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With a pretty ordinary weather forecast and cooler conditions, numbers were down a little today. For those who could have come but didn’t, you totally missed an awesome day @ the Duck.
Steady NNW breezes of around 5-8 knots with the occasional gusts made for perfect sailing weather. We even had bursts of sunshine at times and it never really got that cold.
New guy Richie brought along his Mount Gay 30 and had a ball. He quickly got the hang of the pond and even cheekily tested out the fountain’s defences. The fountain takes no prisoners as Richie discovered when his forward progress quickly evaporated. As luck would have it he managed to sail free before the rescue mission was launched. A warning this time.
The brothers Rogers turned up too and though they didn’t bring a boat, it wasn’t long before Gerald and Col’s transmitters were in their hands and then it was ‘game on’ bro’ Vs bro’.
After a couple of starts the boys got the hang of the bigger DF’s and the race finishes began to get close.
Richie’s Mount Gay was the surprise of the day however. This beautifully finished boat had an amazing turn of speed downwind, clearly dominating the 95’s in 5-8 knots of breeze. Upwind it was a slightly different story as the greyhounds hungrily made up for their lost ground. It was a fun day and the right time to give the new lads a taste of the 65’s big brother. I could tell by the grins they both wore it won’t be long before they start challenging the fleet in both classes.
Near the end of our session Pete turned up and joined us for coffee. Great to see he is recovering well. He tells me it won’t be long before Pink Bits is nipping at our heels once more. Watch this space.
No pics today, having too much fun and forgot to snap a few.
Next week the Pocket Rockets are doing battle once more and why would you want to miss that?
Cheers
Col
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Sorry I couldn’t be there today but as explained on the calendar I’m a sick widdle frog out of curiosity on the calendar it said the pond was going to have a south pole weather bridge come through did it ?
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Sounds like a great day (as usual) was had by all. Sorry I couldn’t be there but with IOM sailing tomorrow, flying Thursday, the canal on Saturday & IOM’s again on Sunday, I need to spend some time at home catching up with things. That said I should be there next Tuesday for the DF65’s & perhaps I better bring the Mt Gay along as well, sounds like a bit of match racing in the wind.
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GEEPERS PRED OL COBBER about time you put a real name on the gay liberation boat this is a family site people don’t want to read a story like mount gay was behind the leader but with a spurt bumped his riveral and pushed him aside with a cracked stern limping helpless to the ravages of the multi coloured Mt gays descending on him that’s how some writer could write a story so much nicer to write miss piggy was behind the leader and trotted up to her riveral bumped him and grappled him freed herself and moved on now isn’t that nicer just a thought cobber
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