Is sailing too hard now?

[Colin_S]

Out racing today as crew on a 34 footer we had spinnaker gybes, spinnaker peels, hoisting crew up the mast to free a jammed spinnaker halyard whilst under full sail, countless tacks up the river through the middle of 2 club races, threats of headsail peels and almost continuous sail trims. Boy I'm knackered!

 

[Joe_Cole]

Did you win though?

 

[Malcb]

Gets the adrenalin going though doesn't it?

 

[Colin_S]

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Did you win though?

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Well there's another story - we rounded one of the marks (a nav bouy in the Thames Estuary) and noticed IIRC it was No. 9, we should have gone round No. 11. This probably added a good 10 mins to our time costing us second place. It would have cost us third place too but the yacht behind followed us round it too. Guess there's a moral there somewhere!?

 

[graham]

I remember a few years back taking part in an evening race when another club decided to use the same red can buoy as a mark.Sods law had both fleets trying to round it from opposite directions at the same time. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Colin_S]

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Gets the adrenalin going though doesn't it?

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It's a bit like drinking and hangovers. Next day it's never again and next weekend you can't wait to get out and do it all over.

 

[bilbobaggins]

....Like the Cowes Combined Clubs setting a course at the start of Cowes Week, a few years back, where the windward mark for the 'big boys' classes turned out to be missing - and had been for 3 years!!

I gather a certain 84-year old 'prominent participant' had a few carefully-selected words to say to the organisers, and was restrained by his similarly-prominent daughter.