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Pete summed it up perfectly!

Special thanks to Col for his hard work all year and the great reports.

Merry Christmas!

 

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Very enjoyable day!

The view from my Bixler

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The view from my Trainstar

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Looks like I missed another interesting day @ the “duck”.

Loaded the car, then the rain bucketed down here, the wind was blowing a gale out on the water. Smallest rig I have is a “B” so like Stuart “I don’t sail in the rain”.

Unloaded the car and 30 minutes later the sun came out, the wind died down, Bugger! (I should know better)

 

Not sure about the “SMOOTH SAILING” Col mentioned about Thursday’s IOM sailing in his post.

Forcast for Thursday

Min 9
Max 18
Shower or two. Windy.
Possible rainfall: 1 to 2 mm
Chance of any rain: 70%
Hobart area
Cloudy. High (70%) chance of showers, most likely in the morning and afternoon. Winds north westerly 20 to 30 km/h increasing to 35 to 50 km/h in the middle of the day then tending westerly 30 to 45 km/h in the early afternoon

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Thanks Kermit, I can’t remember the last time I was called a “young fella”

 

Nice job on the photo’s

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I thought I saw something glowing over on your side of the bay. it must have been your bright red face I could see?

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I took the dog for a walk up to the top of the hill after flying was cancelled and noticed there wasn’t much wind about, so when I got back I decided to take the Mavic out.

It was around 11.30am and the wind died right out, even the river was calm, it started to pick up again around 2.00pm here.

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Well done Kermit!

Not only did you sail well, but also a great photographer!

If you hadn’t sat out of all those races taking these great videos you would have finished well up the list.

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The view from the water.

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But did you fix the mode switch?

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I was there with the oldies down the other end, must say one of the best days we’ve had for awhile.

Kermit was correct (for once), nice steady light breeze, sunshine and also the best high tide that we have had for awhile.

We had a great turnout of scale boats down our end. (no softies)

 

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Yes, all thanks to Mike for his expert advice and being patient with another learner.

and of course Kermit for putting me though the “TOP GUN FLIGHT SCHOOL”?

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Thanks Kermit,

Yes there is a submarine down our end, fitted with special “GREEN” seeking torpedoes.

There is also a WW2 “E” Boat, a police boat, a customs boat and the US Coast Guard, so you better behave!

Yes we did have a couple of scale boats with sails up.

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The view from the water.

 

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Well done Col, But you were lucky If I had removed the wet ballast from inside #02 before the last race I’m sure Phil would’ve held you off.

(Another high quality Joysway hull bites the dust!)

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