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Topic: uni
Posted By: southcoast
Subject: uni
Date Posted: 18 Aug 06 at 4:44pm
| anyone here get into uni, if so which one? im in at bournemouth hopefully there will be some sailing there |
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Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 18 Aug 06 at 7:29pm
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Im going all northern... heading to a joint glasgow/strathclyde course doing Naval Architecture/Marine Engineering. Very Chuffed, but I might need to reconsider my anti-drysuit opinions... ------------- |
Posted By: Calum_Reid
Date Posted: 18 Aug 06 at 9:26pm
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hell no i intend to sail in my shortie till atleast october! Then its a 3mm wetsuit all the way thru the winter. Oh im into the exact same course in the same place as ben! ------------- 
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Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 19 Aug 06 at 4:14am
I'm into Southmapton (the propper uni) to do Oceanography with French (don't ask). So theres going to be lots of sailing there  ------------- http://theramblingsofmyinnergeek.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: ianwat2212
Date Posted: 19 Aug 06 at 10:26am
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I got into Trinity Hall, Cambridge to read maths with physics. It's sad I know, but I enjoy it, and I'm well relieved I got my offer. ------------- Fireball RSA 14723 Simonis 35 "Scarlet Sun" SA 1500 Royal Cape Yacht Club |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 19 Aug 06 at 5:42pm
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So you'll be sailing at Grafham? Bring the RS800 along ------------- 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: ianwat2212
Date Posted: 19 Aug 06 at 5:45pm
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I might bring it if it's likely that I'll find someone to sail it with. I was going to sell it as my current crew isn't going to uni. ------------- Fireball RSA 14723 Simonis 35 "Scarlet Sun" SA 1500 Royal Cape Yacht Club |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 19 Aug 06 at 5:48pm
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we can always find you a crew (well it's worth a post on The GWSC forum or the notice board ) ------------- 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: tgruitt
Date Posted: 19 Aug 06 at 6:28pm
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argh wish i went to uni earlier, still got another year of college, then uni! Southampton but the other one not the 'proper' one as KnightMare calls it
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Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 19 Aug 06 at 6:45pm
teeehee, enjoy those few blessed years of idleness. After 15 years of mortgage, marriage, kids and jobs, my uni years are just a hazy memory on the horizon  ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC 
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Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 19 Aug 06 at 7:59pm
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im off to plymouth to study civil and coastal engineering a few other forumites are going so cant wait ------------- lifes to short to sail slow boats! RIP Olympic Tornado 1976-2007 |
Posted By: stuarthop
Date Posted: 19 Aug 06 at 9:34pm
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hmmphh makes me regret being an apprentice untill i remember all the debts you'll all be in!!
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Posted By: timnoyce
Date Posted: 19 Aug 06 at 9:57pm
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Shut it hoppy! Debt is cool!
