ishtar
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Post by ishtar on Mar 25, 2012 20:16:49 GMT
A really enjoyable couple of days. 16 boats from Cardiff Yacht club made the trip as part of of first organised cruise of the season. Friday night, pontoons:  A good night in the bar, with the crews assembling for the trip. Can't remember the latter part of the evening. There was general agreement that we#d leave around 13:00, or 13:30, or something. Vince remembered that he'd forgotten to launch his boat, but soon fixed that. As the time aproached, we started to head for the locks. Artetta (apologies for the spelling!)  The inshore waters forecast was 4-5, occ 6 in the West. It wasn't quite that......  |
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Post by ishtar on Mar 25, 2012 20:19:23 GMT
Fred and Runagane, arriving in a packed lock, with Dove and Ardua already in.   Paschall was determined to try out the 'Blue bear experience', aboard Sui.  He checked his position on the GPS and, horror of horrors, 5 whole minutes later he was in exactly the same place. In that time he had searched his boat for the missing third packet of fig rolls, and, in fact, arrived in Portishead with only a single biscuit left. A close call! Anchored ships:  |
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Post by ishtar on Mar 25, 2012 20:23:06 GMT
High Spirits, battling the fierce winds:  Sea Symphony, doing likewise:  |
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Post by ishtar on Mar 25, 2012 20:26:20 GMT
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Post by ishtar on Mar 25, 2012 20:31:36 GMT
I think it took four locks to get us all in, including Portishead's own vessels:  Some went to the pub for food, and some ate aboard and then went to the pub. We joined Sheila and Vince aboard Volition, where Delia Parker Brown had cooked this beauty:  It was great, as was seeing so many CYC members enjoying a drink at the pub later. |
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ishtar
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Post by ishtar on Mar 25, 2012 20:34:57 GMT
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Post by ishtar on Mar 25, 2012 20:37:49 GMT
As we waited our turn in the 10:30 lock, packing it once again...  Some itinerant types were trying to hawk cheap goods, no doubt stragglers from the nearby boat jumble:  |
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Post by ishtar on Mar 25, 2012 20:40:41 GMT
We had a lovely sail back, all the colours flying in the spring sunshine: Mirage:  Ardua:  Sui and Dove:  Dove, Volition, Ardua, Sui:     |
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ishtar
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Post by ishtar on Mar 25, 2012 20:42:39 GMT
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Post by ishtar on Mar 25, 2012 20:43:54 GMT
It's not all about the sailing, of course. For some, it's about the camaraderie, and for others, the Belgian chocolate cookies:  Great fun. Hope everyone had as much fun as we did. If you missed it, see you next time. |
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Post by sheila on Mar 26, 2012 11:04:03 GMT
Some more photos Ishtar motors past the obstruction in the water!  Where it looked like Chausey was reversing in to it!  As we were coming round the front of the ships, it really looked at if Chausey was going backwards. On the way back, at first Ishtar wa ahead of us  but then we overtook them!  |
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Post by Cardiff Yacht Club on Mar 26, 2012 13:16:29 GMT
THanks for that Sheila. At last we have some pics of Ishtar sailing!
By the way, if anyone wants to have the priginal picture of their boat (they are 4 times larger), please send me a personal message with your email address and I'll do it. Please don't post your email address here - in case the spammers get hold of it.
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Post by duncanhall on Mar 27, 2012 18:54:57 GMT
Clearly an excellent sail back here's a reasonable shot of volition as they passed us in Ardua  Although we did waste an awful amount of time trying in vain to erect a spinica before the wind changed direction. Oh well perhaps we will get a change to use it one day. |
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Post by Martyn & Sarah on Mar 27, 2012 19:20:46 GMT
Fantastic weekend. weather,company and the pics awesome
tilly
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Post by keith on Mar 27, 2012 21:04:16 GMT
Exellent weekend for Arrietta and myself, first proper sail, first time throught the locks and into the Bristol channel. First night sleeping onboard in foreign country, all thanks to my crew, (some who don't understand the concept of queing at locks) and all the people at CYC who have helped me during my early days and made me feel part of the club.
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Post by Romantica on Mar 27, 2012 21:14:12 GMT
Brill trip.
Good company, good sailing.
Roll on Easter
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2012 9:33:11 GMT
A lovely trip in the sunshine. A complete contrast for Tracy after her introduction to sailing in the squalls of the New Year trip! Not a lot of wind at all on the way to Portishead until we got fairly close. Several times we were not going fast enough to have steerage and at one point the swirls in the tide swung us around so we were drifting backwards to Portishead!  Bright Flyer and Xanado locking out with us |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2012 9:37:59 GMT
 Exiting the lock (Or should that be (Chauser-ing or Allan-ing the lock?)   Approaching Portishead. Actually it wasn't dark! Just getting dusk.  Why can I never have a good picture of me taken?  Sui on the way back to Cardiff   Locking back into Cardiff |
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Post by Cardiff Yacht Club on Mar 28, 2012 18:51:49 GMT
Can I just thank everyone who has contributed to this trip report, especially with pictures. It really is nice to see your boat, and all the other club boats, and it's an excellent advert for this club.
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