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26-08-2005, 12:27 AM
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Location: Great Horwood
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Adam is the last of the ‘Old School racers’.
A nicer guy you couldn’t meet in the race pits, or in the bar for that matter.
My mother still tells me stories about him in 1981, when he was peering around and checking out the latest boats, and then going out racing.
He went on……………..
In 2005 he is still doing ‘the stuff’.
Any chance of a ‘Boatmad Oscar’ for Mr Younger?
Because in my ‘Offshore’ estimation, he is the ‘Reindeers Testicles’
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26-08-2005, 11:07 AM
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Senior Member
Country: UK
Location: Christchurch, Dorset
Occupation: Marine Engineer-ish
Interests: Boats, Cars.
Boat name: Splash 4
Boat make: Hunton
Engines: Mercruiser 640
Cruising area: Poole, Solent
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Christchurch, Dorset
Posts: 599
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Oregrund
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Originally posted by verytricky
I have raced in Oregrund.
And the Swedish driver ( part of the V24 group ) said it was quite rough near the lighthouse! It was flat calm everywhere, and near the lighthouse it was much like the Solent on a good flat day!
There are pictures around someplace of us going round the lighthouse.
Personally I much prefer racing in Sweden and Norway! Two foot of bump, changing to 3 foot of bump with whitecaps. Tiny swells with a steady direction.
At Ramsgate we had 2 meter swells, where you could not see anyone or anything for half the time, and spent 60% of the time midair waiting to hurt yourself on the way down.... I love Ramsgate - but that is due to the organisation and facilities - not because of the sea!
Sweden was realy cool!
Anyone going to race there will be astounded! Interested spectators go to race control a few days before to get the race route. They then plan their position to watch the race, based on where they think the best action will be. You can actually run the race without a navigator due to the race course being mapped out by the respectful locals, who anchor about 100 meters off the race line in all directions, leaving a clear path showing the route!
For me - a complete beginner - ( Sweden was my 5th race ever ) it was just beyond words. Thousands of people on the shore line, hundreds and hundreds of boats moored supporting you was just *wow*.
Really a great place to race!
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26-08-2005, 11:07 AM
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Senior Member
Country: UK
Location: Christchurch, Dorset
Occupation: Marine Engineer-ish
Interests: Boats, Cars.
Boat name: Splash 4
Boat make: Hunton
Engines: Mercruiser 640
Cruising area: Poole, Solent
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Christchurch, Dorset
Posts: 599
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Oregrund
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Originally posted by verytricky
I have raced in Oregrund.
And the Swedish driver ( part of the V24 group ) said it was quite rough near the lighthouse! It was flat calm everywhere, and near the lighthouse it was much like the Solent on a good flat day!
There are pictures around someplace of us going round the lighthouse.
Personally I much prefer racing in Sweden and Norway! Two foot of bump, changing to 3 foot of bump with whitecaps. Tiny swells with a steady direction.
At Ramsgate we had 2 meter swells, where you could not see anyone or anything for half the time, and spent 60% of the time midair waiting to hurt yourself on the way down.... I love Ramsgate - but that is due to the organisation and facilities - not because of the sea!
Sweden was realy cool!
Anyone going to race there will be astounded! Interested spectators go to race control a few days before to get the race route. They then plan their position to watch the race, based on where they think the best action will be. You can actually run the race without a navigator due to the race course being mapped out by the respectful locals, who anchor about 100 meters off the race line in all directions, leaving a clear path showing the route!
For me - a complete beginner - ( Sweden was my 5th race ever ) it was just beyond words. Thousands of people on the shore line, hundreds and hundreds of boats moored supporting you was just *wow*.
Really a great place to race!
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26-08-2005, 11:13 AM
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#24
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Senior Member
Country: UK
Location: Christchurch, Dorset
Occupation: Marine Engineer-ish
Interests: Boats, Cars.
