Finn edge of the wedge!

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Finn edge of the wedge!

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In case any of you need an excuse.

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Suggest that Finn sailors may need their own Login page...but we'd better keep it simple.

Click on all the pictures containing pie...

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Are you a Robot?

Yes ( ) No. ( )

Or do you sail

Mind you a Finn is somewhere on my bucket list. Perhaps I should throw down the challenge to Dougall?
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Re: Finn edge of the wedge!

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I gave up serious Finn sailing in 1979 and then when I bought Django in 2005 I tried not to take it seriously again. But then I sailed in the Nationals at Falmouth in 2012 and remembered what it's like to sail a Finn in big winds and waves - there's nothing like it! So the Laser and the Enterprise were sold, another Finn bought and now I'm really enjoying Finn opens, World Masters events and still sail Django in the CVRDA events.

Sail a Finn while you can, and you never need to pass a pie again.
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Re: Finn edge of the wedge!

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I sailed a Finn once, and loved it....

I was 18 or 19 at the time, and an OK was my regular weapon... When a guy at the club offered me a go in his Finn, I jumped at the chance...

Given I was under 10 stone at the time it could have gone horribly wrong, but the wind gods smiled that day, and I managed to get the thing to plane on a broad reach....

I'm still under 11 stone, and not nearly as fit as I was then, so my Finn days are behind me...
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Re: Finn edge of the wedge!

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I really have no idea why I like the Finn so much. Barely sailed them, as far too small, and more importantly, unfit, but there is something about the way they look, and the way they feel, which the smaller bendy mast boats can only try to imitate. One reason, apart from miserliness, that I sail a Lightning is the nod the boat gives to the Finn.
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Re: Finn edge of the wedge!

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PeterV wrote:Sail a Finn while you can, and you never need to pass a pie again.
:mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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My advise is to chew before you swallow... :?
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Re: Finn edge of the wedge!

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Michael Brigg wrote:
PeterV wrote:Sail a Finn while you can, and you never need to pass a pie again.
:mrgreen: :mrgreen:

My advise is to chew before you swallow... :?
Doctors... always wanting to keep us alive in spite of Darwin.
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Re: Finn edge of the wedge!

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Their are a few problems with Darwin's wish to kill off worst performing/disabled humans, Stephen Hawkins for one.
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Re: Finn edge of the wedge!

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Stephen Hawkins the National 12 sailor?
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Re: Finn edge of the wedge!

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correct :roll:
Professor Stephen Hawking, Hawkins, common mistake :oops:
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Re: Finn edge of the wedge!

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I was more thinking of the Darwin awards concept of stupid people taking themselves out of the gene pool, though, rather than any creepy eugenics programme!
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How many people are going to award themselves stupid ? :?
See above :lol:
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Re: Finn edge of the wedge!

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Well start with the Wingnut award and there are a few self confessed candidates.
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Re: Finn edge of the wedge!

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I think I have qualified for this years first "Wingnut", I have spent approx' 100 hours making my new Rudder blade, others have contributed their labour (painting etc).
The blade is wrong way round.
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Re: Finn edge of the wedge!

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trebor wrote:... I have spent approx' 100 hours making my new Rudder blade, others have contributed their labour (painting etc).
The blade is wrong way round.
Chin up!,...Could be worse,

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Re: Finn edge of the wedge!

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trebor wrote: I have spent approx' 100 hours making my new Rudder blade
I've pretty much built a whole boat in a third of that time!!!
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