what's going on?
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Topic: what's going on?
Posted By: headfry
Subject: what's going on?
Date Posted: 07 Feb 05 at 9:35am
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Has anyone else noticed how many sections there are on the 'funny' side
of sailing. We all seem at the moment to want to see or read about
other peoples misphaps and mistakes!! I have just had a great chuckle on this fog bound monday morning (at work). It got me thinking.....are we all in need of some summer sunshine and those long hours of daylight! it is a sign of SAD - sailing adjustment disorder  I am sure I suffer, as I just love those pics and messages of embarrassing moments etc.PS a huge thanks to all those that have contributed to the embarrassing moments, good on ya!! |
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Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 07 Feb 05 at 10:02am
we are in desperate need of the summer!! bring back shorts, flip-flops and barefoot sailing. i miss the summer  ------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: Brian
Date Posted: 07 Feb 05 at 5:42pm
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im going to nz this summer and it will be winter there, but i bet the
weather will still be better than over here  ------------- |
Posted By: Spot192
Date Posted: 08 Feb 05 at 3:04pm
| i agree with sailor girl. i miss my flip-flops, shorts, skirts and above all &nb sp; &nb sp; 14 SAILING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! where the hell is the summer??? |
Posted By: headfry
Date Posted: 08 Feb 05 at 4:43pm
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Summer was last seen going south, though rumour has it that it is
heading back up north to our shores (and of course - inland waters!)
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Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 08 Feb 05 at 7:30pm
wooooooooh!! get this...i leave school may 19th and have an extra long summer, so while you guys are slaving away at work, im going to be sailing!!  ------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: bigwavedave
Date Posted: 08 Feb 05 at 7:34pm
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I can't wait to get back into my speedo's ------------- 
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Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 08 Feb 05 at 7:39pm
how old are you......  (just joking!) ------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: Spot192
Date Posted: 09 Feb 05 at 12:28pm
| hope summer is hurrying up on itīs way back to our side of the planet! iīm sick of the snow! the aussies got enough sun!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Posted By: Brian
Date Posted: 09 Feb 05 at 4:23pm
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what? in england? are you cold blooded??? ------------- |
Posted By: bigwavedave
Date Posted: 09 Feb 05 at 6:12pm
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39, but I feel the speedos show of my ab to its full extent. (note ab not abs, I only have the one) -------------
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Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 09 Feb 05 at 7:28pm
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yer have to agree with brian the enlish summer is rubbish
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Posted By: stuarthop
Date Posted: 10 Feb 05 at 10:23pm
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was good in the heat wave two years ago though ------------- |
Posted By: Spot192
Date Posted: 11 Feb 05 at 12:17pm
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what does heat wave in england mean? is heat there possible???  |
Posted By: bigwavedave
Date Posted: 11 Feb 05 at 1:09pm
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Tropical Germany, palm trees, sandy beaches, pretty girls, blue seas............. Think I'll stay in England. -------------
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Posted By: sailor.jon
Date Posted: 11 Feb 05 at 1:28pm
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well said dave ------------- Jon Vortex 1169 http://www.yorkshiredales.sc/ - Yorkshire Dales Sailing Club |
Posted By: stuarthop
Date Posted: 11 Feb 05 at 10:44pm
I'd have to agree its more tempting to stay here than to go to germany generally a warmer climate  ------------- |
Posted By: Spot192
Date Posted: 12 Feb 05 at 10:49am
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sorry to disappoint you dave, but iīve never seen blue see in germany.
just the small dark green lakes all in inner germany. if you go up more
to the north, to travemund or kiel it was always raining. pretty girls maybe but the boys arenīt half that handsome. point for england. |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 12 Feb 05 at 11:30am
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Another good point for Britain: irony!
------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC 
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Posted By: bigwavedave
Date Posted: 12 Feb 05 at 3:21pm
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Oh and I forgot, the well known German sense of humour......... -------------
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Posted By: Spot192
Date Posted: 12 Feb 05 at 3:46pm
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hey most of the germans can be very funny! (when theyīre drunk.)
