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  • Photos of Dad’s Boat ‘The Toad’

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    While I have put a number of photos of rebuilding and repairing Dad’s boat, I haven’t put any photos up of the finished boat. Unfortunately it would probably have been better to take these photos before breaking the mast and punching a hole in the deck. I took a liberty with name of the boat.…

  • M&M Store

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      In the middle of Times Square is the M&M store. This is the ultimate example of the power of branding. The store has 3 floors of M&M merchandise and  of course some M&Ms.        What merchandise you ask? Well anything is possible:         Of course it wouldn’t be the M&M store…

  • Putting the toad back together

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    After the trouble on the 25th, ‘The Toad’ needed to be put back together again. Of course the obvious initial solution would be to stick a piece of tape over the hole and keep sailing. However that solution would persist for some time until the boat was brought home. Seeing I needed the trailer to…

  • Sailing on the 25th of April

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    Saturday’s sailing was quite windy. I figured that it was going to be a great day to shake the last of the troubles out of the boat. With the help of Gary Todd I got the rudder pintels back on tight, after they had been working loose against a misaligned support at the back of…

  • Supersprint Otway Ride

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    On Saturday the 28th I wasn’t sailing as there were some cars driving around the lake. It transpires that I the Supersprint Otway & Ocean ride was this weekend. It was a very early start, with me needing to get down to Torquay by 7:00AM. I left home just after 5:00AM, and had a pretty…

  • Racing on the 21st of March

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    This is the first strong northerly we have had at the lake for some time, and it is the second time I have had a good long sail in the boat in decent breeze. In essence it was a good shakedown of the boat. First up a few things structurally need work: 1) The bolts…

  • Racing on the 14th of March

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    A very wild day with the wind. We started with a north easterly breeze. For the first 45 minutes we were sailing in extremely light, flukey winds everything less than 5 knots. After that a number of storm clouds rolled in, shifting the breeze to the west and bringing an average 10 knot breeze with…

  • Racing on the 7th of March

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    Boat setup on the Impulse is going well. Probably the only thing left to do is replace the hiking straps. Will look at ordering Zhik straps in the next couple of weeks. Area that needs the greatest work is my tacking. It is interfering with my upwind boat tactics. The focus on the technical aspects…

  • Racing on the 21st of February

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    First day out in the Impulse. It was blowing quite strongly and it was going to be a good test of the boat.  The start was fairly good, starting a few slots down from the committee boat end with a little speed and was with the front of the fleet for the first couple of…

  • GPS Log of Feb 14th

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    Here is the GPS log of the racing on Feb 14th. I have used everytrail.com to show the details. The full trip details are available on the Every Trail website.  14th of Feb Race Widget powered by EveryTrail: GPS Geotagging