Right so this journal has been of late deader than.... ermm well a small mouse in a concrete mixer.

Fastnet race: A bit of a damp squib really. we lasted less than 24 hours before the frankly terrible weather and unpredictable seas forced us to drop the sails and motor for Plymouth.
The storm on Monday night included:

• our mainsail breaking a ( Read more... )

More sailing this weekend, The Myth of Malham race. Fancy name for 'racing to France'. We are off to St. Quay Portrieux on the Brittany coast.Course will look a bit like this:


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Upon the Saturday morn we did slip our morin lines and make sail upon the Solent water. There we did sight the first RORC fleet o'the year and fine sight it were, arr ( Read more... )

right then, this weekend I am off to ply the rolling main fer treasure and bounty.. well not really
I am however off to sail in the Cervantes trophy.

We are taking our j/109 'Alice' from the Solent out in to the channel and racing a bunch of other yachts to Le Havre like this:

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Tonight I am bored.
so apart from watchin crap on telly i've been cleaning out my computer (oooOOOooo)
done a few searches for files to remove duplicates etc. *.txt brings back quite a bit but there are two that stood out.
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You've heard of Chuck norris Facts, you might even have heard of Vin Diesel facts.

They however have nothing on this guy thus was brought in to existance:

RayMearsFacts.com

Whatever you actually believe about the nature of god, or not or whoever, watch the first clip in this post and join me in agreeing that some Americans should not be allowed an opinion on anything . Ever.

The second video is actually quite interesting.

nicked off the rss feed of richarddawkins.net

Steam Punk Lightsabre!
and
steam punk Starwars drawings

coooooool.

"no dear, it would eat the dog"

Watch the video and the tell me you don't want one.

nicked off jwz

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