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Cherub Chat => Calendar Events => Topic started by: Stuberry on February 12, 2009, 11:59:00 AM
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What? Post dinghy show / start of the season Blast
Where? Rutland SC
When? 28th & 29th March
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Taking Liberties will be there. Her crew and helm may well be cowering in the clubhouse waiting for summer to arrive ;D
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Loco will be there!
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Would be people to be willing to give people rides as we have done in the past? If so we can advertise it at the show and try and get some real interest, which i am willing to sort out/manage
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That is the general plan. The cost is £25 launching fee for the weekend so that generally covers anyone who wants to have a go as well. There is good space for rigging and launching right by the clubhouse too so it should be quite easy to run.
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I'm hoping to launch Fuzzy on the Sunday. I'm working on the Saturday.
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Would be people to be willing to give people rides as we have done in the past? If so we can advertise it at the show and try and get some real interest, which i am willing to sort out/manage
OK so you are the contact link on the front page :-)
I'm guessing one of those out there with a better grasp on English will tidy up the door-mat I just created on the wiki front page...
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What about someone putting a class thingy on y and y? to say cherubs will be at rutland and if your interested come and watch or have a ride?
just an idea, unless its already been done - just get the fleet in public eye :)
we prob wont be there though :( as its the fireball open at our club....
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Good idea Debi. Well volunteered.
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I directed a couple of people to this thread to express their interest in coming.
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I spoke to three people on sat who expressed an interest in having a go. I also pointed them in this direction.
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Good idea Debi. Well volunteered.
Urm, surely thats a publicity job - MK??
Plus i dont have a log in for y and y or have a clue how the website works :P
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Born Slippy will probably be there.
Does anyone have any accomodation plans?
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You can stay in the bunkhouse at Rutland for £11 a night. It is most excellent and highly recommended.
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So Debi, what have you got planned on the social side for Rutland?
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Is the bunkhouse £11/night extra to the £25 weekend launch fee? Not complaining, just need to make sure I bring enough pennies.
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Yes, it is extra.
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You get full access to the changing rooms and facilities all night, and there is a pub within a short walk from the sailing club if you want to go there after the club stops serving. Depending on what else is going on that weekend will depend on what sort of food and drink services the club is offering. They do a good breakfast too!
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I'll be there with my helm Jon, having a good look at what's about! Think we'll be there both days, if that's alright with y'all?
So if anyone can make some space for us during the days that'd be brilliant, you've all got to help swing the balance and convince him that Cherubs are the only way to go ;)
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I'm planning to come up on Saturday evening the obligatory drinks and curry! Will it still be £25 if you only sail one day?
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Will Flat Stanley be able to come?
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Dean and I will possibly only be able to go on one day, as Dean has a sack of coursework to do. Thinking of sail on sat then curry etc with a late run home.
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Do you want me to provisionally book a table at curry place? then leave the details with timmy icase of number changes etc?!?
Do you need me to investigate nr by curry places or has anyone already got one in mind?!? :)
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I won't be attending the blast unfortunately as I will be in Wales at Gavs wedding!
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It now looks like Loco wont be able to make it. :'( But I might come up anyway if someone wants a crew.
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I am around for both days if any one wants a crew or a helm
Tim
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Can we have a roll call for Rutland? I need to confirm numbers to the club ASAP.
So far I have:
Taking Liberties
Fuzzy Logic
Dangerous Strawberry
Dan's Boat
Born Slippy
Has everyone got their accomadation sorted? I haven't booked my room so if anyone wants me to sort it out at the same time, let me know.
Cheers
Stuberry
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Add the Kiddles to that list for the Saturday afaik.
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Also, if you want to sort two beds out for Team Libs that'd be ace. Assuming we stump up the cash when we get there.. no pre-booking or anything?
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I have a change of plan I will be bringing up Cheese Before Bed Time so if any wants a play let me know.
Tim
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I will be there with Beans for Saturday (and Saturday eve!) Their should be a MK and a Sarah coming too.
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Do we have an indication of how many non-cherrubists there are comming?
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The updated roll call:
Taking Liberties (Jo and Rich)
Dangerous Strawberry (Stu)
Dan's Boat (Dan)
Born Slippy (Roland and Hayley)
Antidote to Panel Games (Will and Lucy)
Cheese Before Bedtime (Tim U both days and Paul on Sunday)
Dangerous Beans (Tom, Maf and Sarah on Saturday)
Fuzzy Logic (Ross and Adam Saturday Eve and Sunday)
Guest Cherubers:
John (Ham4Sand)
Matt Purdon
If I'm missing anyone please let me know!
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Guest Cherubers:
John (Ham4Sand)
Matt Purdon + Jon Holmes
We'll be coming up in a very poorly series 1 Landy, so we may or may not be there in time for the start of things on saturday :P
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yes ill be there, just to tell tom that iv got transport back from rutland on sunday so no worries. What time did you say you were going to be in northhampton:)
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how did it go? any good photos? i know the wind here today was a solid 5 not sure how it was in rutland.
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It's next week Matt ;)
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Forecast reckons nice wind but chilly weather.. everyone think sunny thoughts! 8)
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Dean can't make it . However I am thinking I might come anyway, sadley can't bring Loco so if anyone needs a crew for sat let me know. I'm also up for the curry :P
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It's next week Matt ;)
just realised :-[ oops, its a result of gettin old i'm sure...
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gettin old i'm sure...
Only one way of getting around that - see you on Sat?
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sadly not, its one of two big dos at the sailing club this weekend which combined with a boat still in bits means i'm going to give it a miss. hoping to get things sorted by the end of the month for a trip out at bala end of may and hopeully thornbury the week after...
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Ho hum, good luck with getting together and look forward to seeing you at Babbacombe (August 12th - 15th) if not before.
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Anyone feeling handy with a sewing machine? We ripped an 18" section of the hem off Libs' kite at the weekend and my sister's wussed out of tackling it with the vintage hand sewing machine which is the only one in the house ;D
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I'll do it if you can get it to me.
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Cheers for the offer Hoppy, but I need to fit a new exhaust and fix the clutch on the 110 before the weekend as it is so I'm a bit stuck for time and mobility! :(
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You can always use the black and green kite. It's pretty fast but is a bit of a bugger to trim.
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Not sure we'll be making it up there. As of this afternoon I need to:
- fix land rover clutch
- fit new exhaust
- source new intake manifold
- remove turbo and fit the above manifold
- buy and fit two new ujs to the rear propshaft
- repair spinnaker
- get rid a sore throat and temperature
Wish me luck :(
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We ripped....
"We"? ::) :P
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Saturday
Decent turnout. Fuzzy Logic, Antidote, Dan's Boat, Born Slippy, Dangerous Beans, Cheese Before Bedtime all turned up to a very, VERY windy Rutland. Cheese waisted no time in hitting the water. They were launching as I rolled in, pea style. There was lots of standing around in ocean sailing gear and chatting in between some serious precipitation. Several hail storms hit us hard and out of nowhere. Roland and Haley rigged Born Slippy, then derigged, and then rigged again, then broke a spreader which wrote off sailing sailing for the day.
Cheese was really sending it and giving the rescue boat a run for it's money. Top speed was at the top end of 19 knots. Paul first went out with Tim Unerman, followed by Will, followed by newbie John and I think followed by Tim again. Paul has clearly upgraded to Lithium batteries and got rid of those old alkalis! Showed the rest of us how to sail in breeze as usual.
Stu and Dan rigged Dan's Boat and got owned by the worlds worst timed 40mph gust. It went down hill from there and to cut a long story short the eventually got back on dry-ish land. Respect is due for launching.
Adem and I rigged Fuzzy which took several hours due to way to much faffing, chatting and watching Cheese burning around. We finally hit the water and promptly pissed it in when I hit the wire and the tiller extension came off simultainiously. Stu recovered it, taped it back on and we launched for the second time. We tacked over the topper squadies who were falling over left right and centre and shot off to the top of the lake. Several tiring capsizes later and we attempted to hoist the kite only to find that we had rigged it like retards. We capsized, righted the boat and headed for a bit of a wind shadow to attempt a second hoist hoping that it would have somehow fixed itself. It hadn't and no matter how hard I pulled the kite sheet it wasn't going to get any better. We capsized, righted the boat and made it back to shore survival style but at least it was under our own steam.
Team Elway did the sensible and went windsurfing.
Social was a well deserved pub dinner accompanied with several drinks for some, good chat and a chilli walk home.
Sunday
Beans and Cheese went home with perfectly legitimate reasons.
The Lake was a mirror but it just about filled in enough to twin downwind if you heated it up. Initially I decided against going sailing as it looked very much like I was foredeck bound. Everyone else rigged and went for a yacht. I let Adem and John take Fuzzy out for 'blast' and to my surprise they were actually moving. Stu and Dan came in and Stu very quickly convinced me to go out in Dan's Boat. The kite went up and we eventually got enough of a puff to twin so we sent it down the lake and shot passed some SB3's and Mustos floating about. I like Dan's Boat. ;D We managed to catch up with Fuzzy and they looked really good. It was great fun twinning it about with them. We weren't making much ground on them!
Antidote had a good day on the water and was sailed by both the Lee's and Team Elway. Most of the day was spent miles down the lake and they were just an orange glow on the horizon. The Lee's had spectacular kite run in the turbo-traffic-cone past the club house which was watched by everyone (you couldn't miss it!). Many jealous comments were made. Well played!
A cracking start to the season and I hope it's set the tone for coming events. Well done Stu for organising and well done to every who showed up!
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We gave the tower a fly-by - glad you saw it.
"Negative, the pattern is full."
We are both still fizzing from a weekend full of Cherubby goodness!
Twisty grip is an interesting issue.
Must stop dreaming of cherubs and do some work.
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sounds a brilliant weekend, are there any photos?
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Man of the match: Stu for organising everything.
Runner up: Paul for being a lithium powered bunny.
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Interesting factoids of the day:
1. The spell checker on this forum can spell factoid!
2. If you go sailing in fingerless gloves, in cold weather you loose feeling in the tips of your fingers, we all know that. However, when you go to work the next day and try to do an angioplasty (stick a big needle in an artery, feed a wire up, exchange the needle for a thin catheter, remove wire, inject dye, take pictures, feed wire further up past big blockage, change for different catheter, inflate balloon on catheter to clear blockage etc etc) then you might find it really really hard to feel your finger-tips if you've been sailing the day before and this makes finding said artery, and the subsequent fiddling about very much harder than it aught to be!
3. It is hard to concentrate on work when you're still thinking 'Yeee Ha Jester's dead' every few minutes.
Thank you to Stuberry Enterprises for a top weekend.
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Had a great time, forgotten how much fun Cheese is in big winds. Shame we missed Will and Lucy's flyby I think we crashed into the tower on Saturday! After the 4.30am start and a busy family day on Sunday I am now feeling competely shot. Good to see you all. and thanks Stu for organising.
P.S. Anyone come across a T foil floating around?