derrick
The Glue that binds us together.
- Location
- On the edge of London
Did a lot of boating in my youth, power and sail. Came across a couple of pics while i was searching for something in our loft.
Things you did when you where younger?
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Jameshow
Veteran
I used to regularly sail this boat was a hoot in a gale!
https://hamble.boatshed.com/hartley__fijian_50-boat-165511.html
https://hamble.boatshed.com/hartley__fijian_50-boat-165511.html
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Did Tae Kwon Do into my mid 30's. Went up to Sheffield for a fight and the lad I was facing was huge. I felt like Apollo Creed stepping into the ring with Ivan Drago.
Not only did I lose, but I was black and blue and sore and stiff for days afterwards. That was when I made the decision to call it a day.
Not only did I lose, but I was black and blue and sore and stiff for days afterwards. That was when I made the decision to call it a day.
As a 14 year old I tried boxing. I took just one good punch on the nose and decided it wasn't for me.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Skate boarding from 1976. First skate board was a skate with a plank of wood my dad attached. We used to do the double thing where your feet were on a mates board and theirs on yours. Then hurtle down hill and try and get round corner at bottom. Holding onto back of milk float whilst on your board was also a thing.
dicko
Guru
- Location
- Derbyshire
Scouts and before that Cubs great character builder plus you learnt to fend for yourself and organise things. Learnt camping skills and survived for two days without food and shelter for my Backwoodsman badge, which is like getting your Para wings.
numbnuts
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
Kayaking and sailing (yachts not boats)
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
I wrote a lot of really bad poetry; I was that sort of teenager.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
You are a Vogon and I claim my £5
Flick of the Elbow
Guru
- Location
- Edinburgh
Cycling 
(a lot more than I do these days)
(a lot more than I do these days)
Ditto, and I earned a Bushman's Thong! Can't quite remember what I had to do to get one.
HarryTheDog
Guru
- Location
- Basildon Essex
I used to race one of these with my son , Dart Hawk F18 . Gave it up when he found women and booze. I once did a coaching course with one of the Olympic Tornado boys. He reckoned we were both mental as we broke the mast foot by putting so much pressure through it in a force 6. Also crashed it a few times with him my son went straight through the foresail and I landed on him. We then sailed a Dart 18 ( less sail area) whilst our boat was being fixed and sailed it underwater ( both hulls fully under water) sailing it down wind in a gale. It did pop up again quite spectacularly.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
I went cycling a lot and dossing with a pal rather than camping as we had no money for equipment. Later in my teens kayaking and fairly sedate sailing. Late teens I became involved in the management side of SYHA ie the entertainments committee which was more about recruitment really.
About the same time got into politics.
About the same time got into politics.
wiggydiggy
Guru
I did the full trip Beavers through to Venture Scouts, once in Scouts however I learnt that the Jamborees were just an excuse to get pissed and try to cop off lol.
Badges I was really bad, our whole troop was, got a few but none of the hard ones.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
WOW - just WOW
I used to sail a lot - but always older dinghies
Did sail some modern stuff (for the 1990s) on holidays in Greece and Turkey - that was fun
and did manage to sink a catamaran
that was the first time I met my ex - I think the Gods were trying to tell me something!
(actually it didn;t sink - but it counts because only the mast and sail were still out of the water!
Also - when younger - we used to go to a small river valley place near my friends house
We had a challenge - start at the top of the hill and go down the dusty path as fast as you can
through either gap at the bottom - tree in the middle - tree on the right and lampost on the left
then across the single plank bridge and see how far up the hill you can get
NO PEDALLING after your wheel hits the bridge - so it is all down to spee and smoothness around the corner
Anyway - then was in my teens - in my 30s I took the dog there for a walk for old times sake
YEA GODS that gap was damn small
how on Earth did we get through that gap - with proper handlebars - at that sort of speed and not DIE