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Looking very light in Malahide 6-8 knots, if you can trust these forecasts. http://www.yr.no/place/Ireland/Other/Malahide_Inlet/hour_by_hour.html
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It's less prone than the bay. There was some talk / rumors of moving DBSC Saturday racing there for that very reason.Am I right in thinking that area is prone to that?
Sorry to hear about the bruises!
My OH bruises really easily and when she'd go to work after sailing they all thought I was beating the crap out of her at home!! wouldn't believe the 'I did it sailing' reason
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the bends in the rigs and the big overlappers, always wonder how the bowmen managed to stay on those yokes especially through the gybes
As a bow nipper when sports boats first came to Ireland - had the honor of being bowman on the first Irish Corby!! , gybes weren't the problem, tacks were.. on the foredeck tying on a kite and the office decides to tack without telling you... boat literally gone from beneath you 0 -
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My OH bruises really easily and when she'd go to work after sailing they all thought I was beating the crap out of her at home!! wouldn't believe the 'I did it sailing' reason
Oh I have specific days where I won't wear a skirt into work as the sheer bruising around my knees would lead to endless speculation.
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As a bow nipper when sports boats first came to Ireland - had the honor of being bowman on the first Irish Corby!! , gybes weren't the problem, tacks were.. on the foredeck tying on a kite and the office decides to tack without telling you... boat literally gone from beneath you
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I too was a bowman waay back (when Corby was only a nipper). I never recall anyone going overboard.As a bow nipper when sports boats first came to Ireland - had the honor of being bowman on the first Irish Corby!! , gybes weren't the problem, tacks were.. on the foredeck tying on a kite and the office decides to tack without telling you... boat literally gone from beneath you
I agree 100% on the unexpected tacks – they were a killer! On that boat (3/4 tonner, typical IOR design, rudder out of the water half the time) we had an inner forestay that was used to tweak the rig and dip-pole gybing. When gybing I used to squeeze between the forestay and the pulpit facing aft so it was tight and I could easily snap the lazy guy into the spinny pole as it passed through. On one occasion my counterpart at the mast end of the pole (his job was to hoist the inboard end up the track) came forward (because the inner forestay was still tethered) and the bow dug in, causing my auto-inflating jacket to pop. I was totally stuck, we gybed and as everyone though it was hysterically funny it took quite a while to extricate myself.
Useless bit of information #2 - Corby’s father was the designer of the eponymous trouser press.0 -
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Depends how you look, if you chart it you get kts on the right hand scale.HeidiHeidi wrote: »Does anyone know if you can change the wind settings on yr.no to kts, instead of m/s?
I can't do the m/s thing at all - I know the tails on the arrows are probably showing knots (I think??) but is it possible to get the numbers to show knots?
As p rightly said, multiply m/s by 2 to get kts for a rough conversion.
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HeidiHeidi wrote: »Uurgh....early start for me tomorrow this time, setting sail for Schull early tomorrow after a much later night than intended.... :eek:
Hope it's going well
I have a stupid question, I was helming today for about four hours, was much more comfortable with it
Now I expect to feel a bit of a burn in my arms/ shoulders etc afterwards, but my legs also ache
Is this something those of you helm experience? Bear in mind I'm not very fit0 -
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You use your legs a lot to keep yourself up on the high side.Hope it's going well
I have a stupid question, I was helming today for about four hours, was much more comfortable with it
Now I expect to feel a bit of a burn in my arms/ shoulders etc afterwards, but my legs also ache
Is this something those of you helm experience? Bear in mind I'm not very fit0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfzSbsXmlJs
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