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Cherub Chat => Calendar Events => Topic started by: andy_peters on March 27, 2017, 10:26:57 AM
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Part of their famous Easter Grand Slam multi class event. That is a 3 day event Friday to Sunday but only the weekend races will count for the Cherub traveller trophy.
Camping is available on-site or there is a pub just down the road that has rooms (and reasonable food)
Nor and SI's are here https://www.weston.org.uk/open-events (https://www.weston.org.uk/open-events)
Their intention is committee boat starts and W/L courses. The start on Sat/Sunday is a civilised 13:00
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Sven and I will be there - probably arriving friday, but unlikely to sail until Saturday!
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Shiny will probably be there Friday night disappearing Monday afternoon.
Friday night....Jesters?
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Remember that you'll need a youf to sign in anyone who looks over 26!
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Unfortunately we won't be there.
More fortunately I will be sailing an Easter regatta here
http://world-bays.com/puerto-galera-bay/ (http://world-bays.com/puerto-galera-bay/)
Sailing from here
https://www.pgyc.org/home.php (https://www.pgyc.org/home.php)
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Andy, As fixtures sec, sort it out as a venue for the galactic 12' event so that we can all be there next Easter.
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Anyone need a crew/helm? or fancy lending me a boat? Squid is still in Pearson Engineering.... but keen for some cherub sailing in my life, that and the missus is away so I've got an all weekend pass.
Cheers
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Not going to make this one either. I think work are looking at the fixtures list to annoy me
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Roll on the high pressure! Me gots some, maybe not to secret, mods in my socks.
Attendance looks like:
Green bananas with el president and ze treasurer
Banshee ambulance with a hobbit and a Sven
EJ with a Jay and a Whaps
Shiny with a Rosie and a Jim (pending exhaust change)
Maybe a dans boat with two Hartley's?
Clive?
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My cunning mod will be to turn up with my own kite, and two people for two days!
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We are planning to be there.
It is Alex's birthday on the Sunday and there is a downhill event that he wants to do.
The forecast might decide.
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If anyone is short on something which is stopping them attending let me know, although I cant make the event and have a boat in pieces Im hoping to pop by for some social and could lend some parts if it helps someone make the event
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Has anyone got a bouncy aid that might fit Alex he seems to have grown. We have one on order but I am not sure if it will get here.
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I'll make sure to bring my old one. Its not the best, but its something :)
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Has anyone got a bouncy aid that might fit Alex he seems to have grown. We have one on order but I am not sure if it will get here.
Likewise I have a large XL and M you can pick from, will need two out of 3 for some windsurfing I plan to enjoy over the bank holiday, but being if havant you could pick it up that would be ideal, or Ill leave one with the President - feel free to PM me to sort it
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I don't think that we we going to need the BA. Currently waiting in the wrong A+E.
Any one want to buy a downhill bike.
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By my reckoning this should be out scoreboard.
Taken off the website, - http://sailwave.com/results/WSC/2017/GrandSlam.htm - , then broken down with our open results.
Please can someone double check.
Banshee: (2 ), 1, 2, 1, 1 - 5
Dans: 1, (6), 1, 3, 3 - 8
EJ: 4, 5, (6), 4, 4 - 17
Shiny: (6), 4, 3, 2, 6 - 15
Bananas: 5, 3, (6), 6, 5 - 19
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EJ was 4th with 17.
So shiney third. ;)
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Congrats to Robin and Sven. Cherub and Fast h'cap winners
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Uk cherub open meeting 2 - Weston sailing club, part of the Weston grand slam.
Friday became the exodus of cherubs mainly heading south for the second open meeting of the year. Most arrived by late Friday afternoon and some slow rigging ensued, Jamie had a plethora of sails to put up the mast and fine tune his new boom with internal mainsheet system. EJ had some rope swaps to do, the Hartleys had to head back for their tiller extensions, oops, they were the only ones to get some sailing done that day, once darkness began to fall we cracked open the BBQ and cooked far too much meat which turned out to be just enough.
This is a tale of woe from the shiny beast. Basically all that could go wrong without being a major issue did for us, so I'm not really sure what happened to the rest of the fleet but rules are rules and I must write a report.
Saturday. Day 1 of racing
First race at 1300hrs meant another slow rig, some had too slow a rig. EJ and shiny were last off the shore, but with shiny insisting on a test run of the kite she was late for the start, good thing they did do a test as something was wrong so they went in. Because of this, I don't have much to add on race 1.
Race 2, after the cats had gone everyone bustled for the line, except shiny. Banshee ambulance began to pull away from the fleet with the illusive wing mast, dans boat was on their tail and now they seemed to cope with downwind it was robins too loose
Tea break time, not really sure why this happens. But it did.
Back out for race three. Again, shiny somewhere else, but with the wind building in the shifty Weston conditions it was undecided which side was best to head up.
Not sure what happend for the first half of the race, but rounding the top mark last, we could see a grave yard appearing downwind. As we got closer we found out why, these were some weird waves! This was our chance to show what we were made off and go from last to first on one foul move, the plan was made, a drop, granny tack round and lose all dignity and respect from everyone for not gybing. Easy! We then proceeded to capsize on the drop, so I did get to keep some respect..... I think.
EJ snapped a spreader, analysis reveals cause to be from aggressive rolling over to rig on shore so headed in.
Evening entertainment was everyone jumping through a reel of battens as it rolled down a hill, then the local Chinese takeaway provided some dinner, and breakfast!
Sunday was forecast to be windier, at 0900 it was flat calm so the great debate of which rags to put up set upon the fleet, robin swapped to a bigger jib, nick was undecided as to be underpowered or over powered. Jamie swapped the silly boom for the trusted normal boom. Jay in EJ got his spreader repaired and rig tuned again.
Race 4. Shiny actually got to the start line, and proceeded to lead the first upwind leg and downwind after locking on the the new leeward mark all was looking peachy. The rest of the fleet still hadn't separated out so one slip up could cost a lot!
This is exactly what happened to shiny. From first to 6th in less than a minuet due to taking and finding themselves on a collision course with a pacing cat.
Race 5, with the wind now blowing everyone was reaching for the downhaul, mistakes were being made and a few t foils were being showed off more than most would have liked. Green banana was slow as they forgot to put bungs in at the start of the day.
Congratulations got the robin jones and joe White in banshee ambulance for her first race win and event win(?)
Commiserations go to Alex and Clive Everest due to Alex's bike fail landing him wonkey and later with some stitches resulting in no sailing.
Scores on the doors were:
Banshee: (2) , 1 , 2 , 1 , 1 - 5
Dans: 1 ,(6) , 1 , 3 , 2 - 7
Shiny: (6) , 3 , 3 , 2 , 5 - 13
EJ: 3 , 4 , (6) , 4 , 3 - 14
Bananas: 4 , 2 , (6) , 5 , 4 - 15
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As I said, I don't really have a clue what happens to everyone else this event.
If someone who knows what happened wants to bulk it out. Please do.
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Looks like we missed another epic Weston.