London Boat Show
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Topic: London Boat Show
Posted By: les5269
Subject: London Boat Show
Date Posted: 05 Jan 06 at 8:23pm
Is anyone going ? I'll be there on Saturday hope to see some of you there,in the guiness bar!  ------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
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Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 05 Jan 06 at 8:33pm
what saturday cos on the 14th they have got the 49er's racing outside. i will be there on the 14th. hope to see someof youy there ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 05 Jan 06 at 8:39pm
I'm going this Saturday  ------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 05 Jan 06 at 8:44pm
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ahh u will miss out. if u have any spare time u should poip down to queen mary's. ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: CurlyBen
Date Posted: 05 Jan 06 at 10:59pm
I'll be there at some point.. if my friend would get back to me I could say when 
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Posted By: headfry
Date Posted: 06 Jan 06 at 3:52pm
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Mr and Mrs Headfry will be going, possibly this Saturday.
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Posted By: 5420
Date Posted: 06 Jan 06 at 5:18pm
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i dont think im going im going to whate for the dinghy show thats alot beter i think ------------- |
Posted By: A Seabadger
Date Posted: 06 Jan 06 at 5:34pm
I'm going on Sunday.  ------------- I don't suffer from insanity...I enjoy every moment of it. |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 06 Jan 06 at 7:55pm
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So it's a meet in the Guiness bar at midday ? Not sure how we can distinguish each other any ideas ------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: jpbuzz591
Date Posted: 06 Jan 06 at 8:49pm
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Everybody wear a white coranation in their lapel ------------- Jp Indoe Contender 518 Buzz591 Chew Valley Sailing club Bristol |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 06 Jan 06 at 9:17pm
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Mmmmmm ok thats an idea!
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Posted By: A Seabadger
Date Posted: 06 Jan 06 at 9:39pm
I don't have one though  ------------- I don't suffer from insanity...I enjoy every moment of it. |
Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 06 Jan 06 at 10:25pm
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Hey guys do have to say the show is quite good, kept bumping into people I knew and being handed glasses of champagne If your going in the week chaeck out the Tall Ships Youth Trust Stand. ------------- http://theramblingsofmyinnergeek.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 06 Jan 06 at 10:35pm
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Cool thanks for that will try and get there
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Posted By: CurlyBen
Date Posted: 06 Jan 06 at 10:35pm
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Anything in particular to look out for?
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Posted By: maxim
Date Posted: 06 Jan 06 at 11:32pm
| Knightmare -you on the tall ships stand?? |
Posted By: Harry44981!
Date Posted: 08 Jan 06 at 12:45pm
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Went yesterday, it was great fun- I think I'll just keep on dreamin' about some of the big boats there! Totally missed the Y&Y stand unfortunately, but I met Shirley Robertson and James May which is nearly as good! ------------- |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 08 Jan 06 at 1:49pm
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On ITV now. Suzi Perry ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 08 Jan 06 at 2:06pm
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imagine that! drooooooool ------------- lifes to short to sail slow boats! RIP Olympic Tornado 1976-2007 |
i think top gear should become a boat and car program 
!!!!Posted By: Richbower2663
Date Posted: 08 Jan 06 at 5:16pm
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can you imagine the carnage though if they did a celebrity lap thing...which boat would they use? 49er? ------------- Rich Bower selling 49er #701 |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 08 Jan 06 at 5:23pm
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a 9er probibly doesnt fit with the 'star in a reasonably priced.. ' thing
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Posted By: jpbuzz591
Date Posted: 08 Jan 06 at 7:46pm
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probabley use something like a 2000 or something. Also i think that top gear/ boat show has already combined as James May was presenting the show on TV and last year it was richard hammond presenting it ------------- Jp Indoe Contender 518 Buzz591 Chew Valley Sailing club Bristol |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 08 Jan 06 at 8:17pm
na cos the 2000 would have to be crewed by someone else. i reckon a pico. cheap and genrally sh*t boats. ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 08 Jan 06 at 9:05pm
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thats too sh*t though... maby a contender? still mad enough for laughs but can be considered 'reasonable' ------------- |
Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 09 Jan 06 at 7:51pm
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ok so who is going to boat show this sat coming? and who wants to meet in the guiness bar?
