Ditch the boat

[cameronke]

Hello All!

I love sail my Laser dingy in the Clyde. I bought my Laser to over come all my inadequacies in life and become a better person. Unfortunately I dont have an engine on my Laser but make up for this imbalance in my life by having electricity and running water at home. I also indulge myself in having an indoor toilet (with running water), a sort of Ying and Yang thing I suppose.

On occasion, due possibly to poor seamanship, I have left the relative comfort of the Laser and entered the cold, tide washed waters of the Clyde. I have found the resulting swim invigorating and character forming and if I reach shore (so far 100% success there) I like to reflect upon my oneness with nature.

Now I feel vastly superior to boat users and would like to form a cult to discourage people from going to sea in watercraft of any sort. I frequently make a twenty minute ferry crossing to get home but now will reject the smelly ferry to coat myself in pig grease and make a bold snorkel home.

Couldn't resist jumping on the band wagon

Regards to all

Cameron

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[tome]

Did you mean...

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[cameronke]

Re: Ditch the kite!

Tis the devils invention, Ditch the kite! Ditch the kite! Ditch the kite! Burn it !

Regards
Cameron

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[MASH]

Re: Ditch the kite!

Its all an illusion!

When I'm driving my aeroplane people say I'm flying. So be happy, stay in your boats and swim, its safer that way...

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[Nich39Nige]

Re: Ditch the kite!

Ditch the plane!

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[jimi]

Re: Ditch the Ditch

Can't do that .. you'd be bogsnorkelling in ditchwater ...

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[kilkerr1]

I demand you stop making me laugh so much, right now. Others in the office are giving me strange looks every time I snort my coffee over my keyboard...at this rate I'll have ruined the hardware and will have to ditch the PC too, and rediscover the ancient art of handwriting.

Sod it.

Ditch the PC!

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[Aja]

Re: Ditch the Mast

Step forward brave Sir!

Noticed you have already done this on the E-boat. Keel next?

Regards

Donald

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[cameronke]

Re: Ditch the Mast

Hi Donald

Has Neil been spreading gossip?

Regards Cameron

PS Got the mast back up last weekend and it was still upright when I left on Monday morn

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[Aja]

Re: Ditch the Mast

Battered round Toward on Friday night en-route to Kip and saw her sitting sans mast.

As we were racing back on Saturday didn't get much chance to look around - and modesty forbids me saying just how well we did!

Went round to Tarbert on Sunday night. Saw Neil's workboat there - East pontoon was open - and Tarbert was very quiet - only one boat rafted outside us.

Not down to boat till Sunday for us this week. Youngest daughter moving out. Yipee!!!!! Maybe I was a bit quick in agreeing to help......

Regards

Donald

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[cameronke]

Re: Ditch the Mast

Hello Donald
Reckon I should come clean on this one.

Dragged the boat out of our boat store two weeks ago and the trailer wheel broke off. So by brute force (Landrover S3) dragged boat (on trailer remains) onto beach and waited to float off. Eventually floated off at 2am and picked up mooring, absolutely knackered from days events.

The plan was to get out first thing next morning and get all rigging properly tensioned but received call from club saying mast had come down of its own accord during the night. Apparently the forestay had loosened within the furling foil, but was very lucky that mast didn't break. Whilst having an adventure to make fast the mast, I had my finger caught in the outboard lifting mechanism.

Surprised you didn't hear my utterances from either Dumbarton or Kames. I had taken a week off to prepare the boat and get some sailing in but was now invalid for the rest of the week. That nasty storm a week past last Wednesday forced my bow roller into my deck (possibly as mast wasn't raised and therefor acting as a damper). Still got everything fixed last weekend and hopefully get the sails up this weekend. So not been a good season so far but will hopefully get better, but as a friend reminded me "things are never that bad that they cant get worse".

So, if you might lay your modesty aside for a moment, JUST how well did you do?

Regards
Cameron

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[Aja]

Re: Ditch the Mast

Crivens. Not been your lucky week. I didn't know about the mast - just thought it funny that you were sitting on your mooring without a mast - have seen boats being lifted in at Ardyne and guessed that masts would have been raised then when a crane was available.

M People. Things - Can Only Get Better..... now I'll be humming that little ditty to myself for the rest of the day....

CCC Opening Muster??? oooooohh 1st in Class......got to admit it was a poor turnout as the IRC boys were being weighed at Kip....

Regards

Donald


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