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Boxed In

All packed and ready to go.

Sunday’s Mothing ended up being a bit of a non-event, with my nice Zhik gear held up in Hong Kong, and little wind, rain and a lack of sleep all adding to not much really. My testing of new wand gear meant I bounced around with way too much lift, and with my carbon work – which would make Doink proud – pushed and nice amount of wash over the trailing foils. Beautiful.

Even less wind on Monday meant John, Ben and myself spent the day disassembling our boats and packing into the respective boxes with copious amounts of foam and bubble wrap.

I hope they make it all the way to WPNSA with no damage. The boats look a hell of a lot more confortable in their wooden crates than the soggy cardboard shitters we used last year. They should be fine.

Our little bulk airway bill contains 4 hulls, some 14 masts, 11 sails and plenty of other stuff. Except John’s main hydrofoil, which has found a new home on the bottom of the harbour… unfortunately he was still very fast with the banged-up substitute on Sunday. Anyway.

Now who’s boat can I borrow for the next couple of weekends…

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6 Responses to “Boxed In”

  1. chris Says:
    June 10th, 2008 at 8:59 pm

    wait till you see my fantastic carbon repair, when you get to weymouth look onto the harbour for white boat with shocking patch job on the front, also shall most likely be in a capsize position.

  2. Alan Says:
    June 11th, 2008 at 6:54 am

    You could have used my boat if I hadn’t packed it up and left it in storage on saturday night.

    oh well, too bad.

  3. Diver Dan Says:
    June 11th, 2008 at 10:09 am

    You can join me in a “boat race” or two.

  4. Les Says:
    June 11th, 2008 at 12:16 pm

    Mate, I’d offer Sector to you but she’s out of action and in need of repair. Rare for her I know. Broken pushrod on Saturday. In true form she did attempt to “auto repair” – the broken pushrod wedged itself into the flap again and it worked kinda OK. Not good enough for someone training for the Worlds though.

    Let me know if you are actually keen to borrow my boat though. That might motivate me enough to get off my a*se and fix it.

    Les

  5. rollo Says:
    June 15th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

    What date are you in weymouth?

  6. scott Says:
    June 15th, 2008 at 8:59 pm

    29th June til 12th July

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