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by Michael Brigg
Thu Aug 17, 2017 7:07 pm
Forum: Events
Topic: Clywedog Nationals 2017
Replies: 19
Views: 18991

Re: Clywedog Nationals 2017

Very excitedly getting ready for the Canoe worlds in Pwllheli. The weather forcast seems to be getting more and more scary with a promise of mountainous waves if the expected SSW gale blows in on Sunday :? I hope to be in Clywedog with Ed on the Saturday assuming we haven't been engulfed. Results I ...
by Michael Brigg
Wed Aug 16, 2017 11:51 pm
Forum: Boats and bits for sale
Topic: Nice Canoe for the Classic Circuit.
Replies: 4
Views: 6423

Nice Canoe for the Classic Circuit.

Did you bid and lose on an EISCA boat? Sill got an itch on the "buy it now" button? This might be a consolation prize if you are a Single sailor. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/INTERNATIONAL-CANOE-SAILING-DINGHY/232442402037?hash=item361ea594f5%3Ag%3ArgkAAOSwGrFZiIo4 Bucket list wish fulfillmen...
by Michael Brigg
Thu Aug 03, 2017 8:23 pm
Forum: Events
Topic: Bosham Classics Revival 2017
Replies: 2
Views: 6710

Bosham Classics Revival 2017

A great end of season event! Hi Michael, Heads up... 30 days to go until the 2017 Classic Boat Revival, on the weekend of 2nd & 3rd September.... The format is much the same as recent years, as we aim to do 5 races over the 2 days with socials on Friday and Saturday evenings. To see what you mis...
by Michael Brigg
Fri Jul 14, 2017 8:25 am
Forum: Events
Topic: Roadford July 2017
Replies: 25
Views: 23197

Re: Roadford July 2017

I'll make a late journey down Friday Night or V. Early Saturday. What time first race?

Wind forecast looks OK for Torment :lol:

Is there room in the field for a small tent?
by Michael Brigg
Fri Jul 07, 2017 8:32 pm
Forum: Boat Identification and Dinghy History
Topic: Sail logo to identify
Replies: 9
Views: 9246

Re: Sail logo to identify

Cardinal? Is there such a thing?

Actually I took another look and thought "Showercap." The bit underneath is meant to be a £5 note (1/2 of...)
by Michael Brigg
Mon Jul 03, 2017 8:43 pm
Forum: Boat maintenance, repair and restoration
Topic: Hull paint
Replies: 18
Views: 17473

Re: Hull paint

As I recall a lot of this started out (I suspect as a marketing ploy) with a paint finish known as "Graphspeed." Filthy stuff. If you brushed against the hull in your best white ducks you had a stain the size of Russia on them. We had a guy in the club who put it on his Firefly. Quite cool...
by Michael Brigg
Mon Jun 26, 2017 12:55 am
Forum: Banter
Topic: Blue sky thinking or Dark and Stormy days ahead?
Replies: 34
Views: 47211

Re: Blue sky thinking or Dark and Stormy days ahead?

As the starter of this thread I feel little responsible for the heat of debate that has ensued and I am a little surprised at the depth of feeling it has stirred up. I can only assume that the sight of all that Americas Cup publicity and drama on u-tube has left us all feeling little threatened but ...
by Michael Brigg
Sat Jun 10, 2017 1:34 am
Forum: Banter
Topic: CVMRA....
Replies: 1
Views: 9990

CVMRA....

Classic and vintage Music Recording Arena Old style vinyl recordings and why the "single" was 3minutes long. If you love simply seeing how elegant the recording of music was back in the day, this would be all your favourite head phone music. A perfect sound track to ccompany those winter d...
by Michael Brigg
Wed Jun 07, 2017 7:33 pm
Forum: Banter
Topic: Blue sky thinking or Dark and Stormy days ahead?
Replies: 34
Views: 47211

Blue sky thinking or Dark and Stormy days ahead?

Call me a luddite, but for me it's rather depressing...

http://www.sailingworld.com/future-foiling
by Michael Brigg
Mon Jun 05, 2017 7:29 pm
Forum: Boat Chat
Topic: Mounting an effective campaign
Replies: 11
Views: 11555

Re: Mounting an effective campaign

Easiest and unlikely to crack, vinyl wrap, easy to apply and with application of heat will follow complex shapes. Now that does take me back to my rowing days. It was 1976 and GB after a period of time in the rowing doldrums had finally won a silver medal, rowing the prototype Carbon fibre reinforc...
by Michael Brigg
Sat Jun 03, 2017 10:30 am
Forum: Boat Chat
Topic: Mounting an effective campaign
Replies: 11
Views: 11555

Mounting an effective campaign

Unlike Landrover BAR my own (Honda Jazz BORE) does not have Squillions to keep it afloat. I introduce to you "Moonshadow" IC10 K203 :D :D :D Brigg's Other (Really?...) Extravagance, (BORE) is now hiding in the Dinghy prk waiting to be "Introduced" to SWIMBO. This will be a carefu...
by Michael Brigg
Thu Jun 01, 2017 9:23 am
Forum: Boats and bits for sale
Topic: Firefly restoration and Bits
Replies: 3
Views: 6490

Re: Firefly restoration and Bits

- Hull now gone. The other bits are still available but unfortunately going to tip soon. thanks Please don't dump those (irreplaceable) bronze bits! :shock: :( Please list then and put them on here or on the firefly site. I will give you a ring/PM about this. I am quite keen to establish a NFA rese...
by Michael Brigg
Sun May 28, 2017 1:38 am
Forum: Boats and bits for sale
Topic: PHOTON TWIN TRAPEZE SKIFF
Replies: 6
Views: 8363

Re: PHOTON TWIN TRAPEZE SKIFF

Interestingly I googled 'Photon Skiff' and got the following: The photon-skiff: is a very light keel with lugs to hook spacesuits to; has a mile-long steel cable kept at right angles to the keel by a small inertia-controlled atomic reactor at the far end; on the cable, a mile-square zirconium foil ...
by Michael Brigg
Thu May 04, 2017 6:58 pm
Forum: Events
Topic: Picnic race
Replies: 19
Views: 21944

Re: Picnic race

So... getting under that bridge. https://www.facebook.com/PowerboatNation/videos/1285330551497207/ Tis a brilliant piece of boatmanship.....and I have often enjoyed watching it, but I am still a bit confused as to how it is done. OK the water ballast pulls over the masts, but how is the lean initial...
by Michael Brigg
Tue May 02, 2017 11:01 am
Forum: Boat Chat
Topic: ISOs etc
Replies: 8
Views: 9504

Re: ISOs etc

In Harry Potter speak, I would venture that "the wand chooses the wizard." The same applies to some extent to your boat. Perhaps you have still got (or acquired) the boat you sailed (or aspired to) as a boy. Perhaps you have inherited an old family favourite. If none of these, then your ch...