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[Chiara’s slave]

I think that’s exactly right; one thing leads to another so that if you’re careless about one item, pretty soon you find you’re setting off with the lazarette full of unnecessary stuff.

People ask us why we have a 3.4m tender. It’s to put the cruising gear in when we race.

 

[zoidberg]

Quite a long time time ago, I sailed a RORC season on a handbuilt all-carbon trimaran. That may have been 'cos I'd done the mandated RORC Training Courses - or perhaps it's 'cos I knew where Ireland was. We got 4 Class Wins and a Second, from five starts. The owner was a 'veggie', so his food cupboard for the Fastnet comprised a cucumber and an apple.... or was it two? One of the guys undertook to provide nosh for the rest of us - "My g/f is a food nutritionist!" - but turned up on the Saturday evening with nowt..... "Domestic dispute. Don't ask!"

That led to we other two scouring all Cowes' little corner shops, early on the Sunday morning, for any leftover curly sandwiches and dried-out pasties.

That meant, when we Finished and put lines ashore at Queen Anne's Battery Marina, we made a bee-line not for the RWYC bar but the cafe round the corner...

 

[The Q]

One small sailing boat, a Lysander, which should weigh around 470Kg, was put on a weighbridge, to check if it was OK for towing...
The owner discovered he had nearly 1/2 a ton of extra weight on board!!! luckily it was the owner weighing, not Plod..

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Quite a long time time ago, I sailed a RORC season on a handbuilt all-carbon trimaran. That may have been 'cos I'd done the mandated RORC Training Courses - or perhaps it's 'cos I knew where Ireland was. We got 4 Class Wins and a Second, from five starts. The owner was a 'veggie', so his food cupboard for the Fastnet comprised a cucumber and an apple.... or was it two? One of the guys undertook to provide nosh for the rest of us - "My g/f is a food nutritionist!" - but turned up on the Saturday evening with nowt..... "Domestic dispute. Don't ask!"

That led to we other two scouring all Cowes' little corner shops, early on the Sunday morning, for any leftover curly sandwiches and dried-out pasties.

That meant, when we Finished and put lines ashore at Queen Anne's Battery Marina, we made a bee-line not for the RWYC bar but the cafe round the corner...

We don’t save weight by starving the crew. But the other crew members are usually fairly slight ladies. Light to start with, and don’t eat so much

 

[westhinder]

Which reminds me, it's probably 35 years since I heard someone congratulate themselves on a good landfall. Just hasn't been an issue since reliable electronic nav. (I don't count Decca as reliable.)

That’s right, we used to be chuffed if our landfall was roughly where we had calculated.
Decca used to go on the blink when you needed it most.