Windsurfing round Britain
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Topic: Windsurfing round Britain
Posted By: furtive
Subject: Windsurfing round Britain
Date Posted: 19 Mar 15 at 8:47am
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This is slightly off topic, but may well be of interest. This summer Jono Dunnett will be attempting to windsurf around Britain without a water-based support team. Lots of details on his website ( http://windsurfroundbritain.co.uk/" rel="nofollow - http://windsurfroundbritain.co.uk/ ), and if you or your sailing club are near the coast and would be willing to offer support please get in touch with him ( http://windsurfroundbritain.co.uk/local-contact-network" rel="nofollow - http://windsurfroundbritain.co.uk/local-contact-network ). Thanks, you can now return to arguing about handicap systems...
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Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 19 Mar 15 at 9:04am
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'without a water based support'
Other than the RNLI that is. Why should what, on the face of it, looks like foolhardiness be considered admirable or worthy of support? Without any assistance from water based support would be reasonable, same principle cross channel swimmers use. To be without it completely is another matter entirely, especially if things go wrong and other parties have to go and pick up his corpse. |
Posted By: Woodburner
Date Posted: 19 Mar 15 at 9:15am
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Hope he's taking some spare UJ's in a back pack and what sort of support is he requiring? Club Floor for the night? Food? Drink? It's been done, twice no three times before I seem to remember the last two made a race of it but I'm pretty sure they all had some sort of escort, if only to radio ahead to let wherever they're landing know how soon they'll touch down. So how is everyone going to know indeed wether he did it, rather than nipping round the corner coming ashore and driving a bit? Don't tell me, he's using Strava, or 'find my iPhone'.
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Posted By: turnturtle
Date Posted: 19 Mar 15 at 9:31am
I must be getting old Jim... I've got an overwhelming sense of agreement building when I know I ought to be telling you to 'do one' and 'go find your spirit of adventure'..... Good luck to him though, but as Graeme says, I'm pretty sure it's been done before. What's with the barrels though? Is that like moveable ballast? Windsurfing with keels?  |
Posted By: furtive
Date Posted: 19 Mar 15 at 11:08am
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Yes, it's been done before, but always with support boats. The barrel is purely a storage solution to carry the essentials required (no doubt including spare UJs!). Tracking will be GPS-based, and fully visible on the website. Support - GRF, you are on the right lines - somewhere to sleep and a hot meal. And Jim, feel free not to admire or support. I hope others might view this slightly more positively.
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Posted By: Woodburner
Date Posted: 19 Mar 15 at 11:23am
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Well he can kip over at our club (H&SSC) and there is board storage, not sure how the news is going to be taken of 'some bloke windsurfing round Great Britain in a barrel' but the offers there and no I'm not going to fill in another lame website. Without support seriously I can't see him/you making it, without sail change down, spare masts, booms which likely will break at some point during a journey like that and of course at that point when you least require it, off some cliff bound no access shoreline in a tidal rip cross chop, he'd be better coming down to our place and trying a channel crossing there and back see if he/you could do that first, just my three happorth for what its worth. ------------- https://www.ease-distribution.com/moses" rel="nofollow - Foil fun |
Posted By: Jack Sparrow
Date Posted: 19 Mar 15 at 11:50am
Good Luck to him! He's got mine. ------------- http://www.uk3-7class.org/index.html" rel="nofollow - Farr 3.7 Class Website https://www.facebook.com/groups/1092602470772759/" rel="nofollow - Farr 3.7 Building - Facebook Group |
Posted By: alstorer
Date Posted: 19 Mar 15 at 4:10pm
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I'm rather with Jim I'm afraid. Good luck to him- I hope he doesn't need to count on the ever-present support crew. Doing it without his own support puts not just himself but volunteer rescue crews at risk. ------------- -_ Al |
Posted By: Oli
Date Posted: 19 Mar 15 at 4:27pm
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with or without a support crew the potential need for the RNLI to pay a courtesy call is the same surely, if not even more likely as the support rib may also require support. ------------- https://skiff-media.teemill.com/" rel="nofollow - T-SHIRTS https://www.photo4me.com/profile/23908/" rel="nofollow - PRINTS |
Posted By: Strangler
Date Posted: 19 Mar 15 at 7:04pm
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Not wishing to condone an unsupported attempt but a couple of friends did windsurf from Hayling to Africa, the only support [apart from each other-a big factor] was a camper van... and me texting weather forecasts each morning. I had to teach them how to use a Macmillans Almanac and a few navigational tips.
http://www.windsurftheworld.org/ The only major incidents were of an international political nature! They took a few weeks off each summer and put an X on the rocks at the end to return to next year [99-06]. I joined them on the water on the Iberian Biscay leg. It was the hardest sailing I have ever done. Mostly light winds and BIG swell. We used IMCO raceboards -user friendly and rig depowered easily. For a taste of what might be- http://www.windsurftheworld.org/page0035v01.htm |
Posted By: Strangler
Date Posted: 19 Mar 15 at 7:21pm
PS. We always had charts- stuck to the sail. Pre app days but wouldn't rely on electronics.
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Posted By: Rob.e
Date Posted: 19 Mar 15 at 8:33pm
| Strangler, that is remarkable! I have Tim Batstones book about the original round Britain Windsurf, and with the kit available then that was really something. I guess I am happy to see someone doing something challenging, but can't say I'm inspired by someone repeating a feat that was achieved in 1985(?) and doing it without support, which may invite negative coverage in this day and age. If they did it quietly and took the lessons into their lives, all power to them, it's just the publicity I'm not comfortable with in this case, sorry! |
Posted By: Jack Sparrow
Date Posted: 19 Mar 15 at 11:08pm
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It's pretty difficult to get any money for Pancreatic Cancer and Tanzanian Orphanages if you don't publicise it! ------------- http://www.uk3-7class.org/index.html" rel="nofollow - Farr 3.7 Class Website https://www.facebook.com/groups/1092602470772759/" rel="nofollow - Farr 3.7 Building - Facebook Group |
Posted By: sargesail
Date Posted: 20 Mar 15 at 7:52am
| I wonder how much slower he'll be than the Wayfarer? |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 20 Mar 15 at 8:12am
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He'll have to stop to rest a lot more often, so I'd have thought that would easily negate any speed advantage.
I wish him all the best with this venture. I assume he has land based support with spare kit who can meet him when going round, and he is an experience offshore windsurfer, so he knows far more than me about the risks. ------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: Woodburner
Date Posted: 20 Mar 15 at 10:11am
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Apparently the experience includes two failed round the IOW attempts, so well set for it. ------------- https://www.ease-distribution.com/moses" rel="nofollow - Foil fun |
Posted By: johnreekie1980
Date Posted: 20 Mar 15 at 9:22pm
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People need to lighten up a bit. He is undertaking a challenge and I for one have offered him a bed for the night. Even if he does need a rnli rescue on his travels it is no different to the many idiots that personally I would not go and rescue. All this talk of risking rescuers lives is it any different to the rich guy in his gunboat 50 getting helod off in the Atlantic a couple of weeks ago. Do a lot of rnli volunteers die every year given the excellent training and equipment they have.
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