would be really cool to meet some of u guys and gals! ------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: jpbuzz591
Date Posted: 09 Jan 06 at 7:53pm
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What about being crewed by the "sea stig" ------------- Jp Indoe Contender 518 Buzz591 Chew Valley Sailing club Bristol |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 09 Jan 06 at 8:03pm
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yer thats an idea!! or what about the vago that is a crap boat and u could put the celeb on the trapeze now that would be funny. i am going on saturday, they have got the 9ers racing outside!! my bets on the allgoodfun.com boat. ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 09 Jan 06 at 8:05pm
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yep hurricane and sailor girl will be attending the boat show this sat anyone else up for meeting at the guinness bar.... ------------- lifes to short to sail slow boats! RIP Olympic Tornado 1976-2007 |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 09 Jan 06 at 8:06pm
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yer i am up for that. what time will u be there?
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Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 09 Jan 06 at 8:14pm
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whats ur mob number will give u a ring if u like? ------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 09 Jan 06 at 8:26pm
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yer that sounds good. i have pm'd u my mob number. see ya there. ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 09 Jan 06 at 8:37pm
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see ya soon ------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: A Seabadger
Date Posted: 09 Jan 06 at 9:08pm
I went yesterday  it was very good and I picked up a fantastic amount of freebees .
Advice for those who are going, the cheepest food we found was in the RYA members lounge. They didn't even bother asking my group if we were members (none of us are sure if we are anyway) ------------- I don't suffer from insanity...I enjoy every moment of it. |
Posted By: CurlyBen
Date Posted: 09 Jan 06 at 9:26pm
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I'll be there on Friday or Saturday (sure I've already said that but I will be this time!) trying to find a job!
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Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 09 Jan 06 at 10:15pm
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curly ben u trying to get a job abroad try markwarner i think its matt u need to spk to! ------------- lifes to short to sail slow boats! RIP Olympic Tornado 1976-2007 |
Posted By: CurlyBen
Date Posted: 09 Jan 06 at 10:33pm
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Thanks Hurricane not really figured out where I want to work yet, I've
got a good offer from a place in Scotland but they're not paying much
so I'm thinking of looking around a bit. Cheers tho!
------------- RS800 GBR848 Weston SC |
Posted By: Jamie600
Date Posted: 10 Jan 06 at 11:13am
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Did anyone else think the Boat Show on TV was a bit, well, crap?
They started off saying that they would be focussing on how to start sailing if yo are new to the sport, but (powerboats aside) the cheapest sailing boat they featured was £180k, no dinghies apart from Philippa Forrester doing lengths of the pool in a Pico while making lots of little squealing noises. They mentioned the Olympics but where were the shots of our team in action? Plus at one point I thought I was watching Ready Steady Cook! |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 14 Jan 06 at 4:02pm
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Seemed everyone went to the boat show today hope you all enjoyed it, and left some Guiness in the bar for the people going tomorrow ------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 14 Jan 06 at 5:50pm
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na the boat show was good today big thatnks to sailor girl, hurricane and ben for saving me from looking round the non sailing related stands with my mum. the 49er racing was good when they got the wind in between the buildings. the team from bough beach won (allgoodfun.com boat) ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: Ian29937
Date Posted: 14 Jan 06 at 9:51pm
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At one stage today the leading 49ers was beating and the next boat 2-3 boat lengths behind was flying his genniker on the opposite tack. A lot of respect to the teams for putting on the show in far from ideal wind conditions. Thanks Ian |
Posted By: CurlyBen
Date Posted: 14 Jan 06 at 11:56pm
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Got my money's worth out of my ticket, didn't leave till 7! I've got
some photos from the show - I've got some of the new osprey cos I
thought some people may want them! - but haven't got them off my dad's
camera yet. I've got some shots of the 49ers as well, I'll agree that
Royal Vic dock's horrible to sail on, it's even worse further up! I've
raced on there before and the home team often used a windward mark that
could only be reached on one tack due to the wind shadows. Often gave
them an advantage in the first race.. I'll try and get some photos up tomorrow and was nice meeting everyone I did! ------------- RS800 GBR848 Weston SC |
Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 15 Jan 06 at 1:26pm
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heya, was good to meet you...im waiting to see the SB3 piccy! lol!!! and maybe not that other one of the skiff!!!!!!!!!