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Posted By: gonzo
Date Posted: 20 Aug 06 at 9:45am
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Oh yes hurricane freshers term is all upon us. Off to plymouth in 3 weeks!!! Any one got any easy money making ideas without that awful 3 letter word beginning with J and ending in B ------------- Go Big or Go home or sail a 49er!!! |
Posted By: timnoyce
Date Posted: 20 Aug 06 at 9:59am
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i've got 2..... MUM and DAD. haha
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Posted By: jpbuzz591
Date Posted: 21 Aug 06 at 11:14am
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is that the voice of experience speaking there TT? ------------- Jp Indoe Contender 518 Buzz591 Chew Valley Sailing club Bristol |
Posted By: tack'ho
Date Posted: 21 Aug 06 at 12:11pm
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To all who are Plymouth bound...excellent decision, best of luck and never forget the Institute of Marine Studies gave a honary to degree to Robert Maxwell (Not that you'll know who that is!) ------------- I might be sailing it, but it's still sh**e! |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 21 Aug 06 at 1:58pm
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Question for those whove done the whole uni team racing thing... I checked up after TTs comment and strathclyde do run a fleet of 200s for team racing. What happens when they race against other unis who seam to predominantly use larks/fireflys/laser 2s? Im guessing they must borrow boats... but then why spend all that money buying 200s to train in when they are totaly different to the boats which will be raced? ------------- |
Posted By: timnoyce
Date Posted: 21 Aug 06 at 2:29pm
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If they have a fleet of 6 RS200's then they sail together. 2 teams of 3 boats. What probably happens is that when they go to events they have one string of 200's and then another string of 2's or fireflys depending on how many teams have entered, how much space they have etc. I prefer the idea of I14 team racing... they know the score  ------------- http://www.facebook.com/bearfootdesign - BEARFOOT DESIGN Cherub 2648 - Comfortably Numb |
Posted By: Chris Noble
Date Posted: 21 Aug 06 at 2:36pm
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firstly im on the same course as ben and calum but ben i should warn you that strathclyde no longer have their 200's from what i hear. Thye sold them a long time ago. However i'm good m8s with the commodore of the glasgow sailign club and they are about to get a brand new fleet of fireflys for the new season. i've been weighing up the option all summer of which uni team to join as im sure your aware we can join either but i think im going to join glasgow as everyyear for the past 4 i have helped at SUSA and the glasgow team jsut seem to have so much more fun where as the strath team are very very elitest and DO NOT DRINK AT EVENTS! now what is that all about! ------------- http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=561 - Competitive Boat Insurance From Noble Marine FOR SALE: I14 2 Masts 2 poles 3 Booms, Foils Kites/Mains/Jibs too many to list. |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 21 Aug 06 at 3:04pm
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They still claim to be sailing 200s on their website but i didnt check how in-date it was. Strathclyde dont drink? screw that... im with glasgow! ------------- |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 21 Aug 06 at 3:19pm
Sounds like a bet to me... ------------- |
Posted By: Chris Noble
Date Posted: 21 Aug 06 at 3:24pm
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one to be settled this weekend isis? Well when i was on the tall ship for a week i consistantly out drank a group of jordie lads, not only in holland but on their home turf in Newcastle not that theres an underlying message ther at all ------------- http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=561 - Competitive Boat Insurance From Noble Marine FOR SALE: I14 2 Masts 2 poles 3 Booms, Foils Kites/Mains/Jibs too many to list. |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 21 Aug 06 at 3:34pm
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Posted By: Ellie
Date Posted: 21 Aug 06 at 4:02pm
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erm u what...pics? i fully sold out on callum and isis, was meant to be going to glasgow to do nav arch, but now im off to soton to do ship science and small craft des. im starting to regret it now but at least i shouldn't need to invest in a dry suit! and i can still race merlins hum...how rubbish is this weather!?! all i want is to go and play frizbee but its properly raining! boooooo!
