force eight
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Topic: force eight
Posted By: desteve1
Subject: force eight
Date Posted: 05 Oct 09 at 8:22am
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on saturday it was blowing force eight gusts,
so we decided to take a pico out, we decided that we needed to reef a few mor times ( in the end 5 times) after that the mainsheet got caught so we could depower, a head ache and the drink ------------- laser 81188 (looking for a name) |
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Posted By: dave.blakesley
Date Posted: 05 Oct 09 at 9:31am
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Would you like a sweetie? ------------- |
Posted By: alstorer
Date Posted: 05 Oct 09 at 10:01am
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Sailed a Pico in a force eight on a big lake in France- waves big enough to lose sight of the support rib at times when both in troughs. Had full sail out, had to stop as rudder assembly was going to break.
------------- -_ Al |
Posted By: Villan
Date Posted: 05 Oct 09 at 1:31pm
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Cane I have a sweetie Dave?
For beating you ... 0.001 corrected seconds ..  ------------- Vareo - 149 "Secrets" http://www.TandyUKServers.co.uk" rel="nofollow - TandyUK Servers |
Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 05 Oct 09 at 2:26pm
Painful. ------------- https://www.ease-distribution.com/" rel="nofollow - https://www.ease-distribution.com/ |
Posted By: dave.blakesley
Date Posted: 05 Oct 09 at 8:45pm
Don't remind me... ------------- |
Posted By: zailor
Date Posted: 05 Oct 09 at 9:18pm
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Isnt there a line somewhere where even the proudest sailor has to say no thanks? ------------- |
Posted By: desteve1
Date Posted: 08 Oct 09 at 7:18pm
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the windsurfer could do it ------------- laser 81188 (looking for a name) |
Posted By: desteve1
Date Posted: 19 Oct 09 at 5:51pm
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I then found out he fractured a rib the next week ------------- laser 81188 (looking for a name) |