Vinnie Zammit

Does anyone know where you can purchase a starter system, or an APP that can be used with a blue tooth speaker. Be most grateful as our system, is on the blink

They certainly do put on a good event, only problem is that the ground keeps jumping up and tripping me over, (well that is my excuse). Latest is, that a week ago the surgeons decided that they wanted to do another replacement. Needless to say i cannot repeat my answer to their idea. But it was good. Especially as it has been 2 1/2 years since the last operation. Anyway, life goes on and can i wish all the best to Dartmoor SC. Vin

hi Steve, if you let me have your No, i will ring and we can have a chat about it. vinnie.zammit@gmail.com

Does anyone know where i can purchase a Start Timer. The Norwich one has given up.

Hi John, thanks for your interpretation of the incident, interesting that talking to Graham Bantock, he was of the same opinion as you. P.S to the incident Boat B withdrew the protest as he felt that it would be wrong to penalise boat A as he had done nothing wrong. Maybe he was not such a bad sportsman after all.

During the final part of a race, the leading 2 boats had to round the last mark to port and go directly to the finish line on a dead run. The leading boat (A) rounded the mark approximately 2 lengths in front and instead of going to the finish line went towards another buoy. After he had travelled some 2 to 3 boat lengths from the buoy the race officer called out and told him that he was going in the wrong direction, he immediately altered course to the finish line. The 2nd placed boat (B) immediately called protest for outside help. Boat (A) went on to win the race by half a length from (B). Would be interesting if John Ball or other serious Jurors / Judges voiced their opinion.

Hi Gents, thought i would let you know that i am back into 6M and am currently building a Cerebus, looks interesting.

Hi all, bet you all thought that i had given up. Well i have not and if i can work out how to do it, i will post a photo. I have now nearly finished the hull and have just married the Hull, Fin and keel. Hopefully i will float it later in my Ozzie dogs padling pool. Have all the fittings for the rigs and Terry Burton has kindly volunteered to help me put the rigs together as i don't have much of a clue. Will keep you posted.

Boat all planked up and readyfor fibre glassing. Suprised myself as it looks quite nice, but must admit it was a real pig to do and had to use a little bit of filler. Originaly i was going to coat it in carbon but was advised to use ordinary cloth. So after more advice we are using 80gr cloth for both sides, My mentor Allan Bright is ariving this morning to give me a hand to glass the hull. I am then going to leave it for a couple of weeks whilst i go to Malta for a break. On my return will coat the interior. Question for all you PRO BUILDERS! Is 80 gr cloth enough or do i need to put on a second layer.

Thanks for the welcome Mike. Plus your offer of advise. Just been out this morning to get my bits and pieces to start the build. I intend doing it in 3mm Balsa with a Carbon outer and Glass inner coat. Havn't even thought about rigs and sails, all in time. Will keep you informed on my progress.

Sorry Gents it's not 4 but 5 that are being built. I have aquired plans and already made shadows. To be honest i must be mad as i have never sailed a 6M let alone built one, but i wanted to get into the class, so what better way than building your own. I have Alan Bright and Terry Burton advising me, but hope you don't mind if i pick your brains as you are at the sharp end.

Sorry Gents it's not 4 but 5 that are being built. I have aquired plans and already made shadows. To be honest i must be mad as i have never sailed a 6M let alone built one, but i wanted to get into the class, so what better way than building your own. I have Alan Bright and Terry Burton advising me, but hope you don't mind if i pick your brains as you are at the sharp end.

Thanks John. I can confess i was the Race officer and it was put to me that i should have had a General Recall. Humbug!

Interesting incident that happened just last weekend. Boat A was approaching the Start line on Starboard, with about 5-6 seconds to go. Boat B was approaching the start line on Port at the same time. Just before the start, boat B, (still on Port) collided with boat A (still on starboard) just forward of amidships on Boat A's leeward side and forced both himself and boat A over the line. The start signal sounded and the principle race officer called both boats over the line.The rest of the fleet started correctly and sailed on. Both boats returned back over the start line and re started. Boat B after doing his penalty turn. Was the Race Officer correct, in his actions.

Thank you John for making the situation clear to everyone. I am sure that this is a point that we can now all learn from. Needless to say we all know what the event was and who the PRO was, it was little old me. But i would like to make a couple of comments on the matter. At the time of the whistle being blown, i was strolling through the slippery mud, on my very unsteady pins, towards the finishing line area. When i was approximately 15 metres from the race committee member who was responsible for the finish line, i heard the whistle blow and realizing the error immediately and shouted out "carry on sailing" unfortunately i think this was in Dave Alston's ear. This shout was accompanied by various other shouts basically all saying the same thing. I am not prepared to say what position boats were in at the time of the incident, or indeed voice my opinion as to wether Peter was Disadvantaged to a lesser or greater degree, or wether he should have known that the race was not finished and should have carried on. What i will say is that the RC were at fault and as PRO if needs be, i will gladly fall on my Sword. OUCH! Furthermore after the race was concluded, Peter and i had a long chat about the matter and may i add that he was a perfect Gentleman in our conversation and also in withdrawing any idea of a redress in order that the meeting could go on without interruption. We also both agreed that he would write to the Forum in order to obtain John Ball's opinion. Thank you John Lastly David may i and the organising committee thank you for saying such nice things about the meeting, it makes organising an event such as this worthwhile. Vinnie