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Cherub Chat => Calendar Events => Topic started by: PaulJ on November 28, 2013, 01:15:55 PM
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Event - Isle of Sheppey SC, Cherub Open Meeting - Travellers Series
Dates - Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th April 2014
Location - Cheyney Rock, Marine Parade, Sheerness, Kent. ME12 2BE
Start time - Saturday 13:00, sharing with ISO, Buzz and Laser 4000 Fleets
Cost - £30 per boat
Schedule -
Saturday:
12.00 Briefing
13.00 - 3 races back to back.
Sunday:
11.00 - 3 races back to back (no races sailed after 15.00)
Notice of race - not yet available
Sailing Instructions - not yet available
Racing - Committee boats starts, windward/leeward courses, event shared with ISO, Buzz and Laser 4000 fleets
Accommodation - to be advised
Food and drink - club galley open during the day and bar open until late. Takeaway curry available in the evening
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SDzzz almost no on this one. hopefully easter white stuff calling, powder in the morning - slush in the afternoon
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SDzzz is a definate no on this one. I am away on school trip; hope its warm, the sun shines and its 15+winds.
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Madge is also a no go due to an 18ft training event at datchet
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Unfortunately team Slatter are in hot and sunny Dubai and Saudi ( going to sail moths and 18ft skiffs along with checking the progress of the paterson 8 currently being constructed out there), I am looking forward to the next event after this.
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Poppy is definitely yes and looking forward to it.
BS is available for loan as can be double stacked to the event.
Si is there crashing accomodation at this one or can we sleep at the club?
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I will try to be there with robin, depends how fast we get up to speed and how windy it is, will confirm nearer the time
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Suggestion is to turn up :-) You have a very good '97 rig with that boat too?
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As normal anyone who wants a bed/floor space is welcome to stay at my house. This is a cherub only event, so if you can make it please do as the club would appreciate as many boats as we can get.
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We're planning on attending.
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Cheese will be there, looking forward to it!
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
Am intending to bring Cheese (and Tom) to Sheppey. We are very new to the Travellers series so was wondering if there is likely to be an event update on this forum or if anyone out there can offer an advice on times, cost, accommodation, etc.?
Crewed Cheese for the first time on Sunday, still struggling to walk on Wednesday!
Jonathan
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Dean and/or Si will be along to confirm shortly about timings and cost.
As a general rule expect entry to be around £30. Si has indicated that accommodation is via floor at either the club or Si's house (both about equidistant from the bottom of the slipway).
All welcome and should be a fantastic event - sheppy are always very welcoming.
((PS The only way it gets easier is with more time in the boat :-) ))
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Hi all,
The cost for this one is £30.00 there are six races scheduled 3 per day sailed back to back.
The briefing is 12.00 on Saturday first race at 13.00, on Sunday the start is 11.00 with no races to be started after 15.00.
Food in the evening will be a takeaway curry delivered to the clubhouse, and as Ro has said accommodation is available at mine or the clubhouse.
Hope to see as many of you there as possible for what should be a great weekends sailing.
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Todays's rumour is that Born Slippy will be there. Piloted by a skinny hairy kid - with some serious military hardware on the wire.
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these rumers are true.
stay away from my high(ly) dense (ity) round that is pvt. still.
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Atum is coming to this one.
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So far then we have
Poppy
Cheese
Banshee ambulance
Riot van
Eleanor
Atum
Born Slippy
Has anyone heard from Clive and Paul J ?
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I think they are both in
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We should be there.
Hopefully we will put in a better showing than we did at Rutland.
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Robin and I will be there, had to sort logistics out, so I'm learning to tow this week. Mast is in the hallway having a spreader fixed but all should be fine
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Si, can I bagsy a plot of floor for my sleeping bag please?
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NOTICE TO CLASS MEMBERS
There is a debate about a request for a rule waiver for the event. Please see the thread in the members area of the forum. If you can't access this please PM me.
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No probs Polly you're welcome.
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No probs Polly you're welcome.
Cheers.
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Si - would it be possible to "borrow" the club's crows nest on Friday night?
I think Born Slippy and Poppy + crew's would be tempted to see what a few beers in Sheppy on a Friday night is like....
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hi again, is there anywhere robin and i can stay on the friday and saturday ? cheers
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Steve you and Robin are welcome to stay at my house on Friday and Saturday.
Ro I will ask the commodore about the crows nest, however as above you are welcome at ours, if the club can't do it.
