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I removed part of it a couple of W/E's ago at 0520 at low water slack ... Why don't whoever us responsible for the frigging rocks between the Brittania Bridge and the Menai Bridge blow the whole lot of intrusions into godvilion so that us sailors can jjust smooze through with the tide???????????
 
most of us sailors look at the charts and work out the tidal heights! Then rock hopping can be a barrel of laughs (especially when you remember that the charts are certainly not that accurate!
 
Hahaha! Lets look forward to next weekend and the Annual Round Anglesey Race, Probably the most difficult race of its size in the UK. If anyone fancies crewing we got a couple of spaces, ace day out!

All the harder when you have a keel which you cannot touch the bottom with! Memories of a couple of years back when a squall came through just before the IRC1 start and we beat our way through the swellies with full main and light number 1 in gusty 20/25 knots and obligatory welsh monsoon - Never indented to end up going through the not normal arch of Britannia (Anglesey side) but rivals on a X362 were heading that way "Follow them! If they go aground we tack" so keeping close in there wake! However just before that the most amusing part for us was seeing another one of our rivals come to a cracking stop in a Oyster Light wave 395 as there rudder struck the top of swelly rock "<Place Obscene word> TACK we screamed! as the depth sounder indicated 30 cm under the keel!!" Ahhh well if the Navy hit (HMS Conwy) it, its almost excusable to hit it in a yacht... The same crew wrote off there J29 on the way to cork after an unexpected sand bank got in his way of his keel and it fell off, but that’s another storey…

The next big problem on the around Anglesey is god damn Caernarfon bar! Hehe that X362 was the next best thing to a remote depth sounder, they had a couple of bumps in the winding channel but we just tacked b4 finding the sand! (IF there floating, we'll be floating!)

The rest of the race was amazing sunshine, hardly any wind but we managed to get to get around and to Puffin Island just as the tide turned against us! Those who know it there, imagine beating into the Straits, on a falling tide, with a keel you cannot go aground with, took 9 hours from Puffin to the finish, midnight to 9am! But we were entertained during the night by lobster pots around the rudder, moorings around the rudder and Pacifist from Liverpool about 3 foot above us! On a raised sand bar, on her side (fin keel) with the whole crew in sleeping bags out on the bank Classic! We missed 2nd Place and the cash prize by 15 seconds! Over 24 hours! But we didn’t touch bottom once!!

Were not in IRC this year as we’ve not done any racing so not bothered revalidating the cert. The only trouble is, were probably going to be the lead boat in PY I just hope IRC class 2 starting before us don’t get too far ahead to act as our remote sounders again through the swellies /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
I was going to win the AAR [or ATIR) on the 23rd July ....

... a notice was posted on the calendar: "No funerals, weddings, births, christenings, anniversaries or other anti-social happenings between May 1st and October 1st. 2005.

Hell happened when 7 of the above (all political or to do with business) happened during the racing season .... I've told 5 of them that I'm elsewhere ie mid Atlantic or stuck in Spitzbergen waiting for a favorable wind ... but I've got 2 that I can't get out of ..... and the 23rd July 2005 was going to be the year that I finally won the RFound Anglesey Race - not line honours as there are nasty cats who cheat by switching their engines on as the so-called winner did last year ...

Never mind. July 2006 beckons.

We'll win next year because we have a proper round the island race boat /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

K & crew (MS, RH, DC)

ps .... We might also do, just for fun, the 3PYR as well /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

pps ....Just missed the Grampian to the north in February this year trying to work out the channel contouring using the depth sounder.
 
Ah well

we all make mistakes from time to time.

But why do you want to deny others the innocent pleasure of dicing with grounding??

Once touched the swelly going through on LW but it's (fortunately) got sufficient kelp on it to act as an adequate lubricant.
 
Never had the Cojones to navigate swellies at LW slack with a 1.7M draught - has anybody else? Have hit the rock doing a bridge to bridge dive on the young flood and yes, it is hard.
Andy
 
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I don't think the occupants of the cottage would be best pleased by that.

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I once landed on a Wayfarer under contrary conditions and was told to have sex in another direction by a person wearing a pump action Winchester which he said had solid slugs ..... So I pushed off the holed boat. Stuffed a rag/or towel in the hole and eventually ended up at The Gazelle .....

Incidently and as a note ....[As a terrorist I managed to get a 'Widowmaker' catapult in a shoe shop in Bangor High Street, found some very serious ammunition well rounded and pebbled on Garth strand and let it all loose on the way at the windows on Gored Goch* after the kind people at Dickies had filled the holes in the Wayfarer for free.]

*Goch = red. Gored Goch is more du than Du !!!!

Part 2: Cant fin'd the Poofwelly post re their planning permission rejection re the enlargement of their Marina: If any person feels agreived by the planning decision and would like to appeal then all they have to do is to send the following info to the planning inspectorate: "The speaking of welsh is not part of the Town & Country Planning Act. Planning issues as defined in the T&CP Act are al that needs be considered." - That's all that needs be said to overturn the decision - Statue is Statute and the Welsh ASSembly can't change England & Wales Statute.

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Been through at neap Low water Slack in ours (10m yacht with a 1.6m high tech Fin, bulb and wing America’s cup style keel) when the boat was brand new, shinny and even still had sleeves on the winches and wrapped up upholstery and protective film over all of the Perspex! this was our first trip out). Never did it again but didn’t hit anything

Also used serious Yanmar power getting through a few times when we arrived there late. I remember the time with 7knots on through the water and 0.4 SOG! Hmmm In fact the only time we’ve ever been aground was by the wreck just after penmon, “Its quicker out of the channel” “BEEP BEEP BEEP, knock her into reverse, slight scraping noise as she stops.. Phew got away with that! Then along comes the pleasure tour fast cats! WASH! Up the wash, BANG, up the wash BANG, up the wash BANG!

Ah well not bad for 10 years, 1 grounding – sh*t best find some wood!
 
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