bilbobaggins
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Is no-one going to suggest mooring swiftly to the Warden SHM, dropping a mackerel line over the stern, and going below to put the kettle on?
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Really practical ColRegs problem
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fireball
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We would - but you're already tied up to that one ... so we couldn't ... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
flaming
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I'll be going the other way.
peterb
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I said that - but in a different way /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
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Agreed. I never use the Needles Channel nowadays.
But my post showed that you would be going against the stream, giving even more reason for avoiding it.
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Agreed. I never use the Needles Channel nowadays.
But my post showed that you would be going against the stream, giving even more reason for avoiding it.
l'escargot
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I would have thought the wind is more likely to have west in it than east so you would be more likely to have the kite up.
Twister_Ken
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Ooh I hope not. Downtide, downwind starts to a RTI really do sort the men from the castrati.
l'escargot
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off the top of your head - how many times have you had that in the 25 you've done?
Twister_Ken
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5 or 6. Never in a real stonking wind, though.
The start line gets quite bowed in the middle, but they chicken out of signalling a general recall!
The start line gets quite bowed in the middle, but they chicken out of signalling a general recall!
bilbobaggins
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the wind is more likely
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Now that sounds like a meteorologist...... FWIW, I'm not in the habit of flying a kite according to the Hadley Centre's statistical predictions. I know a little bit about those and, again FWIW, I make it my practice to look out of the window when I want to know what the wind's doing in among my sails.....
Oh, and I HAVE seen boats flying kites on reciprocal courses, quite often, in the Solent. But I've always put that down to what someone else was smoking.....
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the wind is more likely
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Now that sounds like a meteorologist...... FWIW, I'm not in the habit of flying a kite according to the Hadley Centre's statistical predictions. I know a little bit about those and, again FWIW, I make it my practice to look out of the window when I want to know what the wind's doing in among my sails.....
Oh, and I HAVE seen boats flying kites on reciprocal courses, quite often, in the Solent. But I've always put that down to what someone else was smoking.....
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l'escargot
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....Oh, and I HAVE seen boats flying kites on reciprocal courses, quite often, in the Solent. But I've always put that down to what someone else was smoking.....
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Regular occurance on a summers afternoon - usually on a lunchtime tide about mid afternoon on the North Island side half way between Beaulieu and Lymington, as the sea breeze kicks in, if you ever want to demonstrate it to someone. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
....Oh, and I HAVE seen boats flying kites on reciprocal courses, quite often, in the Solent. But I've always put that down to what someone else was smoking.....
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Regular occurance on a summers afternoon - usually on a lunchtime tide about mid afternoon on the North Island side half way between Beaulieu and Lymington, as the sea breeze kicks in, if you ever want to demonstrate it to someone. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
TheBoatman
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Reverse course but only have the boat going very slowly - then invoke the over-taking vessel has to stay clear rule.
Peter.
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You can also watch the mayhem as all these spinnaker carrying boats try to change direction to avoid you.
Peter.
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You can also watch the mayhem as all these spinnaker carrying boats try to change direction to avoid you.
Twister_Ken
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>You can also watch the mayhem as all these spinnaker carrying boats try to change direction to avoid you.<
Being racers, if they have to avoid you, they'll do it with only inches to spare. DO NOT PANIC!
Being racers, if they have to avoid you, they'll do it with only inches to spare. DO NOT PANIC!
bilbobaggins
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You've reminded me, musing, of an occurrence in 1975 when I was 'exploring the envelope' under hugely-skilled supervision on a Nicholson 55 somewhere in the Channel, tramping along back from the Wolf Rock. We'd been exploring the 'feel' around the point of rudder stall, and how to recover the situation. The boat had, as predicted, just done a BIG broach and the Racing Skipper/Examiner opined "It's usually better, when that (big spinnaker) is set, simply to follow it where it wants to take you. Don't try to push it where you want to go.....
Unless you're racing, of course. Then it's different....."
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Unless you're racing, of course. Then it's different....."
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Twister_Ken
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Steer to keep the boat under the spinny.
fireball
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or in Dinghy terms - Steer to keep the sails dry .... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
bilbobaggins
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Steer to keep the boat under the spinny.
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".....As opposed to the spinni under the boat!"
That's the most sensible thing you've posted in quite a long time....
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Steer to keep the boat under the spinny.
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".....As opposed to the spinni under the boat!"
That's the most sensible thing you've posted in quite a long time....
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Twister_Ken
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Here's another.
Do something about your IHT situation.
Do something about your IHT situation.
bedouin
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Here's another.
Do something about your IHT situation.
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i.e. SPEND IT NOW /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Here's another.
Do something about your IHT situation.
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i.e. SPEND IT NOW /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
bilbobaggins
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Do something about your IHT situation.
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"Do not panic, Mister Mainwaring...!"
As a 'qualified and experienced professional' in that field, sorry again, Ken. I don't have an IHT problem.
However, my heirs and successors might do......
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Do something about your IHT situation.
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"Do not panic, Mister Mainwaring...!"
As a 'qualified and experienced professional' in that field, sorry again, Ken. I don't have an IHT problem.
However, my heirs and successors might do......
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