------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: CurlyBen
Date Posted: 15 Jan 06 at 5:46pm
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but need to show that pic to prove they had 14 and 16ft skiffs at the show! I'll have the SB3 pics tonight.. ------------- RS800 GBR848 Weston SC |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 15 Jan 06 at 6:06pm
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Thay had a 16 at the boat show? definantly need pics of that, didnt think there were any in the country!
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Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 15 Jan 06 at 6:10pm
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yes it was a beast of a skiff. show them the pics ben. ha ha ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 15 Jan 06 at 6:21pm
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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 15 Jan 06 at 7:22pm
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think the term development comes to mind! ------------- lifes to short to sail slow boats! RIP Olympic Tornado 1976-2007 |
Posted By: CurlyBen
Date Posted: 15 Jan 06 at 7:35pm
Here's the 16ft skiff then!  49ers in the dock     SB3 for sailor girl  Sorry for the length of the post! ------------- RS800 GBR848 Weston SC |
Posted By: redback
Date Posted: 15 Jan 06 at 7:46pm
| Thanks for the pictures. I've been to Bough Beech today and found out that Richard Bone and Chris Rodway on All-Good-Fun won all 3 races in the Sunsail 49er Regatta at the Boat Show. Well done fellas - Bough Beech sailors certainly know how to sail in the shifty stuff. |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 15 Jan 06 at 8:25pm
STOP PLAYING WITH MY EMOTIONS LIKE THAT! I warn you, Im a very unstable person right now...  ------------- |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 15 Jan 06 at 8:27pm
Oh, and: 
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Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 15 Jan 06 at 8:40pm
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you're very demanding Isis ------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 15 Jan 06 at 9:24pm
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Thats what she said...
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Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 15 Jan 06 at 9:30pm
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So your kn******d too !!!!! ------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: CurlyBen
Date Posted: 15 Jan 06 at 10:46pm
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Sorry Isis
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Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 16 Jan 06 at 2:41pm
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sounds like all of you guys had fun who went on sat, its realy annoying cause if I had been home fri night I would have been able to see the posts and caught up with you guys. And yeh we went one better than the guinnes bar, Tanqueray gin had a free gin bar thing.. now that was funny. I currently dont have any pics though may b able to get some of the band that was there on thursday night. ------------- http://theramblingsofmyinnergeek.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: CurlyBen
Date Posted: 16 Jan 06 at 4:49pm
I saw that on Saturday, problem was only noticed 5 minutes before the show closed! What band was there on Thursday? ------------- RS800 GBR848 Weston SC |
Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 16 Jan 06 at 4:55pm
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he he, thankyou for my SB3 piccy!!!! ------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 16 Jan 06 at 7:32pm
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There was a band in the East hall in the eve but we arent sure who they were or what they were there for. ------------- http://theramblingsofmyinnergeek.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: CurlyBen
Date Posted: 16 Jan 06 at 11:59pm
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hehe you know the skiff pic's the best one
Were you working there or something Knightmare? Or did you just go a lot ------------- RS800 GBR848 Weston SC |
Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 17 Jan 06 at 3:59pm
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lol I was working there some of the time but I went on Fri thurs eve and sat when I wasnt working - oh the advantages of an exhibitor pass. It meant I could have interview with out having to pay for a ticket to get in first and the volounteering at the show put me in good stead to go sailing more. ------------- http://theramblingsofmyinnergeek.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: whynot
Date Posted: 17 Jan 06 at 4:49pm
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I didn't make it, any announcements or news? ------------- Don't bullsh*t a bullsh*tter... |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 17 Jan 06 at 4:58pm
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well the guys from bough beech spanked the other 49er sailors to win all 3 races. but it apart from that it was the usall boring boat show. ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: allanorton
Date Posted: 17 Jan 06 at 6:47pm
| Roll on the dinghy show! I'm not really interested in looking at smods, yachts or clothes, so i'll wait for the proper show! |
Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 18 Jan 06 at 12:23pm
Yeah but the 'proper show' doesnt have a Tall Ships stand at  it so il have to find some where else to hang out all weekend, oh thinking about it il b organising the stand for my sis again prob wooohooo------------- http://theramblingsofmyinnergeek.blogspot.com/ |