Getting really scared now ....

Just sew a clear plastic window in that ruddy great genny.... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Put a red patch on the port side of the boom, and a green one on the starboard. Glance at it briefly when under attack, and decide if you are going to to call......SSSSTTARRRBOOOAAARRRDDDDDD!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
That sounds like heaps of fun - why didn't we enter? /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

On second thoughts - nah, I'll be having foreign moules and even foreigner frites. And something suitable to wash them down.
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Have a good week/WE everyone.
 
Don't forget to keep shouting ''we're RACING'' .

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Bernie.....Not sure if you were crewing last year when Jim gave this shout in the the Roach.....but it is embedded in my memory of a great day
also the gentle call to a yacht with boom which may have "touched"
Roll on Saturday....though we dont have a count down timer this time
 
ohmigawd - I was relying on you to know what you are doing - I'm just coming for a jolly /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

With wind forecasts of 4knots someone will standing by on the anchor when the tide changes - I don't know how to do that either /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
Racing - phah you ARE all barking mad! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Why spoil a perfectly relaxing sail with all that timing nonsense, shouting at others, trying to get sails up / down the quickest etc. Always seems so undignified to me /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

My elder brother and I used to race fireflys in our youth. On one particularly foggy day in the river at Shoreham the Race Box could still hear us bellowing at each other as we rounded the gybe mark at the furthest point of the course!! We won of course!

Hope everyone has a good time.
 
At the mo it looks like I will be coming round on Sunday for a looksee. If there are crewing slots available for the Monday race (I can make tea) then that would be grand. Or, if there is enough wind to actually get Pipedream moving at a reasonable pace, then joining in the Monday race is a possibility. Whichever, Bernie has asked me to cause as much chaos as possible to the other racers ....................... or wasn't I supposed to say that ? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

By the way, is it a silly question to ask about berthing possibilities this late in the day ???
 
I have a local spy who tells me very few Rice & Coles moorings have been booked so it looks like they will have space for you. But might be a good idea to give them a ring.

A propos your racing tactics - just stay outta my way! Some might say that would be a sensible precaution whether I'm racing or not.

Oh, and be a gentleman and move over when I lap you!

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If last year was any comparison keep to the shallow bits for least tide and carry a kedge. I gave up on the first day after an hour drifting backwards past the roach. When we ran out of porkpies and crisps the crew threatened to mutiny and it was all over. I'm more concerned about what happening weatherwise on Monday and whether I will be able to get back to the blackwater on tuesday. Any thoughts?
 
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I was crewing for Jim all week last year. Obviously very insignificantly.

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Ohhhhh S$$&%*

Our skipper is scared, now I am really worried perhaps i should take up base jumping or something less nerve racking.

Or an alternative is lets go to the pub before the race then we wont be worried no matter what happens


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Just keep repeating
"this is fun, this is fun" and eventually you will believe it.
BTW have you read the small print of the Sailing Instructions?
There is nothing onerous there but little things you can easily overlook.
For example:~
You have to have ,flares, bucket & lanyard, heaving line, lifejackets etc.
Courses are displayed at certain points ashore, not necessarily on the committee boat.
Minor rule infringements cannot be exonerated by penalty turns, only % added to time.

I have a spare class 6 pennant in case the chandlery runs out.

Good luck, see you on the river.
Dan
Traigh
 
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Just keep repeating
"this is fun, this is fun" and eventually you will believe it.

Traigh

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Dan,

Here we go again. Last year I remember we had some really close din dongs going up the Crouch when I had 'robyn of rochford'. This year I am 5 foot smaller so you will probably be well ahead of me. See you on the water tomorrow!!!

I think that class 6 is pretty much the only fleet that has been getting bigger each year.
 
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