Dr Clifford

   You will get locked up 4 talking to yourself and i think you need to change your avitar dont you ?

May see my old boat then as that is where it went

yes nessie broke my crew last time round got extra ballast for this attempt

if i remember right nessie got you too last time will you be at the club on sunday if so will bring along the entry fee and form 

8 entries expected from my club HSC , are we up for a highest entry from one club prize , a crate of laughing water to share would do

my entry posted yesterday .

 "assume you know your SCHRS rating for your machine? Bearing in mind the
ratings changes? Have you changed everything about lately?"

blatently aware of it ! schrs dudes  wont allow my reduced waterline length because I was too poor to get it measured officially pre jan 2007 !!

although slow boats like Tors ,5.9s etc get it as theirs  was measured for  them

and yes there has bin some changes -

you'll see my form for current rating soon , in post

(I like cats too - looking at me you would think I'd eaten a whole one !)

Catmandoo,

I encouraged you (a number of times) to get your boat measured last year.  Boats typically cost about 60 quid to get measured.

yup read my statement above - I was too poor ,yup £60 squids (thats 4 bottles of malt or 12 bottles of paint stripper !)  a fair bit to me , you told me  in october 2006 .  not exactly the time of year to get suitable conditions and daylight to measure waterlines , coupled with getting a busy measurer to do it , non starter !

Still think that when  a rule makes retrospective allowances , it should be on manufactured dates (everyone else seems to do this in other areas ) , I trust all other pre jan 2007 boats that have been built but not measured will be treated the same .

anyway its all irrelevant in this topic , racing nessie is what its all about .

you coming up or other f16's fra blast

I also told you over the phone earlier on in the year and also via email when calculating your old rating.

Edit, and to answer your other questions, yes any new boats (such as say putting a larger rig on an F18, different rig on a Tornado etc would get measured under the new rules. 

No, not planning to bring the F16 to see nessie, I'm flat out at work over that period I am afraid.  Looks like it will be the ECPR and then Grafham for the yest of my opens for the year

Will there be a full set of antries posted before the event?

Macca is looking forward to it says he should have recovered from the Archipelago Raid. Wants to know if the water will be warmer though!

I am proud to stand alongside OZ man and declare myself a slacker...

Truth is I can't find my cheque book

Come on Nessie

Time to Name and shame the entrants and those that pressure should be applied to!!

well one day to go and crews have been arriving since yesterday morning, I don't want to jinx this but at the moment the weather forecast is fantastic so if you have been swithering about making the trip north go on just do it

Richie

Results ?

Gossip ?

It was a fantastic race. A setting in beauty 2nd to none. A race every cat sailor should do. Food at the Dorres In  is great and the hospitality by the hosts was good, hope the rest of the competitors had such a good race, plenty to talk of in the bar after the race.

Basillica almost didn't make it to all the marks 1st, they made it to the 1st by a few feet over a Tornado and a Tek-kat and then ran away as the wind built.

Think we raced in all conditions and all points of sailing were covered just going into 1 mark!!!! Not sure if it was sure determination or the bigger sail plan that helped! 

 A truely F*kin awesome event once again ,

Winner Andy Mac Pherson who had travelled from Australia to take part likened it to Texcel and the Archiapeligo raid which he had recently completed  in stature of challenge , and a race that has to be done !!!

Nessys' breath eventually came to fruition after a slow start 90% of the distance must have been covered in wind that reportedly exceeded 30 knts !! and was totally mind and body numbing FANTASTIC !!, the highs and lows you go through on such a long race in such winds is absolutely amazing and something everycat sailor should experience , the fleet was over 40 boats and despite crews being totally exhausted all vowed to return .

I covered a distance of 50.1 mile and only two capsizes !!!

Can't wait for the next one .

Was also awesome to see the likes of Basillica racing and the beautifully built Tekcat ,

I predict this event has more "monsterous" growth still to come as the word of Nessie now spreads world wide as Nessieites gabble insessantly over a pint when ever the opportunity arises .

If you weren't there you certainly missed out on one of the most challenging and awesome distance races we are lucky to have in the UK .

As they sang at closing time in the pubs of Glasgow in days gone by "come on and have a go "  are you up to it ?

There will be more

Many thanks to Chris Browing and the SNECCA team and the sponsorhip by MDI, Blaser Chiropractic , JJ Cats ,Cairngorm Brewery , DH Systems and the Dores Inn was most appreciated.

And the Farmer who kindly gives the use of his field without which the event would be impossible .

                  (I like Lochness - but couldn't swallow it whole - tried !)

Can only echo the above sentiments absolutely bloody awesome...

thanks to everyone who made it possible and who turned up and raced it making it the event it was.

body still hurts too much to type any more, though many stories still to be told

redhotchilicat.

Bugga, just about pursuaded wifee that I really need to go to Scotland next year !

Will get macca to put it in his diary.... not sure if GBR 406 will be there, a second trip down and up the loch or is it up and down, Nessie might not be so gentle with her next time!!!! but will make sure we do our best to be there in something.

After this weekend I now know how clothes feel in a washing machine on a cold wash!!! Beginning to find the bruises.

Just to repeat what everyone else has said a fantastic event.

will just have to try and not break anything next time!

anyone want some ripstop nylon that aint so ripstop!

I will be back!

A few photo's anyone.....

Sweet...

Is it me or is the boat just wrong on so many levels???

Looked good, but never really got going....

And the scenery....

Who's your daddy....

And one for luck....

Almost made me want to sail a cat  looked a great event from the beach.  There were thousands watching the start, well me, the wife, the kids, about 5 other people and approximately 22 billion midges!!!!

Well done to all involved

So this is what Nessie looks like.....

Strange I thought she had lots of humps

Captions anyone???

looks like shoelace stuck in main sheet again.....d'oh

A quick note to say a huge well done to Chris, Richtea and all involved in the race, also well sailed Macca and Stu  !!!

Thorougly enjoyed the event even though Nessie mistook the black beast for a rival monster and snapped the rig with her tail !!!! 

See you next time.

Do I remeber rightly that redress would have been granted if you had proof of Nessies interferance?