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Doing a RYA level 1 and 2 course, we're in Falmouth reminding ourselves how to sail a dinghy. Did similar in 1992 when we lived in Plymouth, but never took it further. Have got soaked every day so far, not from capsizing I would add http://www.675.cc/675/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif Went and bought wetsuits as we were fed up of sitting in wet clothes, Gul £140 - no thanks - £35 for an OK one in Trago Mills (south-westerners on here will know it). Mind, when you're sailing close hauled (ie close to the wind) and it gets squally, the boat races along and it's great fun as it tips up and you have to sit on the edge and lean out to balance it and stop it going over, but even so the water tips in over the other side http://www.675.cc/675/images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif http://www.675.cc/675/images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif http://www.675.cc/675/images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif So who cares about rain and getting wet http://www.675.cc/675/images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif http://www.675.cc/675/images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif http://www.675.cc/675/images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif http://www.675.cc/675/images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif http://www.675.cc/675/images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif I want a trapeze but the Bosun we're sailing doesn't have one:(:(:(

We've done a lot of tacking and gybing, did man overboard and tying up alongside another boat today. With a bit of luck, tomoz we'll be let loose without the instructor in the boat and we can get out further into the harbour, and Friday maybe even across to St Mawes, depends on how strong the wind is, we had up to Force 5 today which made life interesting http://www.675.cc/675/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif

Such terrific fun http://www.675.cc/675/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif http://www.675.cc/675/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif http://www.675.cc/675/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif http://www.675.cc/675/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif http://www.675.cc/675/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif http://www.675.cc/675/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif

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i did that same coarse (not in Falmouth) a few years, was a great laugh tacking up and down the solent. Been thinking about getting a little dingy for a while but i dont even know if i could do it anymore, i cant remember how to set up the main sail let along the head sail.

have you been hit by the boom yet? :lol: :oops:

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Trago's - Legendary! I don't think I have ever walked in there and come out empty handed :cool:

I did my RYA 1 aaaages ago when I was younger and before I started spending pennies on 2 wheeled wonders! Been meaning to do a refresher here in Wellington, but given the wind we get, dinghy sailing is a bit of an extreme sport 90% of the time! :lol:

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Ah yes, the joys of Trago's "smaller in-town store"

Winds up a bit today - should be fun

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Trago Mills one of the best shops in the UK

I still have tools I bought there in 1986

I was in Falmouth at the end of March, its a lovely place. Bet the weathers not to good today Ed, although it'll be sheltered in the Fal

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Ed ,

when exactly DID you win the lottery ?

its not been on the news?

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No he's snaffled some old dears pension fund ;)

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Stopping with 85yo MIL:D:D:D:D

Course wasn't pricey and neither was the Alps trip. I will be able to explain it all a bit more fully soon....

Wind today was fantastic until about 3pm when it got stronger and gusty, we were sailing figures of 8 around the steel piles for the new pontoon that they are about to add at Port Pendennis Marina, and also a triangular course around some buoys that the instructor dropped in the water, so a tack, then a change of direction, then a gybe. It was huge fun, got soaked as every day:cool::cool::cool:

There were a pile of folks on Custom House Quay waiting for the St Mawes ferry, all watching us, and two of them decided that we were having such huge fun (could probably hear all the squawking and laughing on the boat) that they went down to the the office and signed up for a course:D

Tomoz we have to do a capsize (so as to learn how to recover it) - which will mean going further out to the outer harbour as there's too much traffic in the inner harbour. Then we do what we like, so perhaps we will get to St Mawes:D

Next, I got to learn how to sea fish as then I can catch my dinner:smt046

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Piece of cake Ed, Trago Mills, cheapo rod and reel and a set of mackerel feathers, jig em up and down, tea in 5 mins, Hugh Fearnley style.

Watch out for the sharks, they did tell you about the sharks didn't they :confused:

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Why not buy a harpoon gun instead, i hear shark steak is very tasty, so learn to capsize and shoot your tea in one easy lesson. easy peasy :D

Daryl.