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No but the time will come when you may feel under pressure from lapping boats nearer the marks, and it is not so much a case of contesting anything as like Soggy and Rupert pointed out it is a case of not impeding them by keeping going. If they are not overlapping your stern by at least one bow leng...

I would like to say I would take part, in the yet to be sailed Minisail, unfortunately ambitions to venture further afield are thwarted by difficulties getting respite from Carer duties. Also I have asked for a post Physio assessment as to capability health wise, to resume sailing after well over a ...

There is a complete one on Gumtree for £150 which has 2 sails one of which is a Laser, and doesn't the mast and boom fit too, albeit maybe not legal within the confines of Association rules?

I had a 1984 four cylinder Honda, only it was VF400, and had a V4 water cooled engine and complex enclosed disc brakes that never caught on. Sounded great with Micron exhausts but was 10 years old and a bit scruffy when I bought it off a work colleague in the 90s, but got sprayed the same red as my ...

Novorossiysk - spent some time working at their Naval Training College on a research exchange. It was cold and bleak, but not as cold as Moscow (-21) small world, that was in 1970, and I was very proud to have aquired a CCCP stamp in my seamanship record book and passport, as not too many folk had ...

I remember when at Grimsby Nav' College three of us used to go down to the docks and take out one of the small fleet of GP14, down there used mainly for seamanship training purposes. However we spent our leisure times, such as it was away from studies or the old bull at our Hostel, which was referre...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJbwkRE6-F8
may be of interest for the dewy eyed nostalgia types and there is a Super 10 having a go Sami.
and my first and until recently only' new bike

An Awstin of England 14, or maybe a 12 Astor?.. and a Suffolk Punch to launch the darnd thing???

Was that the reed valve type Jim developed from MZs racers, when their chief designer defected to Japan, and the engine Phil Reed and Agostini rode to great effect after also Ago defected from his beloved MV Augustas. Reed won the 350 Championsip on ? or maybe my Memories fading with the passage of ...

My small collection may not be to everyone's taste but is currently fronted by a Sachs 650 Roadster, customised as a Street tracker. I had a very troublesome V2 version before but the bike itself was sound, comfy and handled superbly, so I found a Suzuki engined version The current one http://farm9....

Sami, interesting, much as I love Wooden boats I didn't have a proper cover for my Pacer, so eventually the elements were affecting the varnish and as there were I think a Streaker, Solo, Tempo, Fireball in the fleet (so much for rationalisation and sensibilities*)at the time something had to go. I ...

I liked the one I had, it was light to launch, had a two piece mast (with internal hallyards)hard wearing sails and was rather like a Mirror with a pointy bow. The only thing I wasn't so keen about was the thin edge to sit on when hyking . An x member who bought Hyde Sails, I was given to believe, r...

and more recently
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8631607.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/desti ... yssey.html
http://www.asylum.com/2010/07/20/don-mc ... r-charity/

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