |
).Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 14 Nov 05 at 1:38pm
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After the 27th Nov, the club will host a Christmas party for all the little ones (we still have vacancies for the jobs of 'Santa's Little Helper' or 'Rudolph' - Take your pick). We also organise a Sunday lunch once a month - £6 for a 3-course meal with coffee. I usually cook it all and I haven't poisoned anyone yet ! Last year, we had about 40 guests every time. Finally, I'd organised a bike ride with pub lunch last February and I'll try to get something like this going this winter again... As you see, we still keep busy. However, for many Lancing sailors, 27th Nov marks the beginning of a dreaded time: the infamous DIY !!
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Pierre ! I'm a respectable mother and wife........................ in amongst other things... 
Posted By: Pierre
Date Posted: 14 Nov 05 at 2:23pm
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BNS, heaven forfend that you should interpret my light hearted banter as anything but a perfectly respectable piece of throw away jocularity! Well it all sounds very sociable down there in Lancing, but please don't put those 3 letters DIY on a public forum. Forum members partners and spouses may have full view, and it makes for a very uncomfortable time on the home front. Essential boat maintenance is more specific and give a better platform to argue from stop making me laugh please and yes you should be discrete at all times ..... not that there would be anything that would require that kind of discretion of course ... |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 14 Nov 05 at 3:44pm
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What shall we do about forum members have spouses and/or partners who are also members of the same forum? As for Ð1¥, it's something I usually do at home... until he nicks my tools to fix his boat! |
Posted By: Pierre
Date Posted: 14 Nov 05 at 4:21pm
Point 1. Shared interests are great. You dug the hole .... I'm sure you can climb out of it. Point 2 He's a very lucky man. A wife with DIY skills and her own tools. I bet Mr Contender thought he'd died and gone to heaven the day he met you. |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 15 Nov 05 at 1:13am
I'll let him answer that  , although I can tell for sure that the idea of "gone to heaven" has never entered his mind! 
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Posted By: Strawberry
Date Posted: 15 Nov 05 at 7:38am
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Us Cherub sailors have a great winter! We spend 4months cutting our boats
up, then sticking them back together. Or even giving birth to a whole new boat! ------------- Cherub 2649 "Dangerous Strawberry |