UK Cherub - news:2006

Bloody Mary

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 18:58:39 +0000

Bloody Mary

Report by Gavin Sims

We did it in Mango Jam (Butt Plug 2682). Very little wind when we arrived which dropped to zero when we launched. With only the 49ers and ex cheruber Alex Adams in his moth left to go once we had finally started our position could only improve. An extremely light wind fetch to the windward (?) mark saw is catch up the tail end of a pack of boats. A run to the next mark saw us sit in a hole with a 29er, a 49er and a Vago and go approximately nowhere until we dropped the kite and caught up with the vastly spread out pack. A 2.4m was in the lead at this point. The wind was still non-existent whilst we sailed the course around the perimeter of the lake. Boats started dropping out and heading back to shore very slowly. About 15 minutes from the finish about 3 knots of breeze filled in, the Thames A-Rater increased it speed ten fold and shot into the lead. We finished amid a myriad of boats on a tight reach with Dave (crew) actually off the foredeck. I think 212 boats started, 170 finished with us coming 142nd.

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Starcross Steamer

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 18:58:39 +0000

Starcross Steamer

Starcross Steamer 5th Feb

It started with two Cherubs, AquaMarina 2681 and 'The Squid' 2677 leaving from Plymouth to Exeter at a very unsociable hour in the morning for these four students. It was set for an 11am start, being a 2 & 1/2 hr pursuit, the winds were set to be light, but we didnt think itll be this light! During the rigging process, with very limited space for cherubs, LOTS of attention as all the other boats where Merlins, and other typical plastic SMOD's. While much faffing about was happening we saw a cadet moving - everyone was in ore. So rapid getting ready was in order as the water was lovely and flat.

Once changed the wind had pretty much all gone, so very slow drifing to the windward mark was in order. Aqua was 1st out & having diffucilty popping the top battens, so the Squid just beat them round the first mark. Now on a reach, Kites went up - but then soon dropped and the reach turned into another beat as the tide was pushing us miles down stream! Squid still drifting infront of Aqua and now the downwind leg, Squid is 97 rules and Aqua has an 05 kite. So once Aqua had gone round the mark her kite went up in hot pursit of the Squid, passing MPS & others who had stopped. Saying that Aqua was the only boat to see the helm monkeying in and out on the wire to ensure maximum flatability! All kites were collapsing around us and the cherubs fell down too. After about an hour of drifting in lovely warm sunshine, and Aqua catching the Squid, both Cheubs decided enough is enough & it really wasnt Cherub weather so we headed for home. Once again, batten issues onboard Aqua - so rapid change needed by heeling her over far too much to simply pop them! Gave up and got a ride into the beach, whilst the Squid carried on and finally landed. Bacon butties and drink was on tap & a slow de-rig. Squidists are proving themselves to be good light wind sailors, they came from merlins so have roll tacking to a fine art - I think Ben and Daryl in Loco will have some competition in this area.

Many thanks to Starcross and all the patient racers as we rigged in their area, and also 'accidentally ' leaving the sail right infront of the race box so the OD couldnt see, ops! Also thanks to Fotoboat and www.sail-sport.com. Pictures on www.fotoboat.com

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Dinghy Show

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 18:58:39 +0000

Dinghy Show

What a weekend! A total of 14 Cherub Sailors manned and womanned the stand on a rota, spending time chatting to Cherub sailors past, present and future as well as wandering around the show checking out the other stands. The boat on the Cherub Stand was Atum Bom (Slug 2688), which was just finished in time….

Other attractions were a kevlar i14, a new foiling moth with a central wand and elliptical planform main lifting foil, a foiling SMOD called an M4, and a model yacht which is one foot long!

On Saturday night there was the annual Cherub Chilli Challenge, which almost everyone lived up to. This year proceedings were enhanced by a quiz which asked incredibly hard sailing related questions.

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Draycote Mini Blast

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:47:43 +0000

Draycote Mini Blast

Friday - The Day Before

Ben, Noycey, and Stuberry turned up a day early to get masts erected, kites rigged, boats tuned etc. No chance of going on the water because Draycote SC was having a small child. Tried on the new '05 rules sail. Lookin' sweet! Now just need a long enough boom!

Tents also rigged in the country park. Into Dunchurch for Dinner. Eating establishments seemed uber-expensive, so we blessed the chippy with our presence. Haddock was good, but chips and battered sausage were crap. They don't like you sitting down or asking for knives either!

then to the Dun Cow for some erious drinking! Pint of 'Old Hookey' tasted like wee. Met Iain C, and Mr and Mrs Simon Roberts (Cherub legend). Moved onto Bass Ale on Iain's suggestion, that's the badger.

Then back to the tent. Bloody cold, bloody uncomfortable, and a bloody storm. Could quite comfortably describe it as the worst night of my life!

Saturday - Chains broken, dogs everywhere

Wow, to say it was windy is an understatement. 38mph winds were recorded. And it was bloody freezing. Ben and I took the Strawb (Italian Bistro Mod. 2649) out. We were going well until I went to hook on, and realised I wasn't wearing a harness. So came back to sure to get properly dressed. But then realised discretion would be the better part of valour, and brought the boat back onto land before something broke!

Mach 10 was reached by Will Lee and Rhys (New Zealand R-Class sailor), aboard Rich Taylor's Spanish Inquisition (Pasta Frenzy mod.). Loved the wheelie guys! Officially send it! Stuberry and Dave Ching went rampant in Norwegian Blue (Italian Bistro Mod. 2637). Water skiing was witnessed on not one, but two occasions. The gusts were officially psycho! Ben and Paul Croote looked like they were having a pretty harsh time aboard Cheese (Dog Mod.) (may even have been a full on pitch pole, LRN style!). But then they tamed the beast and Mach 10 was obtained. Tim and Rhys went for a blast in the Beer Monster (Italian Bistro Mod. 2643). Looked like they were going well to the shore party. Maximum twin-ability! Then they disappeared from view:

“Ooo extreme wipeout”

“That's gotta hurt”

“I don't think that was a capsize”

“Looks like the rigs down”

Sadly they were right. Tim got a tow back with his mast in 3 pieces. Sorry dude, happens to the best of us. At least you were sending it! That mast was homemade over 15 years ago by a pair of first time mast builders: A decade and a half isn't bad - AND it went straight to Valhalla.

In the evening we visited the now traditional “Bombay Tandoori” in Rugby. 4 courses for seven quid. Value! Hottest Madras I've ever had though! Then we went to a club called Style. Apparently you're allowed to take knives in, as long as they're slashing knives, not stabbing knives.

Cheers Mr bouncer, your a ledge! Much hilarity insued with raspberry sambuca, Dave's dancing, and pogo bar stools.

The camera was out, but hope those pictures don't make it onto the forum! Then all back to Iain C's for a much more comfortable night!

Sunday - The other extreme

Everyone woke up either very hung, or still peeved. Sainsbury's wasn't open to serve us breakfast, but happily Mary at Draycote was able to provide bacon and sausage butties. Just what we needed. Met the legend that is TT.

Atum Bomb hit the water for only the second time, driven by Will and abley crewed by Ben Howett. Nice to see the kite up this time. Squid Quo Pro (Squid 2677)boys were going well, smoking upwind.

Strawberry adopted Tim as her new pet, and took Stu along as well. Some twinability up and downwind. Savage capsize on the gybe, but sailing again in less than a minute. Good drills! Then the wind shifted by 90 degrees and died.

Centreboard paddling home for most, followed by boat and tent packing away in the hail.

Report: Stu Tinner

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Weston Grand Slam

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:17:57 +0000

Weston Grand Slam

Well the stage was set for another incredible weekends sailing. 6 Cherubs were expected at Weston for the full 4 days of racing.

Atom Bom - Will and Lucy, Norwegian Blue - Dave and Lara, Aqua Marina - Andy and Tom, Little Fluffy Clouds - Neil and Rachel Thomas, Sweet Dreams - Stu Hopson and Tris/Tim Unerman, Dangerous Strawberry - Stu Tinner and Tim Noyce

Friday

7am. Noyce receieves phone call from Tinny, 'got a bit of a problem mate, just pulled the Strawb out of the garage and the wheel fell off the trailer… Bugger' 7 hours into friday and already a cherub down, not the best start!

Luckily the other cherubbers had started the day a little better. On arrival at weston there was a hive of activity with Aqua, Sweet Dreams and the Norg already on their way to being fully rigged. (2 of the crews had already gone to extreme efforts to even get this far! Stu had driven 5 hours from North Wales and managed 2 hours sleep in the car whereas Dave and Lara had done the round trip to draycote just to pick the boat up from Iains after car issues the previous week! Andy and Tom had a monster trip down from Southampton. All 20 mins of it!

Race 1

The first race of the day saw Atom Bom go out, raise the kite, and then head for shore. In this short time Will and Lucy had managed to break just about anything that could be broken (top effort in such a short time!) Fluffy were still rigging so it was a race between Sweet Dreams, Norg and Aqua. After some intense battling on the water and some expert crewing from Tris aboard SD. Aqua was leading the first lap until a 10min kite drop at the bottom letting Norg through, got going again just infront of SD & slowly crawled back to Norg but finishing just behind them over the line. The result was Norg, Aqua, SD.

Race 2

Fluffy was rigged and ready for action in time for race 2 so we were back to 4 cherubs on the water. (A Bom was back in the field being repaired, all hands on deck!) This race was fiercely contested with SD and Norg changing places at the front a few times on each beat (photo shows one of the times when they were comparitively far apart when crossing tacks!) Final Results were Norg, SD, FLUFFY and Aqua (yes, thats right… 97 rules Fluffy without kite in front of 2005 kited Aqua!!)

Cherubbers split and went their seperate ways on Friday night. Dave, Lara, Will and Lucy went for a posh Italian in Christchurch… Tim, Hoppy and Tinny went into downtown Portsmouth to drink like only students know how!

Saturday

Saturday morning dawned to more wind than Friday, but still incredibly gusty and patchy. Excellent Viewing from the shore.

Race 3

Race 3 saw many cherubbers taking a dip with twinnability at times up and downwind. Atom Bom were back on the water after having made the necessary repairs from Friday. With some rigging issues it was decided to play it safe, blistering speed upwind, painfully slow downwind. At the finish it ended up with Atom Bom taking the win even without kite at any point! Aqua tested out the 12ft rig - Tom browned himself so came in and set up normal rig.

Race 4

More wind, more 400's OCS… The start saw all the cherubs heading up the beat in formation, all a similar pace to start with untill Will got in the groove, suddenly A Bom reached escape velocity, pointed higher, and left the other cherubs for dead. (worryingly fast considering they were without T-Foil!) Some capsizage all round at windward mark and it was time for the fun downwind stuff. Having only one pair of binoculars and the boats on the other side of southampton water this is how the events were viewed from the shore…

'A Bom have popped the kite, wow they are shifting… yep that is definitely dagger board, are sailing boats supposed to go that fast?! Big air! WIPEOUT!'

'Aqua have got their kite up, just went past a spice as if it were stopped, i think tom has made his wetsuit brown, looks remarkably like dagger board once again… WOW! Significant mining, good job they're near the channel or they'd have stuffed the pole into the sea bed!'

Boats returned to the shore to survey the damage. Atom Bom returned minus a wing (ouch), Aqua returned having almost completely removed a shroud point from the boat and later discovered they'd caused some severe damage to the mast. Sweet Dreams retired. Win to Norg.

Noyce and Hoppy went blasting, good speeds achieved… smiles all round. After the de-rig the majority of the cherubbers went back to Dave and Laras for Fish and Chips and beer (thanks again!) Will and Lucy decided to cut their losses and take the boat away for a proper fix rather than a 'boatpark bodge' & Aqua went home for a quick repair.

Sunday

Have few memories of this day apart from managing the drive from Christchurch to Weston in record breaking pace. Aqua decided that if they couldn't win fairly then to resort to plan B… Cheat. New rules 14 main was the order of the day, impressive looking to say the least.

Race 5

Less than inspiring wind. Very patchy, gusty, flukey and generally not good for cherubs! Not sure of the placings but either Norg or SD followed by aqua. (should be noted that aqua were giving the real 14 a run for their money upwind)

Race 6

Bit of twinning achieved but nothing to really get people talking. Similar results to race 5.

Post racing blast for Noyce and Tinny in the Norg. Twinning achieved upwind and smiles downwind. Happy Days. Mrs Noyce was keeping up the Easter Spirit and organised a full roast for Noycey, Hoppy and Tom (thanks mum!) General pub banter followed before retiring to bed.

Monday

Tired faces were greeted with the most wind that was seen all weekend. Lara decided to sit out the race to allow Mark (befriended contender sailor) to have a sail in the Norg. Hoppy and Tim Unerman out in SD, Andy and Tom were on rig selection 4 or 5 with the RMW sails on the HUGE mast. Noycey stupidly agreed to crew a 49er.

Race 7

Start one was a general recall (to make a change.. bloody 400 sailors!) Start two saw some immense twinability upwind. Norg was fighting her way to the windward mark amongst a pack of 800s in a very good position untill their rudder gave way (very sad as they would have made lots of SMOD sailors look very silly in their 17 year old boat had they been allowed to continue!) SD were on the pace untill some unfortunate swimming. Aqua sneaked the victory, (well done chaps). Noycey on the other hand was being tortured on a 49er, not a good boat to sail when suffering from draycote induced illness and lack of strength! Incredible upwind speeds were achieved overtaking 400s, 29ers, spice's as if they were stopped! if only it were that easy in a cherub!

Race 8

SD and Norg were beginning to pack up so Aqua went out for the glory! Good solid win there boys!

Big thanks need to go out to the crew at Weston for organising such a good event. Special thanks to the ladies in the galley (if you could make the recipe available for the chocolate caramel squares that would be super!). Thanks to Dave and Lara for the floorspace. Excellent event, roll on the inlands and the official weston event!

More event pictures at: http://www.eddiemays.com/2006%20Photography/060415_WSC_Easter/index.htm

Report by Tim Noyce (Noycey)

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Random event occurs

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 18:42:45 +0000

Random event occurs

This is a news article on the 19th of April 2006

with some more news

Weston Grand Slam 2006

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:26:38 +0000

Weston Grand Slam 2006

Well the stage was set for another incredible weekends sailing. 6 Cherubs were expected at Weston for the full 4 days of racing.

Atom Bom - Will and Lucy Lee, Norwegian Blue - Dave Ching and Lara Gonzalez Ruez, Aqua Marina - Andy and Tom, Little Fluffy Clouds - Neil and Rachel Thomas, Sweet Dreams - Stu Hopson and Tris Kemp/Tim Unerman, Dangerous Strawberry - Stu Tinner and Tim Noyce

Friday

Race 1

The first race of the day saw Atom Bom go out, raise the kite, and then head for shore. In this short time Will and Lucy had managed to break just about anything that could be broken (top effort in such a short time!) Fluffy were still rigging so it was a race between Sweet Dreams, Norg and Aqua. After some intense battling on the water and some expert crewing from Tris aboard SD. Aqua was leading the first lap until a 10min kite drop at the bottom letting Norg through, got going again just infront of SD & slowly cralwed back to Norg but finishing just behind them over the line. The result was Norg, Aqua, SD.

Race 2

Saturday

Saturday morning dawned to more wind than Friday, but still incredibly gusty and patchy. Excellent Viewing from the shore.

Race 3

Race 4

'A Bom have popped the kite, wow they are shifting… yep that is definitely dagger board, are sailing boats supposed to go that fast?! Big air! WIPEOUT!'

Sunday

Race 5

Race 6

Bit of twinning achieved but nothing to really get people talking. Similar results to race 5.

Monday

Race 7

Race 8

SD and Norg were beginning to pack up so Aqua went out for the glory! Good solid win there boys!

More event pictures at: http://www.eddiemays.com/2006%20Photography/060415_WSC_Easter/index.htm

Report by Tim Noyce (Noycey)

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:26:39 +0000

here is some news on Friday

SSR at Keilder Water

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:47:43 +0000

SSR at Keilder Water

The first event of the Scottish Skiff Racing Grand Prix sponsored by www.trident-uk.com was held on Kielder water over the weekend of the 22nd 23rd of April. Once again we got an amazing welcome from all the members of Kielder Water Sailing Club.

A total of 32 boats turned up in the SSR (Scottish Skiff Racing) Class: 15 Musto Skiffs, three Vortexes, three Cherubs and a couple of representatives from most of the fast classes sailed in Scotland and the North of England including I14s (2), 29ers(2), RS600 (2), RS800 (1), and an 18 foot skiff.

Saturday was cool and cloudy and with gusty and shifty breeze that was up and down all day between about 5 and 20Kts but with most of the day spent in the mid to high teens. There were two Cherubs on the water for Saturday's racing, Will and Lucy Lee in Atum Bom and Phil Alderson and Carol Low in Primal Scream. The start line was quite short for the number of boats which lead to a few general recalls, which gave us all some more starting practice.

Atum Bom and Primal were quite close in upwind speed in the first two races swapping places regularly after the start. Atum Bom showed better pace when the breeze was up but did not seem as powered up when it dropped. Down wind both boats were reasonably close with Atum possibly going slightly deeper. The combination of teething problems of the new boat and far tighter boat handling aboard Primal Scream meant that Primal had pulled out a good lead by the end of each of the first two races. By race three the wind had increased again and the gusts and shifts had got more severe Primal was struggling with up wind pace, while Atum Bom showed some serious bursts of speed. Tiredness was starting to be a problem for the Scream team in the third race and several icy dips while avoiding an RS600 and a plethora of upside down Musto Skiffs. Some spinnaker issues on Primal also meant that Atom Bom was just ahead by the end despite a broken tiller extension.

The fourth race left Primal as the only Cherub on the water but after the third general recall and another increase in wind speed Primal decided to call it a day and head for the shore with about half the fleet. Those that stayed out on the water treated the spectators to a fine display of heavy weather sailing and wipe-outs including an impressive pitchpole by the 18 still under their No 1 rig.

Some very tired sailors were presented with a filling beef stew with Yorkshire puddings in the club house followed by yet another Kielder composite repair masterclass from the Tuna Team repairing their tiller extension and the tip of a Musto skiff mast.

Sunday morning dawned bright and sunny to greet Neil and Ken arriving with Born Slippy. By the time everyone launched for the start of the first race the wind had built to a force three, however it was very shifty and did not last. Up wind if you could get into a patch of wind you could just twin wire but then it would shift 20 degrees and drop to almost nothing. Atum Bom seemed to be making better use of the conditions and had pulled out a good lead, until the last down wind leg where they sailed into a big hole allowing Primal to cruise past at the finish.

The wind was all over the place and just after Born Slippy got out on the water the committee postponed the racing and then abandoned it after it failed to settle into a consistent direction. If you did not want to get anywhere particular the wind was fine for pottering so the three Cherubs stayed out and did some boat swapping and drifting and occasional bit of twin stringing as the wind allowed.

We had loads of fun, some slight sun burn and much food for thought on the planned rig upgrade to Born Slippy. The SSR class was won overall by Richard Stenhouse in his MPS. Primal Scream ended up as lead Cherub, followed by Atum Bom with Born Slippy third. Prizes of some nice Kielder Water sailing club bowls were given out to the first boat of any class with more than two boats and to Team Tuna for being the furthest travelled. Thanks again to KWSC for running the event and another excellent welcome.

There are some great pictures taken by Alan Henderson available from www.fotoboat.com
and a less cherub specific report on www.scottishskiffracing.com

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anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 18:43:35 +0000

This is news on Friday 28th April 2006

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 18:43:46 +0000

Here is the news for sunday.

second day of inlands - no wind again!

Inlands Queen Mary

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 18:44:48 +0000

Inlands Queen Mary

Report by Lucy Lee

Rather sub-optimal weather greeted those members of the Cherub and Moth fleets who made the trip to Queen Mary Sailing Club in London this weekend (6th and 7th May).

After rather a lot of cogitating and navel gazing one brave Moth sailor piped up and declared he wanted to race, despite the sub-5 knots of breeze. The rest of us felt it would be rude to let him drift round all on his own, and the OOD was prevailed upon to set a course and start a sequence.

Amazingly, in the time it took to finish rigging and get the boats on the water the breeze had built to enough to twin wire upwind and down, but sadly this didn't last!

The Cherubs started in about 5 knot : Norwegian Blue led off the start with Mango close behind for the first lap and a half (Atum Bom was late due to an emergency spinnaker halyard fix). Then Mango found a few big holes allowing Norwegian to further away.

By the time Team Tuna made it to the line it was quite clear where the holes in the wind were as Norwegian was busy covering Mango down the first downwind leg. The wind shifted about all over the place, getting lighter and lighter all the time.

During the second lap Team Tuna managed to gain enough ground to be in touch with Mango by the leeward mark. Some cross tacking and shift following saw the two 2005 rules boats fighting it out up the last windward leg, with Atum first to hoist by a small margin. Norwegian had built a substantial lead by this stage but unfortunately suffered from being the pathfinder boat down a run as full of holes as a swiss cheese (not helped by some very deceptive flags!).

Atum had just enough pressure in the spinnaker to keep moving and they arrived at the leeward mark neck and neck with Norwegian Blue. A slow-motion duel to the line was settled just in Atum's favour.

Sunday was hot and still as a mill pond on the eastern side of the reservoir. With foolish optimism triumphing over common sense Atum Bom and Norweigan Blue set off to do battle again, while Mango Jam and the Moth fleet opted for ice creams and sunbathing. There was just about enough wind to fill a kite and set a fairly windward-leward course, but during the race it varied enough round to turn the two windward legs into two fetches (on different tacks), which suited Atum Bom slightly more than Norwegian.

Final Results:

1st Atum Bom: Will & Lucy Lee

2nd Norweigan Blue: Dave Ching & Lara Gonzales-Ruiz

3rd Mango Jam: Gavin Sims & Dave '420'

Many thanks to Queen Mary SC for hosting the event.

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Atum Bom Wins Inlands

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 18:44:11 +0000

Atum Bom Wins Inlands

(possibly because Sweet Dreams, Loco Perro and Shiny Beast did not make it)

Weston Open 2006

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 18:44:19 +0000

Weston Open 2006

Report by Lucy Lee

Pictures by Olly Straker

A slightly more favourable forecast greeted the Cherub sailors at Weston Sailing Club this weekend (May 13th & 14th), compared to the Inlands! We were promised a Force 2-3 on Saturday with 1-2 on Sunday.

With that in mind the OOD lost no time at all in getting all three fleets (National 12’s, International Moths and Cherubs) started on three back to back races in the blazing sunshine and slightly shifty Force 2.

In the first race Atum Bom (Will & Lucy Lee) and Norwegian Blue (Dave Ching & Lara Gonzales-Ruiz) enjoyed three sedate laps with occasional single wiring upwind and down.

Up the first beat of the second race Norwegian and Therapy (Matt and Mark Grant) sensibly went right to avoid the tide and capitalize on the wind bends. Therapy rounded first, followed by Atum, with Norwegian close behind. In order to pass Therapy, Atum opted for a higher and hopefully faster track, which paid off after some exciting luffing in steep chop!

By the third race the breeze had filled in enough for occasional twinning. Atum and Therapy made it to the windward mark together, but Atum was able to pull out into the lead by soaking lower off wind.

After the racing Therapy went for an exciting blast in the freshening breeze. Their brand new rig was clearly working well as they were seen making for the Isle of Wight at escape velocity.

In the evening there was carbon work (forestay fitting on Lost in Space, reinforcement of lowers on Atum, spinnaker pole on Therapy, plus numerous tiller extensions), Fish ‘n’ Chips all round and beer etc at the club. Mat and Paula Burrows, new owners of Catanachne arrived in time for the food and drink.

Sunday dawned warm and windless which led to rather optimistic gear choice (shorties all round) and less than total enthusiasm to hit the water. However, once out on the water it became quite clear that the forecast was all wrong, and we were in for a blow!

Up the first beat of the fourth race Atum escaped. Therapy rounded second and set off in hot pursuit, closely followed by Lost in Space and Norwegian. Therapy put in some serious air time, followed by some serious swim time. Lost in Space gave no quarter and moved swiftly into second. Norwegian were loving the breeze and gradually gained ground on Lost, pulling ahead during the final leg. Tragically for Dave & Lara a broken kite halyard on the final drop let Lost back into second, and put an end to their racing.

At the start of the fifth race it became quite clear that those sneaky boys on Therapy had been stocking up on water ballast during their dips (mostly in their stomachs!) as they made mincemeat of the first beat. Lost in Space were starting to struggle a little upwind in the stronger breeze as they were single wire, but were showing a far superior skill levels than Atum who appeared to have completely forgotten how to tack! By the windward mark Therapy were a pale blue dot in the distance but Atum had made back some ground on Lost. Atum managed to survive the downwind leg despite only having a small fraction of daggerboard in the water for long periods of time. Lost were less lucky with the waves on the other side of the run, and Atum rounded in second. On the second lap Therapy were forced to make a lightening quick pit-stop on the beach to sort a minor jib cunningham hitch, but the size of their lead saw them finish second!

Therapy started the final race in fine form but retired at the windward mark the second time round, having noticed that Lost and Atum were heading in with yet more tiller extensions to mend.

Back on the beach we caught up with Mat and Paula who had taken Catananche out for the first time. There were ear-to-ear grins all round, and they are looking forward to trying the kite once their trapezing muscles have recovered! Many, many thanks to Weston Sailing Club for a great event, with fantastically slick back to back races. We hope to be back in 2007.

Final positions (One Discard) 1st Atum Bom: Will & Lucy Lee (1,1,1,1,1,DNS)

2nd Norwegian Blue: Dave Ching & Lara Gonzales-Ruiz (2,2,3,3,DNS,DNS)

3rd Therapy: Mat & Mark Grant (DNS,DNF,2,DNF,2,DNF)

4th Lost in Space: Tim Unerman & Jack Gifford (DNS,DNS,DNS,2,3,DNS)

Weston Open

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:29:11 +0000

Weston Open

Report by Lucy Lee

Pictures by Olly Straker

With that in mind the OOD lost no time at all in getting all three fleets (National 12's, International Moths and Cherubs) started on three back to back races in the blazing sunshine and slightly shifty Force 2.

In the first race Atum Bom (Will & Lucy Lee) and Norwegian Blue (Dave Ching & Lara Gonzales-Ruiz) enjoyed three sedate laps with occasional single wiring upwind and down.

After the racing Therapy went for an exciting blast in the freshening breeze. Their brand new rig was clearly working well as they were seen making for the Isle of Wight at escape velocity.

In the evening there was carbon work (forestay fitting on Lost in Space, reinforcement of lowers on Atum, spinnaker pole on Therapy, plus numerous tiller extensions), Fish 'n' Chips all round and beer etc at the club. Mat and Paula Burrows, new owners of Catanachne arrived in time for the food and drink.

Therapy started the final race in fine form but retired at the windward mark the second time round, having noticed that Lost and Atum were heading in with yet more tiller extensions to mend.

Many, many thanks to Weston Sailing Club for a great event, with fantastically slick back to back races. We hope to be back in 2007.

Final positions (One Discard)

1st Atum Bom: Will & Lucy Lee (1,1,1,1,1,~~DNS~~)

2nd Norwegian Blue: Dave Ching & Lara Gonzales-Ruiz (2,2,3,3,~~DNS,DNS~~)

3rd Therapy: Mat & Mark Grant (~~DNS~~,DNF,2,DNF,2,DNF)

4th Lost in Space: Tim Unerman & Jack Gifford (DNS,DNS,DNS,2,3,~~DNS~~)

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Date and Venue Confirmed

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 18:44:28 +0000

Date and Venue Confirmed

Last year the French Cherub fleet invited us to Carnac for what turned out to be an unforgettable weekend.

We have just heard that this year's French trip will be to Granville in Normandy, handily quite near to Cherbourg and St Malo.

The dates are the 14th and 15th of October.

(Carnac was so fantastic that we may go again, but this will not be part of the travellers series as it is the weekend after the Nationals, which are in Scotland. The dates for this are the 9th and 10th of September.

See you there!

Hot Cakes

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 18:44:41 +0000

Hot Cakes

Keen-eyed readers will have noticed the second hand boat list is getting slimmer due to demand outstripping supply. This can leave Cherub newbies without a suitable choice of boats to get them started, which is bad!

On a vaguely related note: Please help find these lost boats:

Bistro 2646 "Madge Allsop"

Last seen at Dale sailing centre in Pembrokeshire, possibly owned by someone named Paul. There is also a lead in the Cardiff / Barry area.

Bistro 2661 "This Way Up"

Last seen in Bristol belonging to Mark James and Sarah Armstrong, both teachers. The trail went a bit cooler when they went to Egypt for a year, and cold when I heard a rumour they had gone to New Zealand.

These boats would make a perfect first Cherub - so if you've seen anything, please get in touch.

Oleo Banjo

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 18:44:55 +0000

Oleo Banjo

This fine example of Cherub-kind is taking shape in France.

The full story is availble in French from our friends at Breizhskiff.

It's in French but the pictures are good!

SSR at East Lothian YC - 3-4 June 2006

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:32 +0000

SSR at East Lothian YC - 3-4 June 2006

27 boats turned up for the second SSR event of 2006 held at East Lothian YC in North Berwick. A mixed fleet of Musto Skiffs, 49ers, 29ers L4000s an Int 14 and a Cherub were greeted by sunshine and a good wind for the first race on Saturday. The Cherubbers of Primal Scream were enjoying the first race, swapping places with the Keilder based 29er of Fergus and enjoying the steady wind and flat water of North Berwick, till a loud bang from the back of the boat on the last downwind leg singled a return to the shore for repairs to the Gantry which had partially detached from the deck.

The rest of the boats enjoyed the racing, and although the wind dropped slightly during the day the weather gods were smiling on the fleet. This was especially true for the 6 Musto Skiffs who at the end of the racing hoisted spinnakers to go sightseeing around the Bass Rock, while they were going around the Rock the wind reversed itself giving them a long kite ride home in time for a BBQ.

Sunday was cloudy with a lighter wind than Saturday so Sunday's racing was mostly a matter of hiding from the tide and avoiding the holes in the wind. The Cherub was back in action but struggling with the lighter winds and a tencency to find all the holes.

For full report see www.scottishskiffracing.com

Pos	Helm	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	Pts
1st (Musto Skiff)	Richard Stenhouse	2	1	3	1	1	1	6
2nd (Musto Skiff)	Ian Trotter	3	2	2	4	3	DNC	14
3rd (Musto Skiff)	Ian Renilson	1	3	1	5	5	7	15
1st International 14 (6th overall)	Martin Wilkie/ Iain McCafferty	5	5	5	26	4	8	27
1st 49er (7th overall)	Stewart & Ben Robertson	7	4	8	13	11	11	41
1st Laser 4000 (10th overall)	Sam Thompson/ Matt Day	20	23	18	7	6	3	54
1st 29er (12th overall)	Fergus & Tom Holland	17	20	19	10	17	2	65

The next SSR event is at Largo Bay 24th 25th June a good oppertunity for some of the northern boats to scout out the conditions ready for the Nationals.

Stone Blast

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:32 +0000

Stone Blast

On the 24th and 25th June 2006, the Cherubs came to Stone SC in Essex for the biannual blasting weekend.

On the Saturday the breeze was late in arriving, so, once afloat, the fleet blasted late into the evening, missing all the food at BBQ laid on by the sailing club! During this session Atum Bom's T-foil was put to proper use for the first time, providing supporting evidence for the theoretical performance advantage.

Ewan Harris (rebuilder of Bistro 2655 Monkey Magic) appeared in his Thunderbirds vehicle of a rib. He said, “Hmmm. I will add a T foil to my list of jobs”. This was after he rescued Atum Bom's helm's hat, and before he disappeared to the rib's berth up a muddy creek (and possibly in a secret underground bunker). Therapy (Platypus 2656) made a welcome appearance and did some worthwhile blasting.

The evening was spent foraging for food as there was none at the sailing club. We were lucky in our choice of hosts and an emergency BBQ was arranged at Mr. and Mrs. Brown's fabulous pile overlooking the River Blackwater.

So as the sun slowly descended over the gentle landscape of Essex, and the smoke from the BBQ slowly rose and disappeared in the gloaming, thoughts and words turned gently to T-foils and Nationals transport arrangements….

We were also treated to an informative lecture from Mr. Brown on waste management strategies, including the merits of incinerators.

On Sunday the debate on the shore was whether the assembled Cherubs and assorted other classes would be able to stem the tide which was really hosing in, at the start of the race. Most of us could, but there was a large amount of mudskipping (and mud finding) to be done to improve our chances. Much duelling with Shearwaters (beautiful boats) was enjoyed, and we were jealous of their short centreboards! Atum Bom was the first Cherub home.

In between the races the wind had piped up and the tide reduced such that long-legged Cherubs went in search of more breeze and clearer air on the first beat of the next race. Therapy won the war of attrition in the building breeze.

After this, Loco Perro (2685 Big Issue) changed hands from builder / visionary Ben Brown to class returner Dan Kemble. Welcome back! Also of note was the appearance of Paul Smith (not the shirt designer, we established) with an elderly Forman 4 hull which was built in cirec 1980 but never sailed or registered. Paul is planning to sort the boat out to make a perfect starter Cherub for him and his family and came to get some tips.

Thanks to Stone SC for being very welcoming and relaxed, and providing industrial quantities of scones for Cherub sailors suffering with acute calofic deficits.

Next event: Weymouth at Castle Cove 12th - 13th August.

New Website

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:32 +0000

New Website

If you are reading this then you have made it to our new website: Welcome!

This website is a continuation of Jim Champs's hard work which started (can you believe it?) in 1995 when he created one of the first class association websites. Jim, an IT professional, handbuilt much of the site and it grew to a total of over 1000 pages of hints, tips, news, historical articles, how-tos and how-we-dids.

After 11 years of growth the website needed a good clear out, and with more activity within the class than anyone can remember, we set out to reduce the load on the webmaster too.

Now all class association members can update the website, including collaborating on event reports so no-one's point of view is neglected! As well as this, features can be added, extended by any member as technology and techniques change.

Other features include an image lookup in which our extensive image archive of approaching 5000 images can be interrogated by boat or by date, a playground where anyone can see how easy it is to contribute to a wiki website, and a contact feature whereby individuals are contactable by email without revealing their email to potential spammers.

Try editing a wiki page here…

and view the page here.

For the technically minded, the wiki-engine basis for the website is dokuwiki, written in php. Dokuwiki is a free opensource software project, which means that anyone can conribute to improve the project (including your webmaster), and it is free. More about free / opensource software.

Have a look around and admin the webmaster if you have any questions or comments.

Here is an example of the image lookup in action:

Utter Madness

Cherub 2638, a Fartpants, is for sale on ebay. There has been much excitment as these foam boats are well known to last forever.

View Ebay page

Update

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:32 +0000

Update

Cherub members have been tending their new website beautifully. It now has many new pages both accessible to everyone and limited to just members.
Bistro Comfortably Numb's refurb is moving along nicely, and it even matches the drawing!
Bistro Monkey Magic's radical refurb is also cruising. It looks like it'll be a race to the start line for these Bistro mods!
Members have also been augmenting the photo archive with pictures old and new.
Your webmaster's theory that this idea of opening it all up a bit would reduce the load on him has been a partial success: Now I am an IT support person! Oh well - a change is as good as a rest!
Loco Perro has now moved from Stone SC to King George SC.
The Flying Trifle has moved from Newcastle to Bough Beech Sailing Club, where the witch still lives in the clubhouse!
Atum Bom is having all the paint sanded off in time for a quick trip to get a respray.
The Flying Kipper has been sailing with new owner Tom Kiddle.
AquaMarina's foil collection is looking scary and more complete, Andy Lang and Tom Gruitt will soon be airborne!

Sport Scoop

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:33 +0000

Sport Scoop

Roman Abramovich tables £20 Million bid for latest unknown French footballing superstar

Tonight's top story on Cherub News is that a relatively unknown player from France known only as Oleo Banjo is about to hit the international big time. An ill-informed, balding, regional pundit opined to Cherub News today, “Oleo is tall, light and strong, can certainly kick a ball, and is sure to be good in the air.”

Close up:

Old Fart looks forward to new life in Essex

Fartpants Prodigal Son has been picked up from Bournmouth and has taken to a secret Colchester location (secret from the new owner's wife) for a makeover, refit and rename to Prodigal Son before it takes residence as the first of the new Brightlingsea fleet.

Aeromarina!

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:33 +0000

Aeromarina!

Aquamarina (Paterson 7b 2681) was the first Cherub to go reliably (and quickly) with a T-foil, and it looks like she may be the first to go fully foiling too.

Your reporter was lucky enough to get an interview with Andy Lang, the man with the foiling mission:

Reporter:	Andy, that's quite a machine you have there!
Andy Lang:	That's right - This mutha's gonna bust up every no-good Cherub on da scene, y'knowwhadimean?
R:	How are you going to control the foil? With a wand like the Moths do?
AL:	I ain't telling you nothin' - ya'll only spill it all to my jealous rivals, and that would be no goddam good to me, y'knowwhadI'msayin'?
R:	What about the rudder system? Can you tell me something about that?
AL:	I ain't tellin' you nothin', so get outta my face before I pop a cap in yo' ass!

It seems we'll have to wait to know the details….

Hot Cakes

There are some boats on the second hand boat list, after there being none for ages and the last incumbent selling in about 4 hours. Three Cherub sailors who are upgrading are now selling their former steeds:

Second Hand Boat List

Activité en France

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:33 +0000

Activité en France

This is getting out of control (in a good way)!

François Goulet who built the amazing red Cherub named Special Sauce seen at Carnac last year has emailed to say that there is ANOTHER french Cherub nearing completion.

This boat is a Italian Bistro made from a mould taken from Halo Jones.

The boat belongs to Aurore and Laurent, and will be sailing at Carnac and Granville later in the year.

The Halo Jones influence is visible within like the full height main bulkhead, simple flat floor and the chunky gantry. What a vessel! There will soon be a battle for supremacy between this boat and Oleo Banjo!

Moan moan moan

Among the nice messages about the new website there have been a couple of complaints too.

A few people wrote to say they couldn't see the <html> <font color=#26bede> nice turquoise links </font> </html> that permeate this site, marking internal links between pages.

These are now changed to white for your convenience.

If you don't like it, you could always complain!

admin

Activity in France 2

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:33 +0000

Activity in France 2

“Special Sauce” caused quite a stir at Carnac in Brittany last year among the UK Cherub fleet: A completely new boat out sailing that we'd heard very little about. Francois Goulet from Nantes built the boat as a student project so funds were tight. He produced a solid vessel with no compromises over what was important, using secondhand and inexpensive materials to save money with a very large dose of ingenuity and talent thrown in:

Time passes and circumstances change: Special Sauce has evolved over last winter into a very tidy machine indeed:

Go Francois!

Aquamarina goes large

Andy Lang and Tom Gruitt have just sent these pictures of their steed AquaMarina's new rags. The spinnaker is a recycled RS800 one and the main is one modified from an international 14. The mast step is now at gooesneck level. These lads are practicing hard, but in the evenings they are preparing the foils for Aqua's first fully foilborne flight…

Spy Photo

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:33 +0000

Spy Photo

Our spies get around (and they need new cameras)

What is this cherub-related item?

Clues: It's made from solid timber, it comes apart into three parts of roughly equal weight, it is about 2.5m long, and resides in Somerset.

Guesses to the Cherub Class Mailing List. (answer tomorrow)

Spy Photo identity revealed

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:33 +0000

Spy Photo identity revealed

This object is a beautifully made three-part wooden mandrel for the home-building of booms.

The special features are the taper at the gooseneck end to save a bit of weight and the unique (as far as we know) system of releasing the boom off the mandrel.

The mandrel is in three parts, all of which are the full length. They roughly correspond to the top, the middle and the bottom parts of the boom. This is the clever bit though: The middle one is wedge shaped so it is easy to remove, and the space made by removing that one makes the other to easy to remove as well.

This is a very welcome addition to the collection of things that Cherub sailors can use to make themselves those “little essentials”!

Thanks to Paul Croote (Dog 2645 Cheese Before Bedtime) for using his professional skills to do this.

Speed Freak

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:33 +0000

Speed Freak

This speed was hit by Mango Jam (Butt Plug 2682) this weekend in breeze and flat water at Neyland in Pembrokeshire.

Wey hey!

25.1 knots is a lot of knots, but this boat and crew have never been noted for dawdling in a breeze:

Video of Mango at Speed

This puts Gavin Sims and Simon “Little T” Turnbull at the top of the Y+Y / Garmin Speed Freaks league.

Congratulations boys!

This was without any hydrofoil assistance, so there's more to come.

Madge!

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:33 +0000

Madge!

Madge Allsop (Bistro 2646) has been found!

Madge is named after this lady who is Dame Edna Everidge's silent 99 year-old bridesmaid / sidekick.

This boat was lost for many years, then found in January 2004, then lost again in late 2004, and is now found again in mid 2006. She is alive and well and living in Llantwit Major, Wales.

The only missing boat is Bistro 2661 “This Way Up”, last known to be owned by Mark James and Sarah Armstrong of Bristol. Please help us find the last lost boat!

admin

Nationals Entry Form

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:33 +0000

Nationals Entry Form

Your nationals entry form is now available:

Entry Form

See you there!

Blue Migrates after surgery

Norwegian Blue has had some long needed surgery.

First the hull got a bit of a rub down and the old gunwhales got the chop.

New light foam wings are fitted with carbon struts.

Shaped to fit.

Carbon added and ready for a lick of paint.

Wonderous Wanderous

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:33 +0000

Wonderous Wanderous

Wanderous (Hawkesworth 2 698) has an amazing survival story. This boat was first registered in 1963 having been designed and built by A Hawkesworth of Wolverhampton, Staffs, after his 1959 nationals win. The boat was to be sailed at two clubs called ECSC and LCTSC.

She has shown up again, complete and in working order, and is on the way to Draycote SC to become a sailing exhibit of 'the way we were'. She has been bought by a consortium of local cherub sailors who want to keep this bit of Cherub history alive.

These photos show the lightening holes in the centreboard, the very fine cranked tiller and the beautiful, ahead of their time, rolled side tanks.

Countdown to Castle Cove

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:33 +0000

Countdown to Castle Cove

The date: 12th and 13th August 2006.

The time: 12 noon on Saturday - three windward-leeward races back to back.

The time: 11am on Sudnay - three windward-leeward races back to back.

The place: Castle Cove Sailing Club - famous for a ripping blasting weekend last year.

The person to contact with queries: Mark Grant 07968 021 503.

The extras: There will be blasting on Friday the 11th too. All welcome - new boat - old boat - no boat.

The scandal: Weymouth Town regatta (of which our open was to be a part) recently cancelled the dinghy event! Our friends at Castle Cove SC have kindly stepped in to save our open meeting, so the Cherub open is going ahead as described above. See you there!

Website Hacked

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:33 +0000

Website Hacked

Our website was hacked today, but it is mostly together again now, and will be completely together tomorrow.

Thanks to David McCreary at Sailingsource for incredibly swift action getting things back moving again.

Castle Cove

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:32 +0000

Castle Cove

All pictures courtesy of RoloVision Inc

The plan was to have an open meeting as part of the dinghy section of Weymouth Town Regatta, but unfortunately the event was cancelled at the last minute. This did not deter brave local Cherub sailors Matt and Mark Grant who put together an open meeting package complete with committee boat, rescue boat, marks, and all the requisite people to allow for the Cherub show to go on in a very short time indeed - Nice one boys!

It blew its nuts off all weekend: On Saturday the 12 noon start was put off until 2pm in an effort to allow the wind to go down. It didn't, but the strong turnout of Cherub sailors, including a total of six new faces, hit the water anyway.

It was messy, and before any races could be started the committee boat started to drag. Prudence overtook duty and racing was abandoned, but a little thing like that did not get in the way of some monster blast-time for many cherubs. The couple of tow-ins were very ably managed by rib-driver-to-the-stars Nick Spicer, to whom many thanks.

Once everyone was suitably knackered it was curry and pub o'clock.

Sunday dawned windier but less gusty and the hardy set out for their start on time. Dog 2645 Cheese Before Bedtime with owner Paul Croote and special-guest-star crew Tom Kiddle led from the start, with Will and Lucy Lee in Atum Bom on their heels. Ridiculous shifts meant challanges for all in staying upright, but a slightly quicker tack aboard Atum let them through to the lead, only for them to capsize on their next incautious tack. At the top mark the teams were together, both optimistically waiting for a lull between the continuous psycho gusts (anemometer recorded a gust of 34.1 knots with average of 26 - graphs coming) to get the bear away in. Atum went for a gybe set and hit the light speed button, and escaped to win after a couple more laps of careful sailing where the main aim was to prevent the stern from overtaking the bow. Tim Unerman, the emergency-stand-in race officer, also had a fine camera lent by the appropriately named Cherub newbie Roland Trim with which he took some stunning shots.

After this the windward mark went off on its own bid for freedom, so the racing was sensibly called off. Some extreme blasting was enjoyed by all until it was definitley time to pack the boats up and go home with grins sufficiently topped up for another week in the office.

Special mention must go to complete cherub newbies Roland and Hayley Trim. They looked at the weather, decided that they were probably a bit new to manage it - and went out sailing anyway! They propelled their boat Flying Trifle 2652 “Oops (again)” very ably in a variety of directions before coming in. On Sunday they did just the same, only this time wiping out and inverting on the start line before conquering the beat and then going back in under their own steam. They had an excellent weekend and enjoyed blastability with a goal in sight - to finish a race next time it is that windy!

Results:

Place	Design	Name	Number	Helm	Crew	Designer
1	Slug	Atum Bom	2688	Will Lee	Lucy Lee	Simon Roberts
2	Dog	Cheese Before Bedtime	2645	Paul Croote	Tom Kiddle	Simon Roberts

Wind Graph:

Notes:

The graph shows the average, minimum lull and maximum gust over ten minute samples continuously from midday Friday to midnight Sunday.
We have shown the times we were sailing.
The wind did not go down between midday and 2pm on Saturday.
There was a 40.1 knots gust during the blasting on Saturday.
The wind generally seemed to be greatest while we were sailing!
There was more wind with less gusts on the Sunday, and is was definitely easier to sail.
An average of 25+ knots of wind for any period is a lot of wind.
The wind was in the north, Weymouth's gustiest and shiftiest direction.
We were in the top of the harbour, the gustiest and shiftiest bit.
The testsail on Monday (see below) was sailed in perfect conditions.
Data from Weather File with thanks.

Dinghy Sailing Magazine Test Sail

Our friends at Dinghy Sailing Magazine organised one of their now-infamous two-boat tests yesterday: Cherub vs 29erXX. I can tell you it was lots of fun for everyone, but for the full details you'll have to wait for the paper mag published on the 14th September, but watch this space for a sneak-peek mpeg.

Round Caldy Island Race

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:33 +0000

Round Caldy Island Race

Sunday 13th August 2006

A race to a mark the Saundersfoot side of Caldy and back. It was blowing quite a bit. The first leg was a run. Basically it was far too wavey to really go for it - I've never been so wet, even in a Cherub.

From the second the start gun went I was under a wall of water from the bow. As we neared the leeward mark Simon (Goodwin - crew) was shouting at me we should gybe. I was underwater trying to keep it going straightish. A few more hollers from Si and he figured I couldn't hear or see anything so he dropped the kite and informed me we've passed the mark and it's time to turn around.

We fell in 3 times on the way there, meaning we rounded 4th, behind a 505, a Fireball and a Scorpion. The beat back was long. We fell in 3 times: Once in a tack, once blown over by a gust (it was very vicious in Saundersfoot Bay) and once to windward (the lulls were equally vicious)

4th in the end,(behind the 505, scorpion and fireball). 30 boats started, 15 finished I think.

On several occasions the bottom of the centreboard was noticably out of the water - the boat goes sideways very quickly when that happens.

Report by Gavin Sims

Pages of a lemon hue

Sharp eyed readers will have noticed a small change in the front page. A previous graphic has been replaced by a new pink one which says “Address Book”. Here's why:

(Very many thanks to the RYA Legal team)

14 Aug 2006
Mr Lee, I am writing to inform you that your use of the trade mark YELLOW
PAGES on the www.uk-cherub.org website is infringing Yell\'s intellectual
property rights.
I appreciate that this may have been a genuine mistake, so I kindly ask
that you remove all use of the infringing trade mark from your website
and/or any other materials immediately and confirm to me by way of letter
that the removal has taken place and the trade mark will not be used in the
future.
I look forward hearing from you by return. In the meantime, Yell reserves
all of its rights.
Pete MacIntyre
Yell Legal Counsel
Yell Limited

Dear Mr MacIntyre,
Thank you for your email. I am flattered that our tiny concern has drawn
the attention such an organisation as Yell. Can you tell me how you found
out about us? Are you a sailor?
You can be assured that any infringement of any intellectual property
rights concerning the trade mark YELLOW PAGES would be an accident, and
that as soon as we know what it is we must do, we'll do it.
 Please can you list for me which parts of our non-commercial community
website infringe the rights you claim, and how we can verify your claim? I
imagine you would like us to change the name and the graphic on the front
page?
Alternatively we would be very happy to use the YELLOW PAGES name with
permission if it were to be granted. We could display a note showing that
we have obtained permission, complete with a link to www.yell.com.
Whichever you prefer.
Lastly, all comunication with us will be by email as we are a paper-free
organisation.
Best wishes, and thanks for writing me the most interesting email of the day.
Dr William Lee MBChB BSc MRCPsych
Clinical Lecturer
Institute of Psychiatry
London

Dr. Lee
Thank you for your prompt response.
I attach 2 screen shots of your website's use of our Yellow Pages trade
mark which prompted my initial email. While the intention of your site may
be non-commercial, I submit that the fact that your website seeks 'Yellow
Pages' advertisers and claims to receive 110,000 hits a year suggests
otherwise, for trade mark purposes atleast.
As we are not in a position to licence use of our trade mark to you, we
would be grateful if you can simply please replace the words "Sailing
Yellow Pages" and "Yellow Pages" with an alternative that is not one of, or
similar to, our trade marks. Note we also have a trade mark in Business
Pages.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation in this matter.
Pete

Dear Mr MacIntyre,
Thanks for your message.
In accordance with your request we have replaced the YELLOW PAGES artwork, 
changed the title of the page and changed the colour.
I very much hope you find this in order.
Best wishes,
Will

Dr Lee, thank you for amending your website.
Regards
Pete

Sneak Peek

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:32 +0000

Sneak Peek

As promised, here is your sneak peek video taken at the Dinghy Sailing Magazine two boat test last Monday between Cherub 2688 Atum Bom and a 29erXX. Read the full tale in the October issue of DSM which comes out on the 14th of September, just in time for the Southampton Boat Show.

Click the URL for the video » http://www.sailingsource.com/cherub/test/lib/exe/fetch.php/2688-20060814.mov

You'll need Quicktime 7 to see this video.

Video by Class Publicity Officer Daryl Wilkinson.

Nationals Countdown

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:32 +0000

Nationals Countdown

Notice of Race

The dates: 30th August to 2nd September 2006

The place: Largo Bay Sailing Club

The person to contact: Phil Alderson Phil_Alderson

The entry form: Entry Form

Largo Bay is basically the finest place to sail in Scotland. When Will lived in Inverness he used to drive 95 miles to sail at Largo Bay. Sandy beach. Steady winds. Lovely people. Well run racing.

NOTE FOR ENGLISH PEOPLE: This is not the same place as Largs!

Key Facts

Race Times:

Wednesday August 30th —1400 hrs. Subsequent races will be sailed back to back

Thursday August 31st— 13.00 hrs. Subsequent races will be sailed back to back

Friday September 1st—13.00 hrs. Subsequent races will be sailed back to back

Saturday September 2nd — 13.00 hrs. Subsequent races will be sailed back to back

Cherub News

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:33 +0000

Cherub News

Members can download the their latest 2006mag08.pdf.

Not a member? It's only ten quid a year for non-cherub owners.

You can now join us instantly at the Become a Member.

Scottish Nationals Countdown

The Sunday before the UK Nationals at Largo Bay on the East Coast of Scotland, there is the Scottish Nationals at Largs, on the West Coast. Don't mix these places up!

Largs regatta 2006

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:33 +0000

Largs regatta 2006

It was great to see so many cherubs make the detour to Largs on the way to the nationals for what proved to be a challenging weekend sailing. On Saturday there were three races round the cans in Largs channel in some very shifty and varying breeze which probably went from about 5-20knots throughout the afternoon. Primal sailed all three races and was joined by a different cherub in each of the races. Cheese started the first race before realising there main was slowly making its way back down the mast Strawberry raced the second race and Aqua the third.

Cherub Scottish Championships

Sunday was the distance race round the island eight cherubs started the race with Dave and Lara probably making the wise decision to stay on the shore. Before the start Stu Hopson and Tim Noyce on Sweet dreams managed to make their mark on the million pound super motor yacht, rumoured to belong to a Russian Billionaire football chairman, anchored near the start line. Initially the breeze failed to settle and was up and down but once we turned the corner the wind got up and the waves appeared which made heading to windward hard work. The first casualty in the fleet was Sweet dreams who were forced to retire when there forestay failed and there rig fell down. The next boat to retire was Cheese before bed time due to the lack of jib cleats on the boat the crews arms were starting to tire and would potentially not have survived the race they therefore made the wise decision to head for home. Finally Aqua was forced to retire and now has a nice Tom shaped hole in the jib.

The remaining five cherubs battled on and thought it might get easier when they rounded the first mark, after a few capsizes from all the boats Atum bom were first round followed by Primal scream, Squid pro quo, Lost in space and Dangerous strawberry. At the mark both Atum and Primal found it impossible to bear away when Atum tried their rudder broke but they managed to fix this quickly and get back sailing and when primal tried they got blown over by the wind therefore both boats were forced to go the long way round further out into the channel for an interesting and tough sail through the waves before it was safe to bear away and head down wind and eventually get there kites up. The other boats with the 97 rules sails managed the bear away and gained the advantage by being able to hug the shore By the time everyone reached the bottom mark the squid had done incredibly well and caught up with Atum while Primal had lost a lot after a couple of capsizes on the last leg.

It was soon time for the gybe at the bottom of the island Atum turned first and hit the water a move which was mirrored by the squid. Everyone was now on the way to the finish line and the wind had dropped considerably in the Largs channel Atum took off to the finish and first place, Primal was closing in on the squid until they got into the lee of a large yacht and went for a quick swim and the squid got a well deserved second place followed by Primal in third. A short while after Lost in space completed there epic journey, congratulations to Tim and his crew who has never crewed a cherub before for completing such a gruelling race. The final boat to make it round the island after a gallant effort was Strawberry who had had a tough time round the back of the island, with many capsizes and a large part of the Clyde in their boat, so well done Stu and Oliver and everyone else who completed the course.

Results:

Atum Bom; Will and Lucy lee
Squid Pro Quo; John Hacket and Robert Kennaugh
Primal Scream; Phil Alderson and Carol Low
Lost in Space; Tim Unerman and Joe Siman
Dangerous Strawberry; Stu Tinner and Oliver Hobson

Aquamarina; Andy Lang and Tom Gruitt Rtd
Sweet Dreams; Stu Hopson and Tim Noyce Rtd
Cheese Before Bed Time; Ben Howett and Calum Reid Rtd

For photos see http://www.pfmpictures.co.uk/ for contact details and email Marc Turner for availibility

2006 Nationals Largo Bay

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:34 +0000

2006 Nationals Largo Bay

Largo Bay SC welcomed nineteen Cherubs to Fife with sunshine from Weds 30th August to Sat 2nd September. The racing was tight throughout the fleet and the conditions varied from F1 to F8, testing all-round skills. Race Officer Gordon McGeorge and the rest of the team put together an excellently organised championship which was enjoyed by all.

Check out the photos at www.fotoboat.com

Race 1

Moderate breeze of 12kts and glorious sunshine allowed for champagne sailing. At the gun the fleet bunched at the pin end in anticipation of an advantages left side. This left a line for those opting for the committee boat end. Team Scotland sneaked past first at the pin end bang on the gun with Mango Jam right on their transom - after a very tight beat with most heading out into the estuary to try and pick up the flood tide the Scots boat rounded first at the top mark. The larger rigs on Mango and Atum Bom soon told on the downwind leg with Will and Lucy in the Bom storming down to the bottom mark in first. The Flying Kipper sporting her retro aluminum rig with mainly 91 rules sails was still in hot pur-suit and the frisky conditions ensured thrills and a few spills for all. By the end of the first lap the 97 rules Team Scotland in Born Slippy had slipped back to 4th with Fuzzy Logic now pressing hard astern. The waves made for some exciting surfing. Matthew on the Kipper was very glad of his new foot straps in the swell. Largo Bay is famed for its fairly short steep waves that fetch over several miles from Edinburgh and spectacular Pentland Hills behind. Further tight racing throughout the fleet followed with many boats trading places. Lap2 saw Will & Lucy clear in front followed by Mango, the Screamers, Fuzzy Logic and Born Slippy. The weight of the lardy scots was begging to tell against downwind making them fifth at the bottom mark but buy the end of the third and final lap, Atum Bom took line honours with Mango second and the local boys Team Scotland a career best 3rd. The screamers had lost out thanks to a spot of trawling at the bottom mark, followed by an enforced swim to retrieve the big rag. Cherub stalwart Suicide Blonde (now a fully upgraded Bistro) was by now really shifting and came in 4th. Lost in Space - with a half-converted 2005 rig - took advantage of their upwind speed to climb from 3rd last to 5th (just behind Simon and Ian), Aqua Marina, Flying Kipper, Primal Scream, Squid Pro Quo, Sweet Dreams, Shiny Beast, Beer Monster, Loco Perro & Oops Again all crossed in the next few minutes making 14 out of 18 finishers in a breeze that was encouragingly strong in the gusts.

Race 2.

Wind holding up well

Again no false starts were signalled by the committee but Born Slippy rounded the pin again just to be sure. At the Boat end there was a battle between Kipper, Strawberry and Mango, Strawberry trying to force Kipper out but a Huge pull on the mainsheet and a nice surf pulled them clear of The Strawberry’s ridiculously extended pole. Mango Luffed up and forced The Strawberrys out which meant Mango and Kipper got 2 fantastic starts. A tight beat ensued again with a pack of cherubs rounding the top mark with the usual suspects in the lead.Mango was consolidating their lead and Suicide were holding off Slippy but not by as much as they wanted. Just astern was Lost in Space (again charging through the ranks on the uphill legs). Tim and Tom were catching up having thrown up the kite and wired up - then bang - trap wire gave way… After the second beat

Will and Lucy were now feverishly effecting repairs to their rudder stock (sucessfully in the end). And Primal Scream were now reduced two sails.

So at the bottom mark, Mango was clear ahead of Suicide Blonde, followed by Fuzzy Logic and Born Slippy. By the finish line Slippy and and Fuzzy had traded places thanks to opposite choice of tack on the final beat (more wind inshore outweighing more tide off-shore).

Swim induced fatigue and the odd snag reduced the finishing fleet to 12 but a high grin factor was evident on the beach at the close of sailing. The sun shone, the wind blew and the Provost of Fife was waiting in the Crusoe Inn for a Civic reception for Cherubs and Moths.

Race 3

With a big breeze out to the start the eager cherubists were met with a disappointing lull in time for the start. For the first time in living memory there were so many super keen boats on the start line that a general recall was needed. This was a special disappointment to the teams aboard Sweet Dreams and Flying Kipper who had the start seriously nailed, only to have to do it again! This was a great result aboard team Beer Monster as they had to re-rig their whole kite system on the beach and managed to leisurely attend the second start. Unfortunatly sweet dreams didn’t have such a good start second time round and ended up at the back of the fleet off of the start. The breeze held throughout the three laps of the race. At the top mark it was Atum Bom followed very closely by Mango Jam, and there was much loose covering for the rest of the race and they finished in that order.

Race 4

The breeze had dropped a little by the start, but was up and down during the first lap. Sweet Dreams banged left up the first beat and managed to sail cleanly underneath and out the front of ‘the squid’ to round the windward mark in a comfortable position, and held it till the end. Atum and Mango, battling for the lead, had just started their second laps when the breeze disappeared altogether, commencing an interesting drifting and zephyr-hunting session to get to the top mark. Half way down the next run, which turned into a tight reach for leading Atum Bom such that the kite could not be carried. Second place Mango Jam was able to carry the kite and cruised by in their own puff to take the race with Atum Bom second.

Race 5

The Fuzzy Logic team came to prominence in this race by nailing the start and using the clocking shift of the wind to great effect. They met Atum Bom at the top and Atum Bom managed to get away. Rounding in third and fourth Primal and Shiny gybed off, with Shiny making the bottom mark first. Up the second beat Shiny got through Fuzzy and were close to catching Atum by the final leeward mark. Up the final beat Atum covered Shiny, and managed to hold on to first.

Race 6

On Friday morning the breeze was seriously UP! The white horses visible in every direction soon faded and this race began in about 10 knots of breeze. There was a busy start and through the scrum came Atum Bom and Mango Jam. That was the order at the finish, with Fuzzy Logic third.

Race 7

Started in more breeze with solid starts for Mango and Fuzzy and shocking starts for Atum and the Flying Kipper. The breeze built steadily up the first beat. At the top it was Fuzzy first with Mango second. Kites were hoisted by the leading boats just in time for the most amazing squall. We think that all the boats capsized in the maelstrom except Atum, who were saved by having to luff past Shiny in what counted for a lull and were safely on a close reach when the worst hit. By the time it was possible to see, hear, think and right the boats the chequered flag was flying, but Atum and Mango didn't see it until they passed the finish line (in that order).

The fleet returned to the shore to recoup and take stock of the losses, after which the club lowered the AP and another race was on!

No-one was injured and there were very few breakages - This fact was commented on by the Coastguard man who showed up on the beach as the competitors came ashore. Although the Squall did make the front page of the Fife Corrier, CEFAX and BBC News. The one casualty was Primal Scream who sadly broke a wing on the rocks after sending the rib towing them out to help the rest of the fleet because they were near the shore. This just before the worst of the squall hit….

Race 8

Not so breezy until the Moth 5 minute, when it went completely nuts again! Mango and Atum managed three sensational wave leaping crew-destroying laps, with Mango winning by a huge margin. Team Kipper were smoking, as were the boys on Sweet Dreams who held it together in challenging conditions and were seen leaping from waves with the whole boat out of the water.

Race 9

Saturday dawned windless and rainy but by the start there was about 5 knots from the SW, which built a bit during the race. There was quite a lot of pressure on the start as the wind had gone round nore southerly during the sequence making the line and beat port-biased. It was away cleanly despite the race officers later admission that he feared carnage was coming! Atum, Shiny and Mango rounded and set off down the light wind and big waved run. Shiny soaked and Mango went hot, leaving Atum in a quandry over where to go, covering the gap between them. Shiny looked good but fell in in a gybe leaving it up to the duelling Atum and Mango to settle the issue. Up the next beat the course had been moved from 235 degs to 125, making the beat more beat-like. Atum was ahead at the end after loose-covering Mango to the end.

Race 10

To win, Mango Jam needed to win both of the last two races and Atum needed to win either.

Off the start Mango got away cleanly and Atum had some struggling to do to be ahead at the top by a whisker. Mango played windshift-roulette, hitting the left, forcing Atum to go there too. After the gybe Mango found superior speed and was right on Atum's transom at the rounding. It was a drag race to the corner and back, but Atum tacked too early for the top buoy and had to tack to take Mango's stern as they rounded. A collision resulted in turns for Atum and allowed Mango to sail away into the lead. Seeing Mango in right-cornersville, and having no other cards left to play, Atum Bom pulled on their T foil to more than they'd ever pulled it on to before and preperd for a do-or-die trip to the bottom. It was quicker and incredibly lower and with both sailors hanging right off the stern at times, Atum caught Mango by the bottom mark. I still wasn't over as Mango found special pointing ability and closed the gap on Atum. At the end Atum took the race and the series by a little over a boatlength.

Race 11

With 1st and 2nd place sewn up, Atum and Mango hit the beach leaving the battle for the other places to go on in their absence. Sweet Dreams took advantage for a first over Squid Pro Quo with Suicide Blonde coming in third. Stuart Hopson and Fergus Holland had a poor start to the competition in Sweet Dreams but after the first day had a string of consistent finishes giving them a good third in the Championship, and the best improvers trophy too.

Results

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Boat

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Crew

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Series Points

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1</TD>

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2688

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Atum Bom

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William Lee

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Lucy Lee

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King George S.C.

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2</TD>

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2682

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Mango Jam

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Gavin Sims

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David Hannaford

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Neyland Y.C.

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3</TD>

<TD>

2663

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Sweet Dream

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Stuart Hopson

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Fergus Holland

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Shotwich Lake S.C.

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</TD>

</TD>

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</TD>

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4</TD>

<TD>

2677

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Squid Pro Quo

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Robert Kennaugh

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John Hackett

</TD>

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Midland S C

</TD>

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</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

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5</TD>

<TD>

2659

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Flying Kipper

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Tom Kiddle

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Mathew Kiddle

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Coveham S C

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6</TD>

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2644

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Suicide Blonde

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Iain Christie

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Simon Roberts

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Draycote Water S.C.

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</TD>

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</TD>

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7</TD>

<TD>

2674

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Born Slippy

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Neil Cardno

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Ken ScottBrown

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Royal Tay YC

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</TD>

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8</TD>

<TD>

2658

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Lost In Space

</TD>

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Tim Unerman

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<TD>

Tom Holland

</TD>

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Weston S C

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</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

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9</TD>

<TD>

2685

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Loco Perro

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Tim Jestico

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<TD>

Daniel Kembue

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King Gearge S.C.

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</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

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10</TD>

<TD>

2681

</TD>

Aqua Marina

</TD>

<TD>

Andy Lang

</TD>

<TD>

Tom Gruitt

</TD>

<TD>

Netley S C

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

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11</TD>

<TD>

2686

</TD>

Primal Scream

</TD>

<TD>

Phil Alderton

</TD>

<TD>

Carol Low

</TD>

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Peterhead S C

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

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12</TD>

<TD>

2675

</TD>

Fuzzy Logic

</TD>

<TD>

David Chisholm

</TD>

<TD>

Andrew Prince

</TD>

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Waldringfield SC

</TD>

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</TD>

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</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

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</TD>

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13</TD>

<TD>

2676

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Shiny Beast

</TD>

<TD>

Dave Ching

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<TD>

Lara Gonzales

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<TD>

Poole Y C

</TD>

103

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

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14</TD>

<TD>

2645

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Cheese Before Bedtime

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Ben Howett

</TD>

<TD>

Calum Reid

</TD>

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Farmoor S.C.

</TD>

120

</TD>

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</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

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15</TD>

<TD>

2649_V

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Dangerous Strawberry

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<TD>

Stu Turner

</TD>

<TD>

Ollie Hudson

</TD>

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Welwyn Garden City

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121

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

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16</TD>

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2350

</TD>

Peanuts

</TD>

<TD>

Jill Sutherland

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<TD>

Charles Sutherland

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Largs S.C.

</TD>

129

</TD>

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</TD>

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</TD>

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17</TD>

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2534

</TD>

Oop's Again

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Simon Turnbull

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Jo Siman

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Bough Beech SC

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131

</TD>

</TD>

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</TD>

</TD>

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2643

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Beer Monster

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<TD>

Tim Noyce

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Steve Hackett

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Nottingham Trent Uni SC

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136

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

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19</TD>

<TD>

2683

</TD>

Pocket Rocket

</TD>

<TD>

Ken Appleby

</TD>

<TD>

James Collett

</TD>

<TD>

Weston S C

</TD>

153

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

</TD>

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Nationals Prizegiving

Congratulations to new National Champions Will and Lucy Lee and all the other prize winners of the 2006 Cherub Nationals hosted by Largo Bay Photo © Alasdair Sneddon

Nationals Prizegiving

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:33:28 +0000

Nationals Prizegiving

Congratulations to new National Champions Will and Lucy Lee and all the other prize winners of the 2006 Cherub Nationals hosted by Largo Bay Photo © Alasdair Sneddon

For the full report see 2006 Nationals Largo Bay

Eurocup YC Carnac

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:34 +0000

Eurocup YC Carnac

The dates: 9th and 10th September

The place: Carnac, Brittany, France.

Caption Competition

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:34 +0000

Caption Competition

Members can add suggestions below or you could email them to the list.

In no particular order

Rich Taylor
- Crew pays ultimate price for late bear away.

Lucy Lee
Cherub fleet experimenting with genetically modified one-legged, ultra-light-weight invisible crews.

Iain Christie
- “Keep coming out of your footloops? Then try the new Gill bootloops!”
- perhaps in a BBC style. Scotland- A freak tornado has totally decimated an entire fleet of racing yachts in the Fourth of Fifth, Lower Lager. Thunderbird 4 (International Rescue) was put on standby to over for Stingray (World Aquanaut Security Patrol) who are currently on holiday in Australia. Some readers may find the attached images disturbing.
- City & Finance-Shares in Airbus Industrie today slumped as the French company issued warnings that deliveries of it's new A380 would be delayed. A spokesman blamed a sudden unexplained shortage of carbon fibre in Europe.

Jon Changi
- “…and all that was left was this smoking boot…”

Roland Trim
- “His boots had finally reached the pinnacle of evolution: walking done,E=mc2 mastered, now how to sail a cherub??”
- “WEIGHT REDUCTION TIP #2: After getting your crew to cut his toenails: it is customary to take the crew, not just the clippings.”

Will Lee
- “Waterline length is very important for boat speed, and this enterprising Cherub sailor has added an extra foot to his boat - and stayed completely within the rules!”
- Poor boy. He misunderstood the pearl of wisdom from the race officer at the Nationals. He asked, “Gordon, what must I do to sail a cherub faster?”. The reply, so easy to get wrong, was “Boot handling, laddie, boot handling!”.

Tim Noyce
- In an effort to get down to somewhere near the ideal crew weight Tim went for the lightweight 'borrowers' option. He can now sail 5 up as long as they can take cover in the boot.

Neil Cardno
- After drinking in the Railway Inn until 1am, the foolish crew attempted to sail the next morning while still completely legless…

Daryl Wilkinson
- Gill announce urgent product recall after serious zip failure.
- The old woman who lived in a shoe is very upset with her new seaside apartment. “it's full of damp and mould'” she said.
- “After the 12 o'clock starting signal this is all Prince Charming had to go on”, was the pronouncement made by the race officer.
- After misreading the Cherub single handed racing instructions the competitor's error was suddenly crystal clear.

Paul Croote
- I think that in the quest to get as much included in the 50kg max hull weight including “permanently fixed fittings”, fixing your boots to the hull is bending the rules somewhat and is not a cunning plan!

Tom Gruitt
- Bootiful!

Cardinal Sin

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:34 +0000

Cardinal Sin

Richard Taylor, former owner of Italian Bistro 2655 “It's Me Too!” (now Monkey Magic) and Pasta Frenzy The Spanish Inquisition has collaborated widely with the class to create his first design, called Cardinal Sin. This Slug-inspired vessel has been in build at Aardvark Technologies, and everything is being built from female moulds to facilitate production of Cardinal Sins.

The plug nearing completion.

During fairing.

The deck mould looking like it might have been made at Smilie Marine!

“To the Bat-Skiff, Robin!” (said Batman)

Aardvark Technologies are taking orders for Cardinal Sins now, but they are incredibly busy so if you want one, don't be shy!

Big Names Collaborate on new Cherub Project

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:34 +0000

Big Names Collaborate on new Cherub Project

Hot on the heels of the Cardinal sin Project, Dave Chisholm announces that Desperado Boats the marine projects arm of http://www.carbonology.com are starting a project to build a production Cherub. Here is a sneek preview to give some idea of what might be happening.

“Having been at the 2006 Nationals we decided that a quick and well built production Cherub would be nice to take along to the 07 champs, and a worthy project to get our teeth into - little did we know it would generate so much interest from some big names!”

“After a few emails and phone calls, Paul Bieker - the designer of the Bieker 5 International 14 has agreed to tweak that very same hull down to fit the UK Cherub Rules and to work at 12ft (the dynamics are subtley different apparantly - but it will still look just like an 85.7% B5 14!)”

“Tooling will be in progress as soon as we have the drawings and the first B5c (as we hope Paul will allow it to be called) will be built in carbon/foam sandwich from female moulds with prepreg bulkheads/structure and resin infusion technology hull and decks. We hope to be testing the prototype before the end of 2006. The boats will be built by Desperado Boats, the marine projects department of carbonology.com, at our main site in Woodbridge, Suffolk. 2005 PoW Cup winner, Mike Lennon from Hyde Sails will be working with us on the rig design, using their successful 2006 series i14 sails as a starting point.”

“The top 5 at this years 14 Worlds in Long Beach were all B5's - a shape which is the product of hundreds of hours of hull and foil development starting in 1999 when the Bieker 2 was one of the first designs drawn to the 'modern' 14 rules allowing racks, taller rigs and the development of T foils. There are certain advantages with working within the Cherub rules too - the maximum beam of the 14 and Cherub are the same [1.8m], so in effect the B5c will have proportionally wider racks - which of course may extend behind the transom, while the minimum hull weight at 50% is significantly less than 85% of the 14's 74kg minimum.”

We don't have any pictures of the boat yet, but if you're wondering what a B5 looks like, check out the pictures of a Jason King's Beiker 5 from the International 14 website.

For more pictures of the B5 look here: http://www.i14.org/news/b5/

We'll keep you posted as the project develops!

Dave Chisholm

Technical Director http://www.carbonology.com

Cardinal Sin Update

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:34 +0000

Cardinal Sin Update

Cardinal Sin is nearing the completion of the tool set at a rapid pace. Team Aardvark have done a fantastic job in moving this project along so quickly. The Hull tool will have come off the pattern by the time this update hits the web and Charles England at Sea Solutions is well on the way with the foils from the class mould. The most superb C-Tech rig arrived by air freight last Friday complete with bowsprit and oval boom.

Mike Cooke at Aardvark estimates 4 weeks before the first Cherub from a complete production tool set comes out of the workshop.

This weekend sees some long hours with SolidWorks CAD package to finalise the Bill of Materials and final design layouts. It will also see the first serious production parts drawing for “T” foil components that use lightly modified windsurfer skegs with some CNC manufactured parts. There is also a really cute solution for quickfit rudder attachment too.

If you're interested in a new boat don't hang around. I'll be machining parts in the next week so please get in touch as there are economies of scale to share in making multiple CNC parts. richard_taylor me to find out more.

The Hull pattern

Deck pattern

Eggbert the nasty 2535 is now on ebay!

Eggbert the Nasty

Forman 8, ply with recently added false floor.

1991 rules rig.

Great first cherub.

Just needs a new spinni halyard and a few blocks,

Now listed on ebay item number 220034363663 Link

Corus

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:32 +0000

Corus

This is a 90 second, 10MB taster of just what is to come.

Corus was windy, had flat water - and Mango Jam with Gavin Sims and Simon “Little T” Turnbull aboard won with three massive bullets. All this with the extra weight and windage of a digicam attached to the top spreader to give an extraordinary view of cherub sailing never before seen.

Spreadercam Video - 10MB Download

(You may find right-clicking and saving the file has more success if the straightforward 'click-on-it' method does not work)

How to extend a mast with an internal track

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:34 +0000

How to extend a mast with an internal track

Paul Croote (Dog 2645 Cheese Before Bedtime) has a very neat mast from Tropical Engineering in Cowes. This mast has served Cheese for many years, but to upgrade to 2005 rules it needs to be extended. Mast extensions are not eaxactly an overnight job, but they are not difficult to do. What makes this extension project special is that the mast has an internal carbon track. This is what he did:

Tapered about 100mm of the top of the mast and shaped some low density foam.
Here it is again from the end. Note the taper continues.
On go about 4 layers of 200g Uni's. The individual bits of cloth are trapezoidal to avoid a stress riser.
This is consolidated with some polythene.
Here the Uni's have gone off.
The slot for the track is cut out after the foam blank is removed. You can see the top of the old track within.
The new track tube is glued in place (carefully)
Some weave is put round the whole thing to improve looks and hoop stiffness
After finishing this mast looks like a fine job!

Would you like to learn the skills to do this? The Class Association runs informal weekend get togethers where new members can learn from the experts. There's one coming up, so why not will_lee us?

Eurocup YC Granville

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:33:35 +0000

Eurocup YC Granville

The dates: 12th and 13th October

The place: Granville, Normandy, France.

backlinks

Wicked Sinner

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:34 +0000

Wicked Sinner

The Cardinal Sin Project gallops towards completion by the day. This is a moderate development of the successful Slug design, with some extra attention paid the static fore-and-aft stability and to in-boat ergonomics too. Today's news is that the specifications for the fittings of the whole boat is now done, and the hull mould is going off, due to come off the plug tomorrow. In the mean time here is a CAD image to keep you happy.

Two Cherubbists Tie The Knot

On Saturday 14th October 2006, the keepers of Primal Scream Phil Alderson and Carol Low were married.

Congratulations from all Cherub sailors - past and present - and best wishes for your future together.

Special Note 1: The most hydrodynamic flower pot in the world - Beside the happy couple is a beautiful model of Primal which was a surprise addition to the proceedings provided by Carol's brother David.

Special Note 2: Malcolm Garrington the best man sailed with Phil in his previous boat AquaMarina in 2004.

Special Note 3: The venue of Largs sailing club was fabulous - you can see Great Cumbrae Island in the background.

Special Note 4: The hymns were sung accompanied by North Tyneside Steel Band who also provided exceptionally appropriate music at every stage of the evening. Highly recommended, especially 'Dancing Queen'!

A really splendid event to mark a very special occasion. Also amazing fireworks over the water - fabulous!

From left: Debbie the bridesmaid, Phil the groom, Carol the bride, Malcolm the best man, and Marc Turner sailor and photographer. This picture was taken by Gav Homer who is an I14 and Musto Skiff sailor.

Huckle Rides Again

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:34 +0000

Huckle Rides Again

After months of varnishing, polishing and family fun. 1494 - Huckle (The Maori Hunter) is back on the water again.

Cardinal Sin Update

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:32 +0000

Cardinal Sin Update

Cardinal Sin's deck came out of the mould yesterday evening.

Whey Hey!

Spreadercam!

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:34 +0000

Spreadercam!

This is a 90 second, 10MB taster of just what is to come.

Spreadercam Video - 10MB Download

(You may find right-clicking and saving the file has more success if the straightforward 'click-on-it' method does not work)

Smile Cookie!

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:35 +0000

Smile Cookie!

Here is a very shiny Cardinal Sin coming out of a perfectly formed mould, looking like an eyecatching bit of Cherub Badassery. What is he thinking? Can't he spare smile for the photographer?

This reporter thinks that perhaps he doesn't want to dazzle us by adding the glint of his pearly-whites to all the reflections from that mirror-like hull.

Go Cardinal Sin!

UK Cherubs go YouTube!

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:35 +0000

UK Cherubs go YouTube!

As some of you may have noticed, the videos page has now got a more modern look to it which enables you to view the videos without having to download.

If you have any more footage you would like to see on the website, add it to youtube and link away!

Countdown to the Winter Series

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:32 +0000

Countdown to the Winter Series

Hardy Cherub sailors are meeting at Weston SC to do the winter series there from this Saturday 4th November to Christmas.

It's 45 pounds for the whole series including boat parking: A very good price at the very Cherub friendly club. Current confirmed entries range from the current national champions to 90s rigged single wire boats. So wherever you're at with your Cherub sailing, you can be guaranteed close competition.

It has also been arranged for some sunshine to coincide with a video boat at some point in the series. So if you want some training footage, or to feature on the new DVD.

Be There!

Head Cam

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:32 +0000

Head Cam

First came spreader cam. Now comes Head Cam!

Cheese Technology

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:35 +0000

Cheese Technology

Below is an extract from Cheese Before Bedtime's own page, where a gripping story is taking shape.

Told in the first person by Paul Croote

Update November 2006

Having decided that I needed a longer pole so I can set mast rake back to how it was, things escalated rapidly!

Problem 1. Concerned with the unsupported 11-foot pole as it is offset from the snout, also the snout was short by about 100mm and mast is well forward so had no chance of fitting a self tacker with a reasonable size jib.

Solution- just simply fit a new snout with centre pole, no problem!

Problem 2.Retracting the pole so it misses the mast.

Solution- need a pole with lots of taper, no problem!

Problem 3. Can't find a pole tapered enough.

Solution- Make one.

Problem 4. Can't find a suitable mandrel.

Solution- Call in some favours with local engineering companies and have one made.

Problem 5. Find out I could almost buy a new cherub for the same price! (Next time they want some firewood or shavings they can ***!)

Solution- Make one in wood.

Problem 6. It is not possible to turn it in the traditional way because the section is too small for its length so it is too whippy, also is unlikely to stay straight.

Solution- After much head scratching ,glue timber around steel tube-

Make trough and fit mandrel in with it sticking out more at one end than the other.

Run the contraption through a spindle moulder then rotate the mandrel a few degrees and repeat. (all done very late at night to avoid a badly timed visit from Health and Safety)

Bit of sanding and

One mandrel aprox 4.2m long, 30mm dia at the pointy end and 85mm at blunt end. Made so the launch tube can be made on the mandrel as well.

New launch tube and pole in boat.

Problem 7: Just thought whilst I have gone this far a might as well give her a sand back and re-spray but the side tanks were a bit soft. So I cut a hole to have a look. Very damp and de-laminating. before long I was back to a sound hull and floor.

As I have gone this far I am planning to cut the flairs off extend the sides up and fit either racks or wings, not sure yet.

P.S. Class members are welcome to borrow the mandrel.

New Feature Boat Amnesty

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:32 +0000

New Feature Boat Amnesty

According to Harvey Hillary there are at least 5 things wrong with every boat in a championship fleet. Each one of those things has the potential to slow the boat down. Writing down the problems that you find when sailing will make it more likely that you will fix them.

In the Cherub class I think most of us can find more than 5 things wrong with our boats. The Boat Amnesty page was created to give a place to list defects and to cross them off over the winter as they are repaired.

Have a look and add your own boat to the Boat Amnesty Remember a problem shared is a problem halved!

Cherub fotoboat Calendar!

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:35 +0000

Cherub fotoboat Calendar!

The Cherub fotoboat calendar is now available to buy! Go to http://www.fotoboat.com to order yours now!

Strange Activities in the woods!

Suspicious from Kent asks for help regarding a strange ritual he stumbed across near Sevenoaks.

After they finished, this was all that was left…

Please feel free to post any suggestions!

Les Limaces ('The Slugs')

Wednesday 1st November is a bank Holiday in France and that means only one thing:

Preparing the pluge withe release agent (Cirex)
First layer of carbon (200 g/m²)

1°C outside means it is really hard to get enough degrees inside. Thanks to a provisional heater I manged to reach 19°C.

Thursday 2nd November:

Premaring the foam
Fixing the foam

Friday 3rd November:

A lot of sanding.
Nice coating
Preparing of external skin.

Cardinal Sin

Progress continues apace at Aardvark HQ:

Weston Winter Series

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:32 +0000

Weston Winter Series

The first day of the winter series dawned to a crisp morning with a severe lack of wind. So much so that Noycey decided to cancel his crew and leave his faithful steed keeping warm in the garage but made an appearance anyway. The more enthusiastic teams of Shiny Beast and Atum Bom rigged up and went for a drift.

There was only one race which finished Atom first and Shiny second but the race was a bit of a lottery with very patchy wind.

New Ellway 5 Design

Kevin Ellway has sent in a preview of a design he has been working on for Patrick Cunningham, which he though my be of interest.

Here is what he has to say about it:

The Ellway 5 design combines what I've learned from the SK4 design process, 4 years of sailing Beans (a Slug) with an 05 rig, and 32 years (yes really) of sailing cherubs into the design of an all round boat.

I have moved to slightly more rounded fore and mid sections than the SK4 due to the lower upwind speeds of the Cherub. The drag predictions are around 9-10% less than a P7 at speeds up to 8 kts. At planing speeds 10kts up, the drag is similar to a Slug, although drag predictions for non prismatic forms are a bit dubious using Stavitsky.

I will do an overlay with the slug, but basically the E5 is a lot finer in the bow and shoulder sections which reduces considerably the wave drag at high displacement/ semi planing speeds.

The design is still a lot more cherub like than the Bieker. This has a huge amount of chine rise throughout its entire length.

If anyone would like this design, it is free as long as the designer is acknowledged, but I would suggest paying the CCOAUK a donation of say £10.

I hope it is of interest.

Best regards

Kevin

For members only there is a pdf with more views of the design ellway5-20061106a.pdf

Summary of design and build activity

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:35 +0000

Summary of design and build activity

There's been such a lot of activity recently that it can be difficult to keep up with it all.

Here's a quick summary:

Slug

The Slug plug was donated to the class by its builder Robin Russell and designer Simon Roberts. The original build batch consisted of three boats and since then there have been two more. After this the plug was loaned to the French Cherub fleet who are building the first of a further pair at the moment.

Cardinal Sin

This design is a moderate development of the Slug design. A streamlined build process is organised to be inexpensive and allow for building from kits. It is being masterminded by Richard Taylor. The first boat is nearing completion and there are orders for two more.

Bieker

Class newbie Dave Chisholm (aka Carbonology Dave) has rounded up some massive sailing names to work some magic on this project which he is soon to start building. Paul Bieker is one, Mike Lennon is another. Need I go on?

Ellway 5

Kevin Ellway used his impressive Cherub experience to produce his fifth design, the hull shape of which has just been finalised.

Something old, Something new

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:35 +0000

Something old, Something new

Now winter is drawing in, people are getting busy in garages up and down Europe. Here's examples from Weston-Super-Mare and Paris:

Paul Croote is rebuilding his Dog Cheese Before Bedtime. The original 1990 bulkheads look in good shape after 16 years of hard service. Of note are the beautiful new vertical go-fast single-skin topsides which will provide an easy route in and out for the helm and crew.

Ghislain Devouthon is building the Slug which is not yet named, but is known for conveniance the Natural Born Skiffeurs in his garage in Paris. The progress is rapid, and the ribbonny twill is radical looking.

BUSA Student Nationals 2006

Tom Kiddle took The Flying Kipper to Weymouth with guest crew Eva Cuhna for a play in the predicted non breeze as a representative of Team Solent. Heres what happened…

As could be expected, the house we had rented for the weekend had far more people staying in it than it was designed for, this made the main aim for Friday to get there as early as possible. Not for competitive reasons, eg an afternoons practice to get your head round the breeze, tide patterns etc. but instead to make sure you had the best room! Sadly for them, it seemed that the freshers were lacking the required skills of lecture twagging and fast boat towing and so arrived late and ended up with the sofas! Note for the future; If you take a girl, you get the room with an en-suite! (result)

Saturday dawned, the water could be seen. It wasn't a mirror, but close. Unlike most students, a group shop had been made, and a breakfast chef elected. This meant that the sight of still water across the bay was offset with the smell of bacon and scrambled eggs. The main briefing was at 9:30 with registration before that. So for all involved it was an early morning despite following a relatively calm night by student standards! After a few reunions with friends from around the country, it was time to rig. This was a very relaxed affair under the comfort of the AP flag. We were released an hour after racing was due to start so the fleet did it's best to drift out to the committee boat. It was evident that The Flying Kipper was sailing heavier than she is used to, this lead to a worried look from Tom as the transom sat millimeters from the water. Eva was ordered to make use of her dry suit and tow the boat ashore (it wasn't that far). Once ashore it became clear that the boat wasn't carrying water or minus a bung, it is just that her normal crew is far far lighter than any beer drinking, kebab eating student could ever hope to be. So back out under Eva power to at least get enough wind to move. Time came for 'all aboard' and it was then that Eva found out the hard way that a cherub is far more tender than a 470. So it was decided, on the basis of decency, that the best approach would be over the stern. It was then that Tom's suspicions were confirmed that students are heavier than his normal crew… in full view of the academy's balcony the pole pointed at the nearest still cloud, and the boat toppled over. Not good!

On to the race. Having found a lane to the race area we started our watches. The start was beginning to look OK. Second row with nearly 70 boats bobbing about. At this point the non cherubs were able to drift slightly faster and use their bigger than a 91 cherub rigs to cover The Flying Kipper's entirely. Fourth row, bad. The fleet ouched them selves off the line making sure the marshals weren't watching and The Flying Kipper tried to make the best of it. The first beat was sailed like a race by The Flying Kipper sailing to the port lay line to make as take as much advantage of a swinging breeze as possible. Despite this, dead last. Not too much of a surprise, but annoying. The rest of the race was sailed around the back of the fleet chasing a laser 3000. Having just crossed the start/finish line for the first time, a gun fired and a blue flag flew. Tom shouted to the committee boat. “Does that mean we've got to sail another 52 minute lap within the 25 minute time limit we have to finish behind the leader?” “Yes” came the reply “So you'd better get going!” In an attempt to be sporting The Kipper carried on regardless. Just before the windward mark we met our friends in the Laser 3000, whose trapeze harness we had rescued earlier, Tom shouted “do you reckon you can finish in the time limit? You've got two minutes left!” during this shout The Kipper had born away to follow. As the gun fired and the finish line closed, “Pub 'o' Clock?” “Your on” came the reply from the Bristol Ladies in the 3000. It seemed not all was lost.

Sunday. After a night in the world famous 'Rendezvous' (details deliberately omitted) it was time to get up. This time the water really did look like a mirror, so back to bed. After much rehydrating it was time to visit the boats, on the drive down we saw flags happily flying in a gentle breeze. Bugger! Cover off at 9:55 in preparation for the race at 10:30. It seems Team Solent had made the most of their night in a rented house with four of their boats missing the start. A 420, two Musto Skiffs and The Kipper. The racing was much the same, uneventful and slow. The most exciting part of the day was a near protest from a laser 2000 to The Kipper. “Protest, get out my F$%&ing way” came the cry. Not wanting to get involved in a rule talk. The Kipper's crew gave the reply. “Unless you wont a rule 69, I'de let us stay exactly where we are” Which was greeted by a silence. Objective achieved. Time to pack up and say our goodbyes. A quick chat with the 3000 girls as they finished tying down their steed, prize giving and hop in the car. Event done, little wind but good over all. Time to go home and sleep. Or so I though.

Sunday Night. Home at last, open the boot to remove my gear. S**T! wheres my gear? ow no………. it's in the dinghy park. Quick on the phone to mothist Alex Adams, weymouth local. He scrambled like a jet fighter, to find a very dark and very empty boat park.

Monday. Alarm at 8:59, not what you want after a student event. To ring WPNSA reception. “Nothing has been found” awww. “But it is logged” not overly comforting having realised you dads GPS is in your bag next to your overly priced prescription sunglasses. Not forgetting tool box, mast ram and spinnaker. Two phone calls and an email to BUSA. Still nothing. It seemed that the only person who was going to look for it, was me. But Weymouth is a long way away from Southampon when you're on foot. So I struck a deal with a car owning friend, a trip to Weymouth in return for taking his place on a 707 for the weekend. He drove a hard bargain, but having calculated the replacement cost of my bag I agreed. This took off the pressure slightly until I was later informed that the deal had been changed. Instead of going early on Wednesday, we would being going late in the evening to coincide with my drivers other errand of picking up a friend from Bournemouth airport. Not ideal, searching in the darkness when reception would be closed. So I turned to the Cherub community, knowing I wouldn't be left in my current pickle. The Hero of the day turned out to be our fixtures officer, Tim Noyce.

Wednesday. Off we went, at break neck speed in the Noyce 'family wagon'. Both parties had thought the trip would be quick and easy but it seemed that lots of old people had been mistaken and had gone out for their Sunday drive on the wrong day! After a slight navigation error we ended up in down town Weymouth looking at a nice fish and chip restaurant, but this would have to wait, there was a mission to be accomplished. So on we pressed. 25 minutes of boat park scouring revealed nothing. So off to the reception I had been phoning all week. “Hello” “How can I help” said a voice i didn't recognise from over the phone. So I explained my story, or at least started to. Until I was interrupted. “is it a black kit bag with a grey kite bag” “YES!” was my reply. “WHERE?!” under the stairs of the outside balcony. A fast and very exciting walk round the site of the building and my kit was there. “Where's my rope bag?” “Catch that sea gull!” Which was easily achieved, with bit of a shout and a sprint and it dropped the bag. Mission complete. So back to the reception to express our thanks, and to confirm dates for the 2007 nationals and we were done. Off to the nice eatery we had spotted earlier for a celebratory meal. Thanks again must go to the hero of the day, Tim Noyce

Pastatoide

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:35 +0000

Pastatoide

Pasta Frenzy 2666 Pastatoide was the first cherub to go to France. The boat is now with Laurent and Olivia Thouvenin in Aix-en-Provence, South of France.

These photos show the neat self-tacker track-ends, the excellent Norwegian Blue-a-like paint job and the new 49er style ratchet system.

Sponsor for 2007 Scottish National Championships

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:32 +0000

Sponsor for 2007 Scottish National Championships

The cherub class is pleased to announce a new sponsor for our 2007 Scottish National Championships: Magellan Flags and Textiles. The company, based in East Lothian, Scotland has kindly agreed to provide some prizes.

Weston Winter Series

On Saturday 18th November 2006 the Cherubs returned to Weston SC for the Winter series. We were the most numerous doublehander present, and the accepting atmosphere, excellent race management, suberb water and easy launching make this club real Cherub hotspot - quite apart from the proximity to Southampton Solent University!

The first race was a drifter in the bright winter sun. There was fetch from the club line to the post and then a beat to the furthest small green channel marker buoy “Moorhead” followed by a near run to the post 'boundary'. This provided lots of opportunities for misjudging the tide to get round the windward mark and again at the bottom, resulting in early drops and beating to the leeward mark for some! Atum Bom lead the way in all of the above, but somehow managed to finish in the lead - only to get no gun! So the Cherub bullet went to Shiny Beast.

The second race had a little more breeze and the flat water allowed those with T-foils to fully max it upwind. There was even some T foil use downwind. This was recorded by the safety boat driver and we'd like to see the footage! (If you are that person please will_lee us). Atum Bom came out on top followed by the unrealistically quick The Flying Kipper.

The next mass attendance is on the 2nd of december when we will have our own video kit - so be there!

Cheesey!

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:35 +0000

Cheesey!

Cheese Before Bedtime is steadily moving towards being radicalised….

Update 23rd November 2006

…and you can tell John Reid not to worry!

Cardinal Sin Update

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:35 +0000

Cardinal Sin Update

The first of the Cardinal Sin boats is screaming through its production and looking very slick indeed.

Interested? Speak to mike@teamaardvark.org for a production boat out of the box at a very reasonable price.

Weston Filming Weekend

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:25:09 +0000

Weston Filming Weekend

A group of 6 cherubbers, 2 trainee cherubbers and 4 cherubs battled the elements to capture previously unseen angles on Cherub sailing on video.

Saturday dawned with very little wind but rigging went ahead and boats were launched. Some innovative camera techniques were employed from the Cherubs (not the most stable of platforms!). Boats were packed up and then the Cherubbers went off in search of food, boat bimbling and a suitable television for footage viewing. The footage showed much promise with many high quality multi-boat sequences collected between the obligatory crotch-shots and “Is it on?” questions (including one with an answer of “No”).

Sleep was interrupted for some due to the extreme winds battering the south coast and the rest of the UK. We knew we were in for a big one come Sunday morning as forecasts had suggested anywhere from force 4 to storm force 11! On arrival at Weston it was discovered that racing had been cancelled. Team Flying Kipper threw caution to the wind and rigged up like true heroes on the quest for the perfect footage. Their sail was short lived as the 35+ knot gusts battered them before they could get the rudder locked down and after some exquisite boat handling they got nailed and came in with grins, honour satisfied and no breakages! Whilst all this took place, those wimpy yachts taking part in the Hamble winter series decided to abandon. Below is a shot of a why.

We encourage all of you to take as much Cherub footage as you can. Examples of crazy footage can be seen on the Videos page using techniques such as 'head cam' and 'spreader vision' (very simple to achieve, simply ductape a waterproof digital camera to your spreaders and go sailing!)

Bilbo!

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:35 +0000

Bilbo!

I'm sure you all know that France is a hive of Cherub-related activity. This is this weekend's progress in Paris: Ghislain Devouthon has finished the hull and shaped the deck. The scary part was cutting the hull to length - a big time for any cherub-builder.

Ghislain was very lucky to have his dog Bilbo to help him - Bilbo having taken time out from his busy schedule of wetsuit chewing, pavement polluting, old lady charming and world-class sexual experimentation to be there. As you can see from the picture, he bore up under the strain quite well.

Courage les Français!

28th Dec 2006

C-tech mast received with some damages :(

History / Poetry Corner

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:35 +0000

History / Poetry Corner

Whilst visiting his grandparents in Cornwall this weekend (9th / 10th Dec 2006), Stu Hopson (Sweet Dreams' keeper)was surprised to find out about a poem his grandad wrote about a race in the mid to late 1960’s on the river Crouch, featuring a cherub named “The Wizard of Oz”.

After much digging through the many poems which he has written over the years, the poem ‘The Jinx and the Wizard of Oz’ was found, and Jack Hopson (Stu’s grandad) has very kindly given permission for everyone to read and enjoy this poem:

THE JINX AND THE WIZARD OF OZ

1                                                                            
Regatta day, and lots of boats - Trevor Austin was doing well . . .          
But then the wind got up a bit (In fact it blew like Merry Hell)             
Whilst leading on the final leg his Cherub on a flat out plane               
Quite unprovoked his well-known Jinx did raise its shaggy head again

2                                                                            
The nearest rival, not in sight — (But many boats were moored about)         
While planing for the final mark A puff did lift the Cherub’s snout          
With extra speed she shot ahead But there was no real space in view          
There did not seem to be a hole Quite wide enough for boat and crew

3                                                                            
“Our Hero” looked with urgent haste To try and find some sort of space       
(Apart from lots of moored up craft, He’d caught up with another race)       
The reaching spinny flew well out Mounted on extending boom                  
A Cherub in a wind like this Really needs a lot of room!

4                                                                            
Just then appeared a slender chance Not much, but then was ‘twas all he’d got
Two moored up boats lay “end-to-end” Between the two our helmsman shot       
He had to luff up quick and hard A tricky move, as all could see             
His crew made comments rather like: “There are places I would rather be.”

5                                                                            
A loop-the-loop, or similar Quite a feat at such a speed                     
Assisted p’raps by desperate strength That sometimes comes in times of need. 
Then a rush to get the spinny down The turning mark is quite close by        
But in their haste, a minor slip— And whoops, the halyard was let fly.

6                                                                            
The sail went flying out in front The boat still holding on a plane          
The famous Jinx did raise its head And problems reared up strong again.      
A cruising craft on engine slow Had not been noticed up ‘til now             
Until it loomed up strong in view— A stainless pulpit on its bow.

7                                                                            
Too late poor Trevor spotted this And all could see, he was aghast           
A violent swerve just got him by But the flapping sail could not get past.   
It caught the pulpit fair and square And then it wrapped so well around      
It brought the Cherub to a halt As if he’d run the thing aground.

8                                                                               
With instant action Trevor leaped Upon the deck where sail was caught           
With fevered haste the lad did work As with the straining cloth he fought       
The owner of the boarded craft Did watch the while and quietly curse            
And all could see he was incensed For now his craft moved in reverse.

9                                                                               
With wind behind the Cherub’s main The forces pushing her were strong           
Despite the cruiser’s powered strain She by her stern was forced along . . .    
At last the clinging sail was freed But still it seemed the Jinx would win . . .
The boat pulled off—left helm behind His only option . . . jump and swim

10                                                                              
He caught and held the Cherub’s bow Crew still aboard—the boat pressed on       
Ahead, a tender tied to buoy, The Jinx’s work was not yet done . . .            
A spinnaker halyard dragging out Did catch around the mooring chain             
Helm in water—crew in boat The Cherub snagged up fast again.

11                                                                              
They tugged and heaved to no avail ’Til in the row-boat climbed the crew        
From vantage point, he now enjoyed He soon could see just what to do—           
The Cherub freed, and moved away And quite unmanned, before our eyes            
She slewed around with force of wind Her boom went down, the boat capsized

12                                                                              
The helmsman still held on the bow To right the boat he set his mind            
Then clambered in prepared to sail And found he’d left his crew behind          
Still standing he, in dinghy tied (And hadn’t even wet his feet)                
So back he sailed to get his lad Single-handed on a beat

13                                                                              
Meanwhile a cruiser had arrived To collect their tender left afloat             
The crew on board was much surprised At this intruder in their boat             
Their mooring picked up nice and neat They helped this fella in their craft     
And standing there with still dry feet He must have felt a little daft.

14                                                                              
The Cherub (not a stable beast) In such a wind could not close in               
But sailing near as he could get— This time the crew must jump and swim . . .   
Now re-united—crew of two Continued on and finished race                        
And such a lead they had before That still they finished in first place!

WRITTEN BY JACK HOPSON (MID TO LATE 1960s)

The poem just goes to show that Cherubs have always been entertaining to watch and race against!

(Our records reveal boat 2417 was owned by T. Austin and called “Wizard of Oz”, so the above is not fiction)

Commit this!

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:35 +0000

Commit this!

The first Cardinal Sin is out! (and proud!)

'Subtle Knife', named in honour of the Philip Pullman book of the same name came out into the daylight for the first time today. This boat looks the mutz and has the pedigree - but there are some really special new features to come.

(watch this space)

Troublesome Priest

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:35 +0000

Troublesome Priest

This is a detail view of Subtle Knife which is looking radder by the day.

Cheddar Gorgeous!

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:35 +0000

Cheddar Gorgeous!

Paul Croote's Dog, Cheese Before Bedtime has been undergoing a comprehensive refit this winter. She saw the light of day for the first time yesterday for the fitting of a jib track.

Update 28th December 2006

Largs SC Round Cumbraes Race

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:01:36 +0000

Largs SC Round Cumbraes Race

The 2006 Cherub Nationals are to be held in Largo Bay on the 30th August to 1st September. The sailing starts on the Wednesday and as it is going to take a day to travel up there you will probably need to take Tuesday off. Now who wants to go in on Monday when the rest of the week is to be spent cherubing.

The simple option is to take the full week off and come up to Scotland early for some extra practice. Now you could just go up to Largo Bay and stay there for the week but for a small amount of extra driving you could have much more fun. The Sat 26th of August is the start of Largs Regatta Week with standard around the cans racing on the Saturday starting at about 1 O'clock. This is followed on the Sunday by a race around the island of Cumbraes. The Island is about six miles long so to sail around it is between 13 and 17 miles. The race is open to both Yachts and dinghies with the yachts going around both Big and Little islands, the Dinghy's just do the Big Island and normally start between 10 and 11AM. The course record is held at the moment by an 18 foot skiff that got around so quickly that the race committee were not expecting them. The race is also done in different classes by slower boats like Gp14's and Toppers. So it should be no problem for Cherubs. To get up to Scotland from anywhere south of Birmingham the best bet is to go up the M6 then the M74 which takes you up towards Glasgow. Even if your destination is on the East coast (Like Largo Bay) this is the best route as the A1 on the east coast is a slow winding nightmare of caravans and single carriageway driving. On the Other hand the M74 is a majestic three lane motorway that sweeps through the boarders with hardly a car in sight.

What this means is that a detour to Largs does not add a huge extra distance or time compared with going straight to Largo Bay. To help there will be full directions on how to get to both Largs and Largo Bay in the Pre-Nationals newsletter.

More information on entry at Largs SC Website
Report from Round Cumbraes 2005
Back to Events

Getting to Largs

Getting to Largs from the south the easiest way is probably to drive to Glasgow and then follow the M8 through the centre of Glasgow. Just after Glasgow Airport leave the motorway following signs for Irvine. The road changes from a dual to a single carriageway and you need to be in the right hand lane following the signs to Irvine. After about 5 miles you will reach a sort of right turn/roundabout signposted for Lochwinnoch Take this road (A760) down the hill and keep on this windy road till you reach Kilbirnie. In Kilbirnie you need to turn right at the first roundabout and then left at the second.

You are still on the A760 and this continues past some reservoirs on the left hand side till you get to Largs. You enter Largs down a steep hill where you reach a set of traffic lights. The main body of the town is to the right but you need to turn left here which will take you out of the south side of the town.

As you leave the 30 limit take time to admire the Lark flowerbed on your right. The Marina is now visible ahead and to your right, so take the next right turn over the railway bridge. The Sailing club is a large building on the front, there are several tarmac and gravel parking areas.

Largs regatta 2006

Cherub Scottish Championships

Results:

Atum Bom; Will and Lucy lee
Squid Pro Quo; John Hacket and Robert Kennaugh
Primal Scream; Phil Alderson and Carol Low
Lost in Space; Tim Unerman and Joe Siman
Dangerous Strawberry; Stu Tinner and Oliver Hobson

Aquamarina; Andy Lang and Tom Gruitt Rtd
Sweet Dreams; Stu Hopson and Tim Noyce Rtd
Cheese Before Bed Time; Ben Howett and Calum Reid Rtd

For photos see http://www.pfmpictures.co.uk/ for contact details and email Marc Turner for availibility