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lazy mavis
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Topic: It’s arrived - finally - the perfect boat Posted: 09 Jul 08 at 1:45pm |
nice way to treat a brand new boat muppet Edited by lazy mavis |
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radixon
Really should get out more Joined: 27 Oct 06 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2407 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 09 Jul 08 at 1:57pm |
No getting out now, Its stuck here!! |
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dontdocalm!
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 09 Jul 08 at 4:33pm |
At that angle, a "Bungee-assisted straight-from-the-trolley Catapult Launch System" would solve your shore dump problems nicely!
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marke
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 09 Jul 08 at 7:50pm |
I bet the guys at Alto are just thrilled with the welcoming and tolerant attitude of their first owner. They are truly privileged to have such an ambassador for their class.
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 10 Jul 08 at 9:16am |
Hmm, unusual to find one so astute in this place, but you are quite correct, I have been surprisingly tolerant given I've only been waiting a year for it. However this wind? It's my gift to the windsurfing fraternity.. Every day since I've taken delivery now... Is it ever going to end? It's all very well going out in strong wind in something you're familiar with, but tonight's looking like it's going to be hairy again. Edited by G.R.F |
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Sunseeker
Newbie Joined: 28 Aug 07 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 19 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 10 Jul 08 at 1:00pm |
You constantly harp on about the wind and shore dump at Hythe. Mmm looks terrifying! I get it know, all style no substance! |
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Black no sugar
Really should get out more Joined: 04 Dec 04 Location: Somewhere between Brighton and Lancing Online Status: Offline Posts: 3941 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 10 Jul 08 at 3:44pm |
That's probably what Grumpf means and launching the rescue boat:
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Sunseeker
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 10 Jul 08 at 4:18pm |
I agree that, on occasions, the elements can conspire to make sailing difficult almost anywhere. But I rather think that your posts were taken on a very different day to GRF's. My point is that all he ever seems to do is complain about one thing after another. It was either too windy or not windy enough, the course was wrong, the boat is too tippy, the water was too wet. For heavens sake just get out and sail the damn thing, learn when to sail hard and when to take the foot of the gas. We all have the same variety of conditions to cope with and most sailors seem to do it admirably. |
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Villan
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 10 Jul 08 at 4:47pm |
I think one of the side effects of the Hetracil the Grumpf is still taking (after all these years too .. ) is an increased need to moan about everything, and a tendancy to exagerate. |
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 10 Jul 08 at 10:53pm |
So tonight we got out.
My first comment, whoever owns and runs the company Superspars should be taken to sea, a large coil of heavy chain attached to his feet and dropped over the side without a vest. The damn boom kept falling off, the first clue, using a round peg in a square hole? Hello? Basic engineering 101 ? We finished last. Our first wet episode, involved the rear sheet floating out from beyond the boat, getting tangle round the rudder then ripping the tiller out of my hand and over we went at the one minute. By the time we got under way, the other four boats that had ventured out, it was still quite windy, a lot for that big sail, were half way up the beat. The boom incident seemed to occur every time we tacked, they have a centrally positioned GNAV which keeps gettng knocked out of its goose neck. At first i put it down to the fact we perhaps didn't have enough kicker on, which we didn't given the overpowered rig. This is a proto boat and some decent Selden stuff will eventually grace the production model, but hey why build crap like this anyway in this day and age, the mind does boggle. As we settled in, by about the 2nd lap we began to get over all the niggles, ropes in the wrong place, too much rope, rope trailing out the back through the flap things, then impossible to retrieve without stopping, next time fix the end to something in the boat. It's still a superb feel, even in the face of the big bumps that left us hovering in mid air every now and then, gybing was an absolute breeze by comparison with what we're used to, but something weired goes on tacking which could be the instant on effect of the self tacking jib. It was just annoying having to stop every now and then to re-attach the Gnav to its gooseneck, whatver another mod is clearly needed before next time. We sailed the whole race with our spinnaker sheet flailing in the breeze from the mast head, having either forgotten to attach it or it had come undone, either way we didn't get to fly the chute more's the pity, but then we had enough else going on. By the last lap, the wind had eased a tad to about 16-17kts and we were able to apply a bit of power and sit back and watch her fly upwind. We'd measured the main against some other sails earlier as we deliberated about maybe taking her out for the first time with something a bit smaller It's a big sail, it absolutely dwarfs the RS sail and is maybe a square metre bigger than a B14 main. A lot to handle in the breeze we had tonight, but we managed, had we got off the start could we have won? I doubt it, Dumb & Dumberer absolutely flew round tonight in their new V3000, that is one light flyer, even with a combined crew age of about 38, a total mental age of 11 and collective I.Q of 57 it didn't stop them from creaming all of us and now we have to talk to them. And it's all down to the man from Superspars. But at least we are a bit more ready for the regatta this weekend, we'll see what that brings.. |
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