Our wholeboat charter for Cork Week was a group of friends who met at Cork Week 2002 and a few extras that they sail with back in the Solent. We had crew members from Wild Child J109, Murphy & Nye 1720 and Eos Beneteau 51. They were on fighting form all week. I couldn't possibly do justice to the amount of fun that was had so I have used the emails that they wrote to tell the tales of just some of our great moments through the week..... Thanks guys it was awesome "Stay Calm & Carry On"
Tim - My memories of the week - lots seem to be missing, can't think why. Seriously, I can't think!
What
a party Cork is! The social after racing is a first class piss up 'till 2am
every night. Sunday to Friday. The power of rehydration salts cannot be recommended
highly enough as an aid to hangover recovery. Our Mast and foredeck ran a week
long battle to see who could dance with the most ladies. Very successful the
pair of them. All I got was a drunk fat bloke who could balance a pint on his
head whilst doing an Irish jig.
It was awe inspiring watching the MaxZ86s Morning Glory and Pyewacket race around the courses. We had the great pleasure of being sandwiched between the pair of them on Tuesday's start line. Just incredible to watch. Those boats don't half shift!! Mind you I wouldn't want to spin one of those on the start line with all us numpties bobbing around at a quarter of the speed. The attempt to make the windward mark on a Committee Boat was unnerving with Chippewa bearing down on us 5 feet away under kite. Our trimmer, to leeward at the time, was most alarmed!
Hilarity in many forms, not least Jem calling starboard on Morning Glory. It was the quietest call I've ever heard him make, barely a whisper.
Full Pelt twatting Flirt leaving a 10 foot rip in their main and getting flicked from the protest was an interesting bit of gossip. And of course the 'I'm not playing coz you went back on the pre-regatta agreement of no match racing' from Morning Glory was also good.
Our main sheet puppy practising the subtle art of tree jumping at 2.30am and talking to Coiler at the airport rank as some of the standout funniest moments, but the non-stop nonsense and banter on the boat was relentless, oh yeah, and the double take from our tactician as Full Pelt passed our stern by all of 2 inches was rather amusing!!
I have to say that some of the on the water organisation left something to be desired. I think every boat on the water erupted with laughter when the race committee instructed the IMS fleet to stop motoring and resume racing after Minnie the Moocha pointed out that the Sailing Instructions excluded their fleet from the timed out rule. The long windless harbour race on Monday was a struggle, and the double distance windward/leeward 1 on Tuesday left us timed out! Retirement from wednesday's second race with slight damage to the luff of the No.3. Thursday good racing on the W/L 2 course. Fantastic final race against Soleil 3, the other 47.7, for a bottle of champagne, which went down nicely as a prelude to the serious business of the final night party. Shame about the rain!
Cant wait
for 2006. whooooapp-pannggg (private joke)
Paddy - Highlights - surely an editorial challenge to get them all into one article. Brave man.
- sock-sumo crew morale so good that
waiting in a car park for a taxi is enough
to make you cry laughing.
- Pete and Robin double act - should be entries for tricks old and new that
they brought to Cork.
- best dressed in those shirts?
- dancing...
- smash the puppy off the tramoline
- a crew that doesn't know its beaten - yes one more guiness in the airport
seems a good idea while my liver hangs at deaths door.
- sailing highlight surely Pyewacket and Morning Glory roaring past just after
the start line.
You need a quote book - "Jamie what's in these sandwhiches?"
Too many to think of and I'll never go back to work at this rate
keep calm and carry on
Stuart - Some
great memories coming out.........here are few more headline thoughts I can
add:
Morning
Glory not coming out to play on Thurs pm/Fri because of "dangerous situations"
Peter Harrison's Yacht going aground on the low spring tide.
Disco Inferno "Australian Gay Dancing Team" performance - and getting
a greater part of the Irish bar to do "strip the willow"
The amount of unsolicited comment about our shirts - "where did you get
it from?" "Are you all from the same boat?!!!" etc
Jeremy raising a protest on Tuesday because we were timed out...........
There was always Disco Inferno representation at closing time in the entertainment
tents............but every morning we got to the boat (more or less) on time
having enjoyed, at least, bacon butties and produced an excess of sandwiches
for the day.
Lastly, how
well we sailed the boat together, a good team performance.
I enjoyed my week.........thanks for the memories.
So there it is, Disco Inferno does Cork, do it again, you've got to be joking it was freezing!!!! We need to get these guys to the Caribbean, where the rum flows freely and who's heard of closing time!
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