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Cowes Week Carnage, day 5
August 10, 2011
Yesterday evening we were invited for a BBQ at the Goslings. A great evening with great people, despite Floris falling asleep halfway the evening and into his dessert. Pier View ended the evening after Boj stayed to turn off the lights and lock up the place after everybody left. We woke up with 23 knots […]
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Cowes Week Day 2; A donkey does not bump into the same stone twice…
August 1, 2010
Though we did! Yesterday our engine decided to quit, so we had to be towed in by Luna, our own rib. She towed us out again today. We had a nice kite ride down to Browndown, where we started the race. Our start was quite well. All the way to the boat end we stayed […]
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Cowes Week day 3
August 13, 2012
Today we had an interesting start, a close reach with the spinnaker until the first mark. The usual suspects were around us: Fever, Yes!, Mongoose in front and Brightwork riding our sternwave. After the first rounding we had a beat up to the island. In hindsight we chose the wrong side of the course, loosing […]
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