Boat name: Splash 4
Boat make: Hunton
Engines: Mercruiser 640
Cruising area: Poole, Solent
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Christchurch, Dorset
Posts: 599
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Oregrund
[QUOTE]Originally posted by verytricky
[B]I have raced in Oregrund.
And the Swedish driver ( part of the V24 group ) said it was quite rough near the lighthouse! It was flat calm everywhere, and near the lighthouse it was much like the Solent on a good flat day!
I have raced in Oregrund too, in 1987/ 88/ 91 I think it was. every time we went up to the lighthouse, (Argasund?) just off the Foresmark powerstation it was as rough as you like. In 1987 the head sea was so big that loads of rivets popped out of the deck and hit us in the face then we barrell rolled Babycresci at about 80ish there with no one in site, Per Benson was the navigator, we got on the upturned hull that then sank without a trace and we were left treading water. No flares nothing. Only to be rescued by Tony Gumbiner in his big Italian mono who took us back to Oregrund with hypathermia. Divers found the boat two days later, brought it up and we re-rigged it for the Needles race in Poole where Didier Peroni sadly bought it.
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26-08-2005, 12:11 PM
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Traveling
Country: UK
Location: Alderholt
Occupation: Aerospace
Boat name: T/T D2S
Boat make: Midas 27' Cat, Argo 16 Cat. Avon Rib Thingy
Engines: Merc 280-ROS -JSRE,65Xs, 75 Stinger, Yam 60
Cruising area: Any Seedy Bar
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Alderholt
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Re: Oregrund
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Originally posted by pennpromo
rivets popped out of the deck and hit us in the face [/B]
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There ya go................ should have been Hi-locks
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27-08-2005, 09:40 PM
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#26
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Registered User
Country: England
Location: Kent
Occupation: Train Engineer
Interests: Refit/Re-engine Woody's P18 and helping with D2S.
Boat name: Fugazi II / D2S
Boat make: Phantom 18 / Planatec 41'
Engines: 1xMercury XR2 / 2x 8.1ltr Chevys
Cruising area: Kent/Hampshire/Dorset Coasts
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Kent
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A lot of the comments made in these threads were argued out in the mid to late 80's in OCR. I remember a race deck P16 passing scutineering because he managed to squeeze two more people into the boat. The rules at the time were something like "production boat able to seat at least 4 persons".
By the way it wasn't me!!!!!!
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29-08-2005, 09:29 PM
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numbskull
Country: United Kingdom
Location: South
Occupation: none
Interests: none
Boat name: Leviathan
Boat make: Phantom 28
Cruising area: South Coast
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: South
Posts: 15,959
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Re: Re: Oregrund
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Originally posted by BluFin
There ya go................ should have been Hi-locks
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Hi-Locks!
that brings back memories!
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30-08-2005, 08:36 AM
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#28
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Senior Member
Country: England
Location: Warsash
Occupation: Boat Designer
Interests: sport
Boat name: Santana
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Warsash
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Quote:
Originally posted by Ciao
Adam is the last of the ‘Old School racers’.
A nicer guy you couldn’t meet in the race pits, or in the bar for that matter.
My mother still tells me stories about him in 1981, when he was peering around and checking out the latest boats, and then going out racing.
He went on……………..
In 2005 he is still doing ‘the stuff’.
Any chance of a ‘Boatmad Oscar’ for Mr Younger?
Because in my ‘Offshore’ estimation, he is the ‘Reindeers Testicles’
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Many thanks for saying so - always nice to be appreciated!
Been a long time racing now and getting pretty tired of it all - especially the politics and being messed around by organisers.
Talking of Cowes - realised this weekend it was my 25th anniversary since winning my first race! That was a bit frightening! 1980 3C in a Stapley cat when I was only 16!
Problem is I still love my racing and enjoy the great amount of people I have met along the way. Also at last getting closer to getting my rather troublesome boat sorted out as well. Just running out of time and money to race.
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