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Title: Draycote Sat 19th
Post by: Torchy on October 18, 2013, 10:56:54 AM

Loco Perro and Sweet Dreams will be at Draycote Saturday from mid-morning - assuming the epoxy on Ade's spreader repair cures...

Either way 1 or 2 Cherubs will be there - anyone fancy joining us? Wind looks ok and weather should be clearing through the day.

Free rides for anyone with a wetsuit and a death wish/sense of adventure

Title: Re: Draycote Sat 19th
Post by: Torchy on October 19, 2013, 08:42:48 PM

Very gusty day at Draycote: 8-18kn

Awesome sail in Loco as the combination of Tom Slater and Nigel Modern induced a tendency to nose dive never seen before. Some spectacular leaps by Tom to preserve an intact mainsail during some wild capsizes - sterling work!

Moment of the day was the look on face of the the guy learning to race in a Pico - he began to regret trying to cross our bow with us going full on downwind, which we had tried to discourage, when Loco got a gust and...well you can guess the rest.

Jamie got his foiling moth up and running, showing skill and bravado right up to the moment he clipped the leach of Loco's mainsail with the top of his mast when sailing through her to lee upwind  :)

Hopefully Ade. Will pop up with tales of Sweet Dreams. Ade was pointing spectacularly high we think...though it's possible recent changes to Loco and a slack rig set up (rushed rigging for no good reason) contributed.

Draycote seemed to enjoy having us there - I think they were hoping to see a pitch-pole. At one point the guy in the rescue boat seemed to be having difficulty controlling his hilarity having witnessed one of our capsizes.

Title: Re: Draycote Sat 19th
Post by: stom on October 19, 2013, 09:34:58 PM

I lost count of the number of times I did this today!

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8238/8509213743_17d15bf3a8_o.jpg)

Thanks for the invite Nigel, It's been an entertaining day!

Title: Re: Draycote Sat 19th
Post by: JP233 on October 19, 2013, 11:25:26 PM

sorry nigel!
should have had a gopro on for it!  :/

Title: Re: Draycote Sat 19th
Post by: Torchy on October 20, 2013, 09:19:19 AM

The best shot of the day would have been from the end of Loco's pole looking forward at the terrified youngster's face...what he didn't know is that I would have binned it if a collision seemed imminent  8)

Title: Re: Draycote Sat 19th
Post by: simon_jones on October 20, 2013, 10:30:43 AM

Good show all, we may be visiting for the Draycote Dash soon, so don't discount the possibilities of pitch poles just yet. As for the terrified youngster he's just another person who will remember the awesome sight of a cherub at full chat, and think one day I want one of those.