the weekend in breif

[fireball]

We battled through high winds and braved big seas to get there ....

oh - and the rain ....

and found ladyinred - or bloke in bed as he should've been after a single handed trip in the same conditions we had.

and here we are ...

Dinner was excellent - I believe there was about 60 of us .....

but come sunday morning it was time to depart ...

Shy_talk & Crew

One Magnacarter - waiting for the rest of the crew to surface .....

and wasn't the weather nice .... to start with ....

it was great to meet up with everyone and put faces to the wierd posts that appear on here...
and final thanks (from me) must go to Etap_Owner, Malcom & Lizzie_b for putting up with me on my first (and second) channel crossing.... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[BrendanS]

You miserable bugger. I was almost happy to have missed it now, for a relatives wedding in Bristol....now...

 

[ColinHuggins]

Breif? Achtung, we haf ways off making you spell . . .

A good run ashore, but didn't get the kite up all weekend.

 

[fireball]

wotever

we did get the cruising chute up.... for 1/2hr ...

 

[Sans Bateau]

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we did get the cruising chute up.... for 1/2hr ...

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Yes I think 1/2 hr is being generous!

That was the biggest input of effort with the poorest return of the weekend!

Long live the VP 2003!

 

[fireball]

It's all good practice! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Sans Bateau]

I'm glad you see it that way, you can come again! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[fireball]

Next time I'll race you .... hopefully!! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Mind u - it'll only be a fair race if you don't get a larger genoa ... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

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One Magnacarter - waiting for the rest of the crew to surface .....


[/ QUOTE ]Hah... thats what you think..... I just needed a damned good fart.....

 

[fireball]

Thought the breeze increased for a bit - unfortunatly we didn't have the main up at that time...

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Yes, I did notice that you didn't sail off your berth..... but at least your skipper wasn't still asleep, unlike Amaya...... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Now have official management approval for attending with Magna Carter next year round from Ipswich, at which point I will claim the trophy for 'farthest travelled' from Dralex /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif..... first crewing slot already agreed with Full Circle.....

 

[Lizzie_B]

Thanks for posting the pix so quickly Andrew.

Thanks Stephen for carrying all that extra weight across and back.

 

[fireball]

I think we did a reasonable job in making room for the extra weight on the way back .... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

MC - we didn't sail off the pontoon because we knew you'd drop your coffee in shock!

 

[jhr]

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I just needed a damned good fart.....

[/ QUOTE ] I wondered what the vibration was. I thought that maybe the stern gland needed tightening up to prevent leakage which, in a way, was true. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif