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Thank you to all who have sent their thanks; we will do it again next year!

Apologies for the delay in posting a report but the results got lost in transit and I am having a bit of a techo nightmare trying to paste the photos! Chadders has the results for the Bailer Series as amended to delete the four plankers and I hope to finish off the write up next week (and the one about NWNW).

By the way, has anyone seen the report about the Yorkshie Ouse Open back in June? Or am I having a senior moment?

Oh and is there a deadline for the next newsletter?

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Thank you to all who turned up last Saturday at TVSC to support our Vintage & 4 PLank Open meeting - even though we were missing some of the regulars there were 13 boats (10 vintage) competing in the "John Sears Exhibition Event", and some new faces too!

A full report with photos will be available later in the week.

The forecast for Saturady is looking good (per BBC/MetOff) dry, sunny spells with a decent breeze - so what's the excuse for not coming down to TVSC?

Indications are we have an entry of 10(ish), so we would welcome lots more entries!

French definitions for you:

Coup de grace - french lawn mower

An apperitif - a set of french dentures

Metronome - a little man who works on the french underground

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Greetings - and Vince Phillips has just promised to be there (subject to it not blowing a gale!). And, Mrs RM, we have a supply of spare rudders......... so there's no excuse!

And sorry we won't be seeing you John; hope you are fit and well soon!

Dolly Daydream will be there!

I see my name is mentioned above re Crazy Diamond - please refer to the other thread on this subject about taking the floor out, crew and helm comfort etc! And I find my new AC (Microclipper)even more comfortable than the China Doll!

Just to correct a point from David W - I did not take out the WHOLE floor of Crazy Diamond, only the section from the front tank back to where the helm's feet usually are. The rear floor was left intact as a bouyancy tank and the section each side of the centreboard case was also left effectively forming a further bouyancy each side of the case. The central tunnel was also left in the boat from the back of the case to the transom, so that when you capsized only holf the boat filled up and then, because there was so much bouyancy, most of the water went out the back leaving only the footwell on one side with water in it (to be dealt with by self bailers or bucket! - effectively semi-self draining. Only problem is when launching in that water does come into the boat from the transom, but it far easier to right the boat at a capsize as it does not float too high in the water. Probably a fair compromise but it is also easier to get under the boom and more comfortable for the crew especially with a thwart to sit on. For the technical stuff you would need to talk to Mike Cooke who did the work.

Greetings!

I hope to be there (subject to Gerry being able to finish various repairs and improvements to Microclipper by then) - and Kevan making some new super ALVERBANK sails! Regret won't be able to stay down for the GILL at Thorpe Bay as Christine has to be back at work Sunday am!

And let's hope it's not quite as windy as the vintage meeting at Derwent yesterday!

Very interesting thread this!

Grazz - thank you for taking up the batton on this; from my point of view the Burghfield training day this year was brilliant!

THG point 4 - getting groups of local clubs together must surely be a way of not only having sufficient prople together to justify a training session, but sadly there is not much reponse to my thread on a local east midlands club series which would include training but would also boost the N12 profile at each individual club (and maybe encourage more people to sail 12s). But surely we should also help our own club sailors by doing boat swaps, experienced crews going out with novice helms etc? And what about getting the kids into N12s - they all seem to sail single handers and many are lost to sailing coz them would rather crew than helm - and they seem to have less fun/social interaction as they don't get to learn team work. Can we not hook up to organisations like Derbyshire Youth Sailing and let the kids have a sail in a 12?

Ken - although TVSC is not "up north" we would happily host a training session, as part of a em club series or stand alone.

BW - the thought of an intensive week of huge hours of hard slog on the water every day with the high powered boyz/gurlz in their F1 carbon yots disappearing over the horizon after ten minutes may just be putting off the inexperienced and/or older helms, the AC/4 plank/vintage/club boat owners and the pond/ditch crawlers (you can guess which of several classifications I belong to although I did three BWs in the late 60s, early 70s which is why I go to NWNW!) Being a fairly hopeless sea sailor I might be tempted to BW if there were a day or twos training and fast and slow fleet starts.

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Yes please to a copy - I'm about to upgrade Microclipper. Thanx.

paul.turner@lingphipp.co.uk

Congratulations and thanks to Nick and Charles and everyone else involved with the running of the Frensham Open meeting - well done , it was a grand "do".

David Croft wentfaster than a Rocket, beat all the Merlins etc on the water, and was first overall with Brain Kitching 2nd - Brain also won the concours d'elegance for his restoration job on "Just Lucky"

And where were we? Don't ask! But it was a very pleasant day's yotting even if there was sxd all wind!


ps I need some new sails, Kevan!

Not quite! My first China Doll N2524 was called "Ethelred" and rapidly nicknamed "the unsteady", my Athermath 2 N2808 (being painted a certain colour) was refered to as the "Yellow Submarine" and so "they" finally settled on the "Kapsize King" for me.

I always go swimming when it's windy!