bavarians like me are in a certain way humorous. not everybody can
understand it...... iīm a bit desperate now. i think brits will win the "competition". and donīt take my posts too serious either! |
Posted By: Jamie
Date Posted: 12 Feb 05 at 4:25pm
| Warnemunde was much warmer than here when I went last summer. apart from that hay when the heowge squall ripped up the race course. That was cold, other than that, warm. |
Posted By: Spot192
Date Posted: 12 Feb 05 at 4:35pm
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whatīs a "heowge squall"? but itīs not normal that itīs warm in warnemunde. with what boat have you been there? |
Posted By: Pierre
Date Posted: 12 Feb 05 at 5:22pm
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Jamie means HUGE (but he's from Wales), and he sails a Flying Dutchman Check out his avatar |
Posted By: Spot192
Date Posted: 12 Feb 05 at 6:52pm
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thanks for your help. iīm a blonde. (itīs a good excuse to me, but to
be true iīve seen the avatar just after posting the message. stupid
question, but it was already posted !) why are you answering for him? |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 12 Feb 05 at 8:20pm
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Because Pierre is a helpful kind of guy. Blokes with a French name usually are, especially if you're a blonde!
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Posted By: bigwavedave
Date Posted: 13 Feb 05 at 10:31am
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I sense a bit of cultural bias there Isabelle! -------------
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Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 13 Feb 05 at 10:34am
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Hey, Dave, you can take the girl out of France, but you can't take France out the girl
Wait 'til Mark starts with Scotland! ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC
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Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 13 Feb 05 at 2:57pm
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do you guys all know each other? ------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 13 Feb 05 at 3:34pm
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Naaah I don't know all of them, but drop us a line next time you're around Lancing SC, you'll be welcome, sailorgirl (and hurri too, of course ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC
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)Posted By: bigwavedave
Date Posted: 13 Feb 05 at 6:24pm
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I've met with Mark (contender443) and Isabelle (black no sugar) just the once, very nice people, very nice club. -------------
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Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 13 Feb 05 at 9:40pm
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And we'll see you again soon, I hope... ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC
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THANK YOU DAVE 
Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 14 Feb 05 at 7:34pm
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stop flirting ans sucking up dave!!!!! ------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: bigwavedave
Date Posted: 14 Feb 05 at 8:28pm
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I can't help it. It just comes naturally to me. And no I'm not flirting, Mark is much bigger than me. -------------
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Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 14 Feb 05 at 8:38pm
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lol! just trying to wind u up! ------------- Sailor Girl, Queen Of The Forum! |
Posted By: Rob.e
Date Posted: 14 Feb 05 at 9:42pm
Back to Germany, do you guys ever see the wind? Whenever I've been near one of your lakes, it's been like a mirror! 
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Posted By: Spot192
Date Posted: 15 Feb 05 at 4:19pm
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sometimes even we can see wind. nobody will believe it now but itīs
true! but it only lasts for about three days or maximum 5 days. the
rest of the time you can check your outfit in the water. one example: last year we had one week between 20-25 knots and the class wich had a regatta in our club said to the comitee that they wonīt start when the wind goes over 18 knots. germans are great experienced in windy conditions! |
Posted By: Wave Rider
Date Posted: 15 Feb 05 at 5:03pm
Blimey these last couple of weeks have all been about 25knots at my club.....................Very good ------------- -[Franko]- Chew Valley Lake Sailing Club RS600 933 |
Posted By: Spot192
Date Posted: 15 Feb 05 at 5:17pm
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youīre kidding!!! yesterday i had about 5 knots and today 15!!! and there is this bloody nature saving law that says we arenīt allowed to go sailing before easter.  hate bavaria! i think iīll move to britain! |
Posted By: Rob.e
Date Posted: 26 Feb 05 at 9:17pm
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Come to Hayling, plenty of 14's in the harbour, and not enough wimmin (thats women in English) in the fleet. We don't have a nature saving law, it's just nature won't let you sail much before Easter (Too damn cold!) Plenty of wind here though! My German windsurfing buddies used to drive miles (Kilometers?) to find wind: I met them in Tarifa, Switzerland(No, really!) North sea...some even came to England! |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 27 Feb 05 at 12:28am
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Hayling? As in Hayling Island? Your German buddies probably had problems to understand why they were sent half-way through the Channel when sailing an Open meeting. Some competitors in the Contender Nationals last year were towed back to civilisation, otherwise they'd still be struggling now! (naming no names Great clubhouse and great people though - shame sailing widows cant get a glimpse of the action! ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC
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Posted By: Spot192
Date Posted: 27 Feb 05 at 8:26pm
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thanks for translating the women thing! iīve seen on the europeans how less women are in the class! but the men werenīt bad... iīd love to go to hayling! ve seen pictures of the clubhouse and heard storys......and the 14 there would be great! i drove miles and miles to find wind. only lake garda on easter was best. but really really really cold. 4 years ago it started snowing there. so howīs the weather in hayling? |