For them that like triple boats……

[Wansworth]

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Good innit I watched that earlier. The ultims are pretty spectacular. Presumably, like other top level racing tech, this will filter down to us mere mortals eventually.

 

[Wansworth]

Good innit I watched that earlier. The ultims are pretty spectacular. Presumably, like other top level racing tech, this will filter down to us mere mortals eventually.

Surely you x boat is more fun …….just out of interest do you ship aboard a hamper ?

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Surely you x boat is more fun …….just out of interest do you ship aboard a hamper ?

My own boat is built by Hampers It’s one of the ‘naughty nineties’, an anomaly that had to be grandfathered in, as she’s too big. The first pair Hampers yard built, a mistake. We normally race a Burns built boat. No extras of any non compulsory kind are carried, I’m afraid it's deadly serious. As the great Dennis Connor once said, racing sailboats isn’t a matter of life or death, it’s much more serious than that.

Triple boat wise, dunno if you’ve sailed an X? Our PRO at the club was astonished when we bought the tri. Mrs C did sail the X with me, but after having her wrist rebuilt, then both her hips done, plus part of a foot, felt the X was a bit too physical. My demands on her as crew were not realistic. The tri is kind of sublime in comparison, she’s smooth, has an easy motion, and copes amazingly with the usual wind over tide off Yarmouth. The X is like sailing in a washing machine on the heavy soil cycle. I race with another boat these days, and a local doctor sails our boat. With a hefty guy, not his wife.

 

[Wansworth]

No my mention of a hamper was related to my only serious racing in a Dragon .The owner need a third hand and asked me .To mysuprise there was a hamper of excellent cucumber sandwiches among other foods .The owner and his mate could handle the boat without meso I dedicated myself to eating the hamper .Idid sail an X boat in the early 1970s it was owned by a Mexican and he bought the boat in Bosham after Ithad been converted to cruising with a low cabin top.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

No my mention of a hamper was related to my only serious racing in a Dragon .The owner need a third hand and asked me .To mysuprise there was a hamper of excellent cucumber sandwiches among other foods .The owner and his mate could handle the boat without meso I dedicated myself to eating the hamper .Idid sail an X boat in the early 1970s it was owned by a Mexican and he bought the boat in Bosham after Ithad been converted to cruising with a low cabin top.

I think that boat is X76, Myrtle. Part of the Yarmouth fleet, converted back to class.