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Will_Lee
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« on: June 14, 2011, 10:32:59 pm »
This is a video which absolutely everyone should see.

http://boingboing.net/2010/11/05/hold-fast-a-document.html

(Some impecunious anarchists blag their way to sailing offshore - It is liquid gold)

An anarchist friend got the DVD for me from the Anarchist Book Fair a couple of years ago, but now it is on the internet!
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« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2011, 11:06:42 pm »
That's tonight entertainment sorted!
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2675 Fuzzy Logic  97/05 rules

Serious plannage in the works...
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« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2011, 12:44:03 pm »
copy that. sounds intreguing.

Can't be too much worse than a group of civil servants getting involved in offshore racing.

Last week I took part in the annual Civil service regatta which uses the sun sail boats from port Solent.

One other boat gybed round the Nab tower.  It was close enough that it went into the lee of the tower and broached hitting the tower head on at about 4-5 knots.

Damage deposit lost. 

To re-assure others the bat I was on didn't break anything appart from a bowl and a glass which fell out of the cupboard when the catch sprung open. (design defect on the boats.
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« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2011, 03:24:10 pm »
Ooops! Lucy and I did the forts race from Stokes a few years ago in Norwegian Blue. Those forts are very nasty up close.
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« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2011, 04:46:38 pm »
Phil, was that IDOR? I was supposed to be there but couldn't get the leave.
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« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2011, 08:49:36 pm »
Quote from: phil_kirk on June 15, 2011, 12:44:03 pm

To re-assure others the bat I was on didn't break anything appart from a bowl and a glass which fell out of the cupboard when the catch sprung open. (design defect on the boats.

One bowl and a glass sounds like you got off lightly compared to others when we sailed them in march. A LOT of crockery lost that week...
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« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2011, 11:51:37 am »
Quote from: phil_kirk on June 15, 2011, 12:44:03 pm
To re-assure others the bat I was on didn't break anything appart from a bowl and a glass which fell out of the cupboard when the catch sprung open. (design defect on the boats.

Is this a new sport of bat riding?  I'm not suprised the other bat hit the Nab as presumably you can only ride them in the dark?  Perhaps their innate radar was broken.
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« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2011, 01:26:02 pm »
Quote from: Ben Howett on June 16, 2011, 08:49:36 pm
Quote from: phil_kirk on June 15, 2011, 12:44:03 pm

To re-assure others the bat I was on didn't break anything appart from a bowl and a glass which fell out of the cupboard when the catch sprung open. (design defect on the boats.

One bowl and a glass sounds like you got off lightly compared to others when we sailed them in march. A LOT of crockery lost that week...

I wonder if this is a feature rather than a bug in the boat design. Every week a £20 of crockery gets broken and every week people loose £40 from their damage deposits?
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« Reply #8 on: June 17, 2011, 01:47:47 pm »
Audacious and devious! Readily believable only the level of skill required to pull of such a feat I think makes it implausible. However I do understand the urge to fix such a problem might be minimal because of the situation you mention!
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