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Posted By: tack'ho
Date Posted: 21 Aug 06 at 4:26pm
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Not a bad summary TT a few corrections though. 1, Classy Jesmond? Not any more. Full of Stag dos and hen parties from down south getting wasted on stella and shots. 2, Student population handling their liquor. Not the Posh ones who seem to come for Newcastle uni they just mince about in pashmenas (boys n all) sipping bleeding chardonay or poxy bottled lager, pretending they didn't really want to go to Cambridge or Oxford (or Exeter or Durham). 3. None of the finest drinkers in Newcastle are to found in town, at least folks from out of town will never find them. They tend to leave the irritating loud non-ale selling establishments for the local chavs and visitors. 4. Brown ale is evil
------------- I might be sailing it, but it's still sh**e! |
, but ordering it in a pint glass is funnyPosted By: Chris Noble
Date Posted: 21 Aug 06 at 10:10pm
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Dry suit you wimp! Ive sailed clean through the last two winters up here in my 3/4 hikers a HH thermal layer 2 rash vests and an aquafleece with some decent gloves and rooster hiking boots. Maybe a hat an sunnioes to keep the snow at bay so you can at least see where your going ------------- http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=561 - Competitive Boat Insurance From Noble Marine FOR SALE: I14 2 Masts 2 poles 3 Booms, Foils Kites/Mains/Jibs too many to list. |
Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 22 Aug 06 at 3:14am
Hey another soton girl, which one u going to Ellie. CAtch u at the freshers events  ------------- http://theramblingsofmyinnergeek.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: gonzo
Date Posted: 22 Aug 06 at 12:07pm
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Come on there has to be some better looking girls going to plymouth than Hurricane. It could be a really deprerssing sailing scene if that all i have to look at and talk to. ------------- Go Big or Go home or sail a 49er!!! |
Posted By: Ellie
Date Posted: 22 Aug 06 at 3:37pm
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whoo hoo! im going to the proper one too! when is freshers? im not at all organised where are you staying? im in glen eyre halls me thinks. oh yeah and chris thats not normal!!! it was chuffing freezing there in the summer when i did 420 nats at helensbr. your crazy! |
guessing first week of oct from accom and that.Posted By: nathan
Date Posted: 22 Aug 06 at 4:48pm
| Your right Ellie, I did those nationals... it was cold, raining and miserable all week. They all claimed it had been sunny until we all turned up.. yeah right guys |
Posted By: Chris Noble
Date Posted: 22 Aug 06 at 7:49pm
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you guys just arent immune to the cold then scottish sunshine consits of small droplets of H20 falling from teh sky really, its a real strange occurance to see that odd firey thing in the sky... nah just kiddin for u guys coming up here weve had a really impressive summer this year and for those that dont believe ive got photos of the hikers in winter
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Posted By: lasergurl
Date Posted: 22 Aug 06 at 7:54pm
I'm going to plymouth to study Ocean sciences :) ------------- LOOK AT MY PHOTOS!!! http://minimexicola.deviantart.com/gallery ^^ my photography work ^^ |
Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 22 Aug 06 at 9:17pm
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thanks mate..... but i do look good in a skirt wohooo thats one more for plymouth lasergurl!!! anyone else?? ------------- lifes to short to sail slow boats! RIP Olympic Tornado 1976-2007 |
Posted By: gonzo
Date Posted: 22 Aug 06 at 10:18pm
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oh yes this is going to be one messy wednesday 13th!!!! bring out the drinking games lets get this freshers year on a role. ------------- Go Big or Go home or sail a 49er!!! |
Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 22 Aug 06 at 10:31pm
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if u ask the fed week boys i got some people in a lot of trouble with my drinking games and they wouldnt play some of them --- wimps ------------- lifes to short to sail slow boats! RIP Olympic Tornado 1976-2007 |
Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 23 Aug 06 at 1:30am
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Hey ellie I think im in Glen Eyre too but im not sure my rents sorted it out for me so im not even sure that I got the halls I wanted but I know I have been accepted to somewhere. Erm I have no idea on freshers week either, still trying to sort that from the other side of the world - not having much luck. let me know if u find out ------------- http://theramblingsofmyinnergeek.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Blobby
Date Posted: 23 Aug 06 at 1:33am
Ahh Soton...the joys of almost being garotted on the Flowers Estate, students being beaten up by 12 year olds and pregnant women with umbrellas, being so close to the Solent but sailing on the Spinnaker puddle at Ringwood, a bar called Titanics in the Union that was burnt out within 3 days of opening, beers at the Black Cat and The Gate and being told to leave the piano alone, the "Glen is the only place to be" superiority complex... ...if you're doing Oceanography and French the joys of trekking from ocean village up to the main campus and back... ...but if you do the Sh!t Science course you are being groomed for Cherubdom... Stratchclyde and Glasgow is the much better option (presuming they still sail down at Largs) and combine that with a pint of heavy and a nip in front of the fire at the uisge beatha, and the fact that sunny days are very nippy
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Posted By: Chris Noble
Date Posted: 23 Aug 06 at 9:42am
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nippy my arse!, as im sure all you cherub folk visiting this weekend will find out... Anyway yes SUSA is still held at largs, Glasgow train at Bardowie Loch Strathclyde, well i dont know where Strathclyde train as when they used to have the 200's they trained at Castle Semple Loch but C.S. Loch has silted up and the 200's are no longer there and have been sold. So as they have no dinghies at present i presume they do not train. They do have one yacht though but its reeady for the scrap pile and is so small it should be a dinghy. But Glasgow are getting new Fireflys and by the sounds of it if Ben has any sense he'll keep Numb at Largs so some of us will be sailing at Largs regardless i know some of the Glasgow team do at present anyway. I'll be keeping the 300 there as its def. the only place to be on the Clyde. ------------- http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=561 - Competitive Boat Insurance From Noble Marine FOR SALE: I14 2 Masts 2 poles 3 Booms, Foils Kites/Mains/Jibs too many to list. |
Posted By: tack'ho
Date Posted: 23 Aug 06 at 9:54am
finest course in the land, let me know if the fitzroy building has fallen down and a pat on the back to anyone who can tell me who Fitzroy was! edit. and no googling you cheating little monkeys, ive read the newspapers about how you all pass your coursework ------------- I might be sailing it, but it's still sh**e! |
Posted By: Lucy Lee
Date Posted: 23 Aug 06 at 12:02pm
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Would that be Fitzroy of the Shipping Forecast fame? ------------- Fly Cherub! |
Posted By: tack'ho
Date Posted: 23 Aug 06 at 12:05pm
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The area is also named after him, and is a good clue. ------------- I might be sailing it, but it's still sh**e! |
Posted By: Lucy Lee
Date Posted: 23 Aug 06 at 12:50pm
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Well quite. He is the father of the shipping forecast & founder of the met office. The area was named after him very recently: it used to be called Finisterre but the French RFI forecast also has a sea area called Finisterre, which is completely different to ours. I think that in the interests of 'diplomacy' we changed to Fitzroy but kept the slightly politically sensitive Trafalgar ------------- Fly Cherub! |
.Posted By: lozza
Date Posted: 23 Aug 06 at 1:01pm
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But surely trafalgar is named after cape trafalgar near cadiz or do the french and spanish want to call it something nondescript? ------------- Life's a reach, then you gybe |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 23 Aug 06 at 5:19pm
Will probibly be picking up some membership forms this weekend. Numb should be heading north with me if I get her a bit more sorted but if not then the 600 will come instead and largs is definantly looking like the club of choice. One of them has to come with me anyway... think my grandads sense of humor about me leaving 4 boats in his front garden might start to fail at some point. ------------- |
Posted By: Chris Noble
Date Posted: 23 Aug 06 at 8:27pm
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just bring both... ------------- http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=561 - Competitive Boat Insurance From Noble Marine FOR SALE: I14 2 Masts 2 poles 3 Booms, Foils Kites/Mains/Jibs too many to list. |
Posted By: 29er397
Date Posted: 23 Aug 06 at 9:32pm
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600, moth or cherub, it doesn't matter because you can race with us on the SSR circuit with any of them! although i think you should bring the 600 because there is going to be so many of them at SSR next year we may have a chance of beating the musto's for numbers at 1 or 2 events! Largs is a great place to sail, nice sailing, nice club and im sure very friendly people. ------------- http://www.kielderwatersc.org - Kielder Water Sailing Club |
Posted By: Chris Noble
Date Posted: 23 Aug 06 at 11:03pm
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Fergus are you coming to Largs in Sept? ------------- http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=561 - Competitive Boat Insurance From Noble Marine FOR SALE: I14 2 Masts 2 poles 3 Booms, Foils Kites/Mains/Jibs too many to list. |