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Sailing - is it a suitable pastime for grown men and women?

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:48 pm
by Silkie
Saw FullCircle's plea for pics in another place after losing the contents of a hard drive and sent him a few of the spinnaker weekend that he and Morgana spent aboard Silkie a couple of years ago but it set me thinking.

Two men make a thousand mile round trip by car to spend two days in a cockleshell trying to use the wind to cover 36 miles and ending up back at the precise spot from which they started. It might be an extreme example but it's a scenario familiar to us all I'm sure.

I wonder sometimes - I really do.

Does anyone remember the Christmas troll from the Irish contingent that was ignited by this one?

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Re: Sailing - is it a suitable pastime for grown men and women?

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:17 pm
by Silkie
Why the poor safety attitude?

Bingo. 8) I do like the new search facility.

Re: Sailing - is it a suitable pastime for grown men and women?

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:37 pm
by FullCircle
Silkie wrote:Why the poor safety attitude?

Bingo. 8) I do like the new search facility.

I had quite forgotten that thread.

Excellent breach of properly considered safety regulations.


As I explained, I was wearing a fully inflated life jacket under my T Shirt. Ahem.


Thanks for the pics Dave, see you again next year I hope.

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Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:13 pm
by ParaHandy
for feck's sake, BigNick, would you sit down ... ?

Re: Sailing - is it a suitable pastime for grown men and women?

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:33 pm
by Silkie
FullCircle wrote:...see you again next year I hope.
Look forward to it. There hasn't been much need of the spinnaker this past couple of years. I think I need a refresher course.