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Fremantle Winter Series 2011

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Created by Poodle > 9 months ago, 25 Aug 2011
Poodle
WA, 868 posts
25 Aug 2011 9:34PM
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Evening All,

As you know we sold our venerable UFO34 Olfrygt a little while back, and bought a new pocket rocket Sydney 36 called "This Way Up". We've had her almost 12 months, and are now really getting her flying, true to her winning history.

We've just returned to Freshie from the Fremantle Sailing Club Winter series - Our Fifth - A great regatta! We had a cracker, and have made a terrific video.

Shameless self promotion I know, but we had a ball at Fremantle, and reckon it's our best vid yet! Turn the sound up Loud!!!!



Poods :-)

cisco
QLD, 12365 posts
26 Aug 2011 10:39AM
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Nice one Poods.

SandS
VIC, 5904 posts
26 Aug 2011 8:02PM
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good one Poods . How many crew is required to race her , i lost count ?

bit of a close call on one of those kite runs about 3.17, that boat with the red kite looked close!!!

thanks for posting need more of it !

cheers

Disralei
NSW, 127 posts
26 Aug 2011 9:35PM
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Poodles

Brilliant vid, thought you did a hell of a job putting that together, T W U's a screamer and is hard on the eyes, you have to be pleased with her, well done.

badinfluence
QLD, 538 posts
27 Aug 2011 1:03PM
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noice

Poodle
WA, 868 posts
27 Aug 2011 11:24AM
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SandS said...

good one Poods . How many crew is required to race her , i lost count ?

bit of a close call on one of those kite runs about 3.17, that boat with the red kite looked close!!!

thanks for posting need more of it !

cheers




8 is full crew, and in fresh to heavy conditions, we need that weight on the rails, and everyone is busy when we round marks. Light air we might go with 7, even 6 for a drifter.

The big red kite going astern was our luffing buddy "The X Factor". I was steering that day, and did not even notice!! They are a Foundation 36 (BW36) - Very close in rating & performance to us. TXF has a great winning record & is very well sailed. They use to kick our arse, so we a very pleased to now being consistently in front of them.

There are plenty more vids, photos, etc on our website:

www.thiswayupracing.blogspot.com

Glad you all enjoy our bragging!!!

Poods



badinfluence
QLD, 538 posts
27 Aug 2011 2:27PM
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TXF....veeerrrrryyyyyy close to kicking your arse..literally LOL!!

Ambience
WA, 30 posts
31 Aug 2011 2:39PM
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Nice job.
Us guys on Choir Practice now know what we have to do to get to the front of the fleet.

Poodle
WA, 868 posts
1 Sep 2011 9:58AM
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NoDrama said...

Nice job.
Us guys on Choir Practice now know what we have to do to get to the front of the fleet.




You guys picked up a few flags towards the end..??

I still vividely recalled our first Fremantle winter series in 2007 on Olfrygt, our old UFO34. We learnt a lot very quickly, usually the hard way! But those lessons really stick, & we still enjoyed it.... and have just kept on improving over the years!! It would have been hilarious to have a GoPro cam to capture some of our more forgetable "learning experiences" from past seasons....

Poods

Ambience
WA, 30 posts
2 Sep 2011 4:18PM
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Poodle said...

NoDrama said...

Nice job.
Us guys on Choir Practice now know what we have to do to get to the front of the fleet.




You guys picked up a few flags towards the end..??

I still vividely recalled our first Fremantle winter series in 2007 on Olfrygt, our old UFO34. We learnt a lot very quickly, usually the hard way! But those lessons really stick, & we still enjoyed it.... and have just kept on improving over the years!! It would have been hilarious to have a GoPro cam to capture some of our more forgetable "learning experiences" from past seasons....

Poods



We picked up a third in the last race. Only three onboard & two of us will be sailing our own boats during the summer, unfortunately leaves Deiter needing some more crew.



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