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thats great thanks :) see you friday :D
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I have spoken to the commodore re Friday night, he has no issue with people crashing on the floor of the club. He will also open the bar for visitors and members.
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Steve have PM'd you my phone number to contact me when arriving.
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My crew can no longer make the Saturday, is there anybody that can help me out?
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I have a friend who hasn't sailed cherub but is good and owns a 5k and is free this weekend if no cherub sailors are available.
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Si - would it be possible to "borrow" the club's crows nest on Friday night?
I think Born Slippy and Poppy + crew's would be tempted to see what a few beers in Sheppy on a Friday night is like....
Is this still the plan? Steve and Robin are arriving on Friday also.
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Si,
Poppy, Born slippy and Polly,Jamie,Digby and I would love to arrive at about 9pm. If this is a problem then Cptn travelodge is jsut as easy.
R
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This will be fine the club will be open, drop the boats there and come upstairs for a beer or two.
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We're looking to come up Friday night too and take advantage of the clubhouse floor if this is ok?
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That's ok, what time do you anticipate arriving? I'll PM you my phone number.
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Thank you, we're looking at arriving between 8 and 9 if this is alright?
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We should be at the club at that sort of time.
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Marginally epic first day.
9 Cherubs at Sheppy having a lovely time. Fresh wind and salt water combining to generate a happy host of rather briken looking Cherub Sailors sitting down to a good take out curry.
Wish you were here, shocked to hear of the absence of a very good friend...
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Keep the updates coming Roland. Evening here in Iloilo however family visiting combined with an absence of aircon and a bout of food poisoning makes me almost wish for a cold Saturday in Rutland - however only almost.......
Had some fantastic diving last week, I think I saw a mysterious t-shape on the bottom, perhaps Grahams errant t-foil from babbacombe :D
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What a brilliant weekends sailing. Congratulations to Paul and Peter who are showing some blistering pace, also first timers Frodo and Merry aka. Steve and Robin and Tom and various crews in Cheese.
For all those who couldn't make it, the weather was around 15knots on Saturday with several crews taking a dip in the Thames estury. Cool Beans took 3 bullets hotly pursued by Eleanor, A&E, and Atum.
Clive then fell on Alex which resulted in a retirement. So day one ended with Cool Beans leading followed by Eleanor then Atum.
Today was bright and sunny with slightly less breeze for race 1, Paul continued where he left off leaving Eleanor and Atum fighting out for 2nd. Eleanor managed to get a bit of a lead only to throw it away by swimming on the gybe. Race 2 saw the wind dropping off and Paul sailed into a hole in the wind to let Eleanor through for a win, and race 3 saw some confusion on the part of the race team with a shortened course causing Paul who was leading to think he'd finnished, which once again allowed Eleanor though for the bullet. Thanks Paul for being so gracious about it we know you beat us really.
The top 3 ended up as Cool Beans 1st Eleanor 2nd and Atum 3rd.
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thanks to everyone at iossc for hosting a great event and thanks to simon for giving us a sleeping place more compfortable than my car. we learned loads about sailing (and fixing boats). we both agreed that the cherub fleet is the nicest and most accomodating fleets we have seen so far in our sailing careers. shame about the spreader, but we will post updates on the tech chat part of the forum to show off our first of many to come carbon repairs. cheers, Steve and Robin aka team hobbit
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Some news (for you to decide if good or bad). Just bern to hospital and my hand isn't broken (though they're checking again) but is soft tissue damage which means no sailing and lots of drugs (pain kollers that is). Now just to wait for the other half of our boat's results.
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found this on Y&Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nZKcdGMJus
must have been 2nd race on sunday as as digby couldnt make my long thing out the front extend
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Oh dear, of course when the wind got iffy.
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Looks a handfull, how is progress going with the foils ?
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Report from the Weekend. sorry it is so late, i have been pretty busy for the past while.
9 teams of battered and bruised Cherub sailors made the trip to the Isle of Sheppey after the tempestuous melee that was Rutland 3 weekends previously. You may think that you are going to hear about the winners Paul and Peter Jenkins in Cool Beans and their masterful 4 wins out of 6 and a moral victory in the last race after thinking the shortened course signal was them being tooted for a finish, or Dean Ralph and Simon Jones in Eleanor taking a great win in race 5 managing to find wind where others didn’t, but no, this story is the second part in the tale of one particular boat. 8 years old, regular crew absent, helm unsure as to whether his stand in crew would be able to fill the big boots left behind by Tim Noyce. Once again, the odds were stacked against Atum Bom. Andy Whappshot (crew for the day) had a stinking cold, and the prospect of sailing with Ben Rushton, a helm who had shared a boat with him for minutes at most prior to this regatta, was filling him with dread.
Now as many of us may know, the key to a successful days sailing is to start with the right sustenance. However, while distracted by the phallic course set by the RO at IOSSC, our heroes Andy and Ben had forgotten to eat any breakfast. This was realized soon after launching leaving them to race the whole day on empty stomachs getting ever and ever hungrier and having to dig deeper and deeper. The wind was a promising 15kts with some fruiter gusts thrown in for good measure. The added interest today was a tide coupled with the flow of the Thames, which took some by surprise when they missed the lay-lines up the first beat. This was not an issue for Atum who seemed unable to get it wrong, meaning a slight disadvantage in boat speed was made up in most races by tacking only once up the beat. The course for race 1 had been huge and within the fleet there were plenty of 1 on 1’s going on. Poppy showed good pace but fortunately for our heroes, they managed to put in their best tack of the weekend at just the right time to take 4th place in front by 3 seconds. In contrast to race 1, race 2 saw the phallus shrunk to shorten the time out on the course, half the fleet missed this and sailed off into the distance trying to emulate the Atumists 1 tack tactic. A+E went so far before they realized where they were heading, they contemplated hoisting the kite to get back to the windward mark, unfortunately a broken foot loop resulted in a helm, crew, shroud convocation leading to early retirement for the day. Elsewhere on the course, the capsize recovery practice Tim and Ben had put in at Rutland really paid off and while some may see capsizing with the kite up at the leeward mark as a disadvantage, for the Atumists it probably made the drop faster and the round up even sharper than it might have been if they had tried to do it with the mast pointing skyward. A costly capsize by Eleanor on the gybe in this race gave Atum the gap she needed to nip into second place and cross the line seconds before them. After this, energy levels were low and the Atumists were getting desperate. Someone up there was smiling on them though when an ancient Boost bar was found in the depths of a buoyancy aid pocket. Filled with new energy they took race 3 head on. The newest crew to the fleet, Robin and Steve in Banshee Ambulance, a boat that has not been seen at a cherub open for a year or so, showed some great potential. They found themselves second round the top mark but a capsize on the downwind leg cost them dear and Eleanor and Atum slipped through to take second and third respectively.
With racing done for the day, all boats and crews then retired to the club where some of the hardier members decided that rum was the order of the day. These people obviously hadn’t witnessed the drop in performance of the Atumists at Rutland 3 Sundays back after having tried to keep the local brewery in business the night before. Curries were had by most (if they weren’t too distracted by the phallic course diagram and remembered to order them at the briefing) and while some preferred beds, the cold hard floor of the clubhouse suited.
For one Atumist at least, Sunday dawned fuzzily. Far too much red wind and the world’s largest measure of whisky had been administered by the competition in an effort to take edge of their performance. Fortunately many others had been out in Sheerness re-leveling the playing field. With the wind down from Saturday, racing promised to be closer and mistakes costlier, Eleanor capsizing on the downwind leg of race two to let Atum through again to take 3rd from Cool Beans and A+E. Elsewhere on the course, Jamie and Digby in Born Slippy (in 05 mode) made a top off on the beach at Sheerness for ice cream after Digby was unable to pull hard enough for Jamie’s pole to come out the front. With that sorted, they joined back for a 2nd race in dying breeze and growing tide. Whilst far from epic, this race was hotly contested and with Cool Beans on 4 bullets everyone was waiting for them to make a mistake. Fortunately for Eleanor, they sailed into a massive hole, which cost them the lead for the first time in this open meeting. Todays sailing was all about who found the wind. The one tack wonder tactics Atum had so successfully used on Saturday had gone out the window, missing the top mark on almost every lap. The wind came through in waves on the last race but seemed to die completely at times, marginal conditions is not where Atum excels being pushed down into fourth by A+E with substitute crew, Eleanor took another win and Cool Beans who were leading until they decided to head in on the shortened course signal with a lap to go.
Great event from IOSSC where lessons about mid event drinking still need to be learned.
If you are tired of hearing about the antics of the mighty Atumists then you had better up your game and knock us off the podium at Weir Wood on the 17th/18th May
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Great write up Ben, we will have to stop falling over it's letting us down. Bring on Weir Wood;-)
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you and us both!