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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2021 15:42:20 GMT
I went to take a look at my boat today, its covered in crap and leaves and needs to be woken from its long slumber. I have an old sail I'm hoping to have altered so that it has a pocket for a float at the peak to hopefully prevent a inversion amongst other things. I'll have to test-rig it before too long - if I remember how. In the meantime here's a view of the Medway today - a flat calm at low tide. Not a good day for sailing. Its not called the Mudway for nothing!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2021 20:22:44 GMT
Maybe we can go to Ramsgate and visit the Mr Stabby woman. And I was like "With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled." (Coleridge).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2021 21:59:00 GMT
Apologies if I've missed them already, but would you mind posting a few pics of the vessel?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2021 23:45:11 GMT
Apologies if I've missed them already, but would you mind posting a few pics of the vessel? Absolutely I will but not before I've spliced the mainbrace. Clean pair of heels and all that. Pip-pip.
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Post by Jim on Mar 9, 2021 8:13:16 GMT
Maybe we can go to Ramsgate and visit the Mr Stabby woman. And I was like "With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled." (Coleridge). Take a bike pump with you.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2021 9:55:43 GMT
Maybe we can go to Ramsgate and visit the Mr Stabby woman. And I was like "With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled." (Coleridge). It may be worth mentioning that in the lower part of Cockham Wood Reach there is a mud flat over against the village of Hoo. It begins to run out from the shore near a curious sort of patch of red brick wall, which is, as a matter of fact, the remains of a fort built in Queen Elizabeth's time, and once proudly mounting twenty-three guns, for the benefit of the adventurous Dutchmen, who were much too fond of expeditions up the Medway, which they enlivened by cannonading Sheerness, burning the fleet at Chatham, and other desperate behaviour. De Ruyter, for instance, came up in 1667, and burnt a fleet at Gillingham, and also went on to Upnor, where, perhaps, Upnor Castle may have stopped him, but for details the reader may consult Mr. Pepys' diary. (extract from Swin, Swale & Swatchway by H. Lewis Jones)
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Post by JohnV on Mar 10, 2021 11:10:18 GMT
Maybe we can go to Ramsgate and visit the Mr Stabby woman. And I was like "With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled." (Coleridge). (extract from Swin, Swale & Swatchway by H. Lewis Jones) that one is missing from my library .... the nearest I have to it is Maurice Griffiths "Swatchways and Little Ships"
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2021 17:11:29 GMT
Today's main event was to go to a sail loft in Faversham where various defects with my older and reefable mainsail were pointed out. So its going to be more than I had envisaged...gulp. And the lead time is 5 weeks. Well, it is that time of year, should have started earlier. So that's how long I have to get my shit together. I had an email from the club that is mad enough to let me be a member telling me the club is wholly open apart from changing rooms and showers by 31st March.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2021 18:05:54 GMT
This means I might get to do my first bit of salt water sailing before I'm 47 at the end of April.
Which is a Good Thing.
Despite having salty seadog sailor ancestors on both sides of the family I have never sailed other than about ten minutes on the non tidal Thames in a dinghy.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2021 18:08:04 GMT
Capsize drill first - enjoy the cold!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2021 18:09:21 GMT
That's against my religion.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2021 18:17:02 GMT
Capsize drill first - enjoy the cold! It depends how well dressed we both are. I have a HPX drysuit that might fit Andrew but no wetsuit boots in his Cro-Magnon size. So it may have to wait till a hot day in June and instead issue the command to 'not screw around'.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2021 18:23:30 GMT
Despite capsizing many times, the only time I got a full immersion was during the drill - after that I somehow managed to climb onto the boat and only got me legs wet. I learnt fast...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2021 18:35:44 GMT
Depends on the class of boat. There's a keen chap with a Musto Skiff who seems to have trained as a trapeze artist at some point. But if the Wayfarer goes I can't see how at least some swimming will be avoided. I also have a non-standard sail which is quite a bit smaller than the official item. I always meant to try it when the wind is really blowing but it may have more use as a training sail.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2021 18:40:14 GMT
Depends on the class of boat. There's a keen chap with a Musto Skiff who seems to have trained as a trapeze artist at some point. But if the Wayfarer goes I can't see how at least some swimming will be avoided. I also have a non-standard sail which is quite a bit smaller than the official item. I always meant to try it when the wind is really blowing but it may have more use as a training sail. In a Wafarer, others did the swimming, I staid onboard!
Edit to add - why the smaller sail - we just used to reef the sail.
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