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KPPC Pictures 2018
I have posted pictures of the first few competitions in the 2018 season which include Nico taking a tumble on 20 May. Check out the galleries.
RYA PNs 2018
To find what has happened to the RYA PN for your class since 2003 check out this cool spreadsheet. Just click on the class name and you should be able to change it. Click on this link for the spreadsheet.
You can also see comparisons between classes if you click here.
WOSC 8 Hour Race 2017
The WOSC annual 8 Hour Race took place on Sunday 27th September. For those members who have not competed in the race or not spectated, I will attempt to give you a flavour of what you have missed. Read about it here.
Les and Graham win!
14:56:17 on Sunday 25 May 2014 was the time at which Les and Graham finished the second race of the day. To the great surprise, nay amazement, of many it was in fact the winning time. After the RO had checked, rechecked and checked his calculations once again it was announced that Les and Graham were indeed the winners of the race. In fact the RO spent so much time performing his calculations that the last race was started late. Read about it here.
Alexander and the Handbrake
See Alexander's great starts and the magnificent Wayfarer Handbrake demonstrated by Les and Graham. Read about it here.
Shock! Horror! Wayfarer using tired old rags beats Albacore with brand new sails (made by dyslexic sailmaker) on the water
On Sunday Richard and Tom stormed round the lake proving that "Flat is Fast".
Unique homework resource
A correspondent has written to inform me that this humble website is proving to be an invaluable resource for school homework in numerous subjects.
Read more...Les and Graham unable to sail
Les and Graham were unable to sail on 30 September, which was a beautiful day.
Les was nursing a nasty face wound received at Stockport when he was bitten by an angry dog. Graham says there are a lot of dogs in Stockport.
Graham, on the other hand had problems with his plumbing. Les reckons it's Graham's age!
Check out latest pictures
Check out the latest pictures which include: OK Worlds in Denmark, WOSC 8 Hour Race and Sunday 29 July when Les and Graham flew the flag (and the Police turned up).
For future reference Les, as any vexillologist will tell you, the easy way to know if the Union Flag is the correct way up is to look for the fimbriation of the ordinaries. If the fimbriation is below the saltire in the upper hoist canton, then the flag is being flown correctly.
10 November - A Beautiful Autumn Day
10th November was an abolutely beautiful crisp, sunny Autumn day. As usual at WOSC there were a couple of notable events. This week there was one on the water and one off the water.
Richard and family turned up to do bar duty. As soon as they arrived, they decided to set a crayfish trap in order that they could have some crustacean delicacies for dinner. Richard grasped the tether, and with an enormous heave, launched the trap into the lake. Unfortunately it has been some time since Richard was a Boy Scout and he was left holding the string, while the trap plopped into the lake, completely untethered. As Richard did, we will come back to that later.
The other event was the launching of Les' new Wayfarer, complete with outboard bracket, cruising sails and beautiful, if enormous bow fairleads.
The first race showed that Les and Graham had good speed away from the line, but they were quickly overhauled by Sue and Bettiane (Can someone please tell me whether this is how to spell her name? I got the spelling from the race results, but I'll bet that it should be Bettina), Steve and Carol, and threatened by George and Lucia. Not the best start, I think that you would agree.
The second race was a bit of a disaster for our intrepid duo. Trying to be up there at the start, they realised they were early and turned to try a port tack start. In doing so the impeded Sue who insisted that Les and Graham do penalty turns. Les did a full turn, and thinking that this was enough, set off after the rest of the fleet. The remainder of the race saw no significant improvement and it was no surprise to many that our intrepid duo retired.
Those of you who have read this far may be wondering what happened to Richard and his crayfish trap. After serving a couple of J2Os and one beer, which was in fact bought by Richard's wife, they returned to the car park to look for the trap. At this point Richard made sure that I knew that he bought the beer which his wife drank.
Nevertheless the crayfish trap required to be retrieved.
Richard manfully stripped to his rather fetching and fashionable, purple with white polka dots underwear and strode into the lake to retrieve the trap.
The trap duly recovered, Richard shouted that he had caught a fish. Removing something from the trap, it proved to be a sea bass in a plastic bag, which had recently been removed from the freezer, as it was still rock solid. Well, at least it can go back into the freezer to be used again.
Once Richard had dressed we conducted a short knot tying lesson. That is, a short lesson on tying knots, rather than a lesson on how to tie short knots!
I hope that you like the pictures.
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