Whats everyone up to this weekend??

[dieselhead]

So then everyone its a bank holiday weekend anyone going to aldreney cherbourg etc?

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[david42]

I've given up planning trips on the boat this summer.

So I'm going down to the boat to sort out my roller reefing line (if I have it long enough to unroll the whole genoa it's too fat to fit on the drum so I can't roll it all away -what was that TK was saying about hanked on headsails in YM?), I'm also going to service my bilge pumps and oil my tiller.

That way the weather gods will think I've given up on actually trying to get out of the marina and so they might just provide some decent sailing weather. (Hopefully they won't notice when I sneak onboard with the Shell Channel Pilot and a load of grub.)

David

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[Talulah]

As a solution to your roller reefeing line not fitting on the drum you may like to consider something similar to ours. The centre core of the rope has been removed for some of the length. i.e. the length that fits on the drum. This is standard practice on some roller furlers so it may be you just need to do something about your reefing line. The line then rolls up flat on the drum.

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[DJE]

Going to LeHarve by ferry to collect the boat we abandoned there on Tuesday. Too much wind earlier in the week to get her home to Portsmouth. Looks like too little, and in the wrong direction, this weekend. Oh well at least the diesel tank is full. Anybody want to crew?

<hr width=100% size=1>Better to keep one's mouth shut and be considered a fool than open it and remove all possible doubt.

 

[StugeronSteve]

Down to the boat and plan on arrival, probably just knock around in the Solent or maybe Poole / Studland. Who knows?

<hr width=100% size=1>Think I'll draw some little rabbits on my head, from a distance they might be mistaken for hairs.

 

[david42]

Thanks, that makes more sense than changing down to thinner and thinner lines until I end up with a spool of thread instead of a reefing drum.

David

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[tyce]

working!!! so any one complaining about weather spare a thought

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[BigLes]

Bobbing around the Solent - probably taking in Lymington & Gosport - and then back to Chichester.

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[wishbone]

Moving!!! sold the big house moving to rented house investing lump sum doing up me flats, building me town house.......BUT !! best of all got loadsa money for a boat, n......i........c.....e.!!

<hr width=100% size=1>Wishbone
Rolling, rolling, rolling keep them doggies moving!
Where’s me chuck wagon gone?

 

[ruthhobson]

Troon- Bank Holiday Monday is our first day out with Steve at Second Wind Sailing. So you have all been warned!!

BTW If you see Chewsy doing any "strange manoeuvres" in the next week it might not be my fault ...... we're taking my Dad with us.......and............. the Sister-in-Law so they can do their Comp Crew. Am I mad?? No need to answer!

Ruth

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[robp]

Les. Seen your boat on the pontoon, (won't mention which). We are one pontoon "up". Hoping we'll be out too, everyone willing! Have a good weekend.

Rob

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[cliff]

Thanks for the warning - will give Chewsy a wide berth although I can't say the seacat will do the same.

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[ruthhobson]

It might do!

You've never met the S-i-L !!

Ruth
(Only kidding ........ I think)

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[USM]

Have a 50 mile regatta at Garda Lake in Italy.

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