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Cherub Chat => Calendar Events => Topic started by: Graham Bridle on June 14, 2012, 09:48:23 PM
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Every couple of years this crops up, I'm not getting younger or lighter and so I am up for giving this the big push.
It will take organisation, coordination and people willing to go, so in the spirit of booking early, am I going alone with my lilo and suntan oil ? or are any of you coming with me ?
Lets start with a roll call of who would be up for it ...
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I am, if the kiddles bring an 18 ;)
but ill bring an e5 which is almost as good
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Hmmmm...will talk to the folks...very tempting.
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Yes, definately up for it, been wanting to go for years
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Keen as mustard
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Keen. Will be able to tow something too.
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We were discussing our sailing plans on the way back from Thornbury.
Our immediate choice was whether to take the RS200 to Garda or the Cherub to Pwllheli. We have not booked any ferry tickets.
Longer term one of the sirens drawing us away from the class was the fact that the RS800s would be going to Garda in 2014.
If the Cherubs went next year it would be fantastic. We would definitely be up for it.
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The Breizskiff boys (and girls) would be up for it too, I think
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We should be game. Had our first trip to Italy earlier in the year and said at the time that we'd be very keen to return with boat and bikes! As long as the dates and prices are favourable then we should be a go.
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bikes are a must, me and digby will have to finish the moths in time!!!
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With a bit of luck all this Euro nonsense will be over by then and we will not have to pay German prices.
last time we went mountain biking above Torbole we came face to face with a rather large wolf.
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Have talked to the folks and we are keen...Gill wants to see more of some place called 'Italy' while we are there and I have unfinished business with a lump of ice near Chamonix. For some reason Gill doesn't want a share in my plans...funny really, since this is the view from the bedroom window (below is the bedroom)...women are strange ;)
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Dont book your holidays yet Nigel, we're very much in the "whos up for it" stage; plenty of hurdles to go yet. However I'll count you in !
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Don't worry...no firm plans, just dreams...I'm also feeling a little frustrated as the summer Alpine season starts pretty much about now but the earliest I can get out there will be September, depending on health, and I miss waking up to mornings like that (10mins earlier we couldn't see anything and had called off climbing for the day, in the end we got up to 3,300m and could have peaked but made a cardinal error of not taking the bird in the hand...chased down by weather next day)
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I 'm fairly sure we'd be up for this.
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We may be - but are restricted on dates to the expensive ones (school holidays) which others would wish to avoid.
Can I suggest the investigation looks at options a little further south than Torbole/Riva as winds of 25-30 knts are not uncommon here. Malcesine for example. Suggest everyone brings along a 'B' rig for maximum sailing pleasure.
We are off to Riva Del Garda in 3 weeks (just thought I would drop that in) 8)
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Having just got back from sailing the 18 in Torbole (Sorry andy, beats 200s ;)) it didn't live upto the 25 knots everyday legend, there were a couple of days like that, but others of 14-16 and a few of 18-20, this seems ideal for cherubs, i do not really see the point of going to Garda and then not sailing in the windy part
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At the same event as Maf is discussing above, I was given the impression that the conditions we experienced were not the norm. Apparently the normal thermal pattern had been disturbed by the larger weather system bashing around over Europe. They said, once settled the 25kts afternoon southerly was reliable.
Down at Malchesnie (spelling?) I'm told the regular breeze hits 16-18kts. Which I think is far more cherub appropriate.
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I think that Andy is not alone in requiring the event to be in school holidays.
I suspect that Eddie, Peter, Sam and Alex are all in the same boat.
From my visits to Garda in the past I think that anywhere would be great.
Riva may be a bit windy.
Torbole or Nago may be fantastic.
Any where else would be great. I do agree with Maf regarding going all that way and not sailing in the windy part.
If we are not bothered about being in the windy part we could go to Como or some of the other alpine lakes, but that would not be Garda.
We may not have much choice. All the clubs are very busy with regattas for premier classes.
I suspect that we have little chance unless we start talking to the clubs very soon and are lucky enough to find an open regatta that we can join in with or find another class that is happy for us to tag on with.
I see that the L4000 still seem to get to Riva each year. This year they only had 14 entries so may be a suitable class to tag onto. Unfortunately they were not in school holidays this year.
Would the 18s let us tag onto their event?
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I would love to go, my only one experience there in 2000, gave a week of excellent sailing of winds 15 to 20 knots, one day at 25.
If this is going to happen organization will need to start sooner that later.