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Off Topic => Lead Luggers => Topic started by: andy_peters on August 10, 2011, 12:21:12 PM

Title: Fastnet Start
Post by: andy_peters on August 10, 2011, 12:21:12 PM

As a few of us will be down at Lee anyone know anyone with a rib that we could jump on to go out and watch the Fastnet start on Sunday?

Title: Re: Fastnet Start
Post by: phil_kirk on August 10, 2011, 01:17:13 PM

Alternatively drive round to Hurst and watch them sail through the gap and out to the needles.

This is what sarah did last time when I did the race in 2009.

Title: Re: Fastnet Start
Post by: Ben Howett on August 20, 2011, 04:36:44 PM

Did you make it down in the end Andy? Im not sure a rib was required in the end - short tacking up the shore was the name of the game off the startline!

(http://messingaboutinboats.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c05bf53ef014e8aa5b582970d-pi)

Title: Re: Fastnet Start
Post by: phil_kirk on August 21, 2011, 07:07:54 PM

We watched the race starting from the beach at Lee-on-solent.  Not the closest vantage point but we could make out a lot of the larger sails.