Sailing - dinghies, yachts, inshore, coastal, ocean?! :-)
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Jul 2023
7:30pm, 5 Jul 2023
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Angus Clydesdale
We’ve got a couple of Fevas at the club. We bought them to introduce cadets to 2-handed sailing, but they soon grew out of them.
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Jul 2023
8:53pm, 5 Jul 2023
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SailorSteve
Loving the sailing chat😁 Wayfarer is a wonderful and versatile design. Happy holidays with Falcon, then Sovereign and eventually sunsail in the days when it was permissible to day sail in one direction, drag boats up onto a Turkish or Greek beach, build a bbq and spend the night there; return to base the next day. It was so deserted 30 years ago. We decided that she was a bit too heavy for us and after our apprenticeship with Miracle dinghies we ended up with a Laser 2000 - when it was launched as a new design. Trailed her from Whitby to Salcombe and many spots in between. Often sailed 4-adults-up; 3up would be comfy. Great daysailer and superfun when the centreboard is screaming on the plane! Pretty much all of my sailing now tends to be on bigger stuff now, including commercial, but I relish the chance to get back in any dinghy. Here’s us 30+ years ago in a Miracle, Llangdegfedd Reservoir😁 |
Jul 2023
9:55pm, 5 Jul 2023
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HappyG(rrr)
Laser 2000s were what we sailed at uni. And Laser IIs in USA. Brilliant boats. Hmm, I need to think carefully. For now, just loving being out again in the water. Was a 4 gusting 5 or 6 on Monday. Downwind was fun!  G
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Jul 2023
9:56pm, 5 Jul 2023
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HappyG(rrr)
On. But I'll be in next week. Capsize and righting practice time! G
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Jul 2023
10:09pm, 5 Jul 2023
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LazyDaisy
When our boys were young we had a 'fleet' - an Oppie for the younger boy, a Mirror for OH and the older one (and me occasionally) then as the boys grew, a Topper and a very beaten up kayak. OH had sailed as a youngster - his Dad had a Freshman which was a built by a chap in Dorset I think - but I'd never sailed. I did my RYA Level 3 course, mainly on an old GP14. For the 'recovering from a capsize' exercise the woman I was paired with and I found the high daggerboard made it impossible for us to haul ourselves up (always had poor upper body strength) so we were swapped onto a Comet Zero which was such a joy to sail after the heavy old GP14. Then the boys grew up and got into playing in a band and such like, and our sailing days were over.
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Jul 2023
7:51am, 6 Jul 2023
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♪♫ Synge ♪♫
We had a Mirror for a while when the children were small. A young couple in an old roadster had broken down on the rural road leading past the house we lived in in Kent and we offered to let them use our phone to call the AA. (Remember those days?!) We got chatting and the lad said that his Dad had a Mirror with a hole in that he never used in the garage. I can’t quite remember how we got to the transaction, but a few weeks later I paid his Dad £25 to buy it. Took it home, repaired it, varnish and paint applied and we sailed it at Chipstead SC and later at Chew until the children outgrew it. It’s still on the water 25 years later as friends of ours bought it from us and sail it when on beach holidays in Cornwall. |
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Jul 2023
9:09am, 6 Jul 2023
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HappyG(rrr)
Think a Mirror was first boat I went in. My dad had one before the Fireball. I learned at Emsworth for a week aged 9 or 10? Full week, immersive - 3 days on Wayfarers, then 3 days in Optimists. The graduation sail was from Emsworth out to Hayling Island. Wow, that was fun - half a dozen kids in Opis, looked like a load of ducklings out on their first paddle. Can't remember if there was a Mama or Papa Wayfarer with us. Probably! G
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Jul 2023
10:08am, 6 Jul 2023
50,255 posts
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♪♫ Synge ♪♫
Our girls started out in club Oppies. They were “Optibats” not Optimists and were GRP rather than wood. Just about uncapsizable/unsinkable.
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Jul 2023
10:35am, 6 Jul 2023
105,970 posts
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Hanneke
This all sounds so much fun! I feel I missed out: I have sailed only twice, as a student, being taken by a boyfriend. Loved it! |
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Jul 2023
12:22pm, 7 Jul 2023
47,194 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Popping along to Bardowie Loch near Glasgow to have a look at a few types of boat with a view to buying. Haven't decided which yet, but I'm reliably informed that a Wanderer is modernish equivalent of a Wayfarer, bit lighter. And that in the popular modern RS brand, the Quest is big enough. I'll see what they look like. clydecruisingclub.org Taking my wetsuit in case I'm allowed to go out! G
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