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    BJ Tyres weekend away

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    Costra Nostra..

     

    Imagine wont be there Sat  alas.. But will motor down Sunday morning do do the race back..  There seem to be varying times for the start, but im figuring if im there at 0930 i should be good.

     

    Have fun on the beach all, especially my competitors in no extras - drink up boys and girls !

     

    Anyone else just going down sunday to do race back ?

    Single handed sailing

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    Great weekend on and off water with the SOLO IQ series !

     

    Fun sailing, and few bumps and bruises and a great venue last night.

     

    Grant - thanks to you and Thursday  - great work on getting results up too !

     

    Imagine RAF race one as went round tiri outer to port - was in SAANZ mode - but course was to Stb.. 

    Single handed sailing

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    I launched a (yellow) buoy with Jim Dilley, former harbour master 6-7  years ago. The shipping channel buoys are actually higher tech than you think. we went for an up close look at a couple. They also have some GPS system that  ensures that the lights flash like a runway and lots of other interesting stuff for shipping. They are not just buoys in conventional sense. At that time there were only 4 other ports in the world with this level of tech. Downside was each buoy was circa $100k then. Yes really. He didn't strike me as telling pokies.

     

    I have seen boats trying to lasso red and green shipping buoys ,people trying to climb onto one, and general hanging off them.

     

    Even if we don't hit one, if it does or has recently sustained damage from other parties, the site of 20 boats racing around one is likely to put us at the scene of the crime. We don't need that attention nor do we want to be a "possible" culprit. Single handed racing may a be a bit at the fringe as it is, so lets not given any party any ammo to decry us. ("out of control at the mark!")

     

    Also I'm not foolproof, mistakes do happen but i'd rather hit a cheap yellow one than a pricey red or green one. Sailing is about risk management, single handed sailing more so, lets have the courses echo this. Both reducing reputational risk, as well as actual damage if someone does hit it.

     

    The yellow buoys were set up as "special purpose" buoys - in our parlance, racing buoys. All the other clubs use them, and as we are  a bit of a "travelling circus" it makes sense for us too, to follow this lead - we don't need to be "different" especially given the proximity of a couple of yellows to the shipping buoy in question.

     

    I have had a look at the port shipping movements, as far as  I can see, traversing the shipping channel a couple of times should nt see us dodging ships.

     

    Like Wild, I will sail where told, but think this debate a good one to have , and thanks to the sponsors and people like Richard (Cool Change) for mucking in here and the Solo IQ website !

    Single handed sailing

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    Yeah, the competitor profiles are a good idea and generate some interest. I'm surprised that Andrew has a  gimp room in the bow of his boat. 

     

    Also looking at Ray on Scarlet Fever, I was nt aware he was a double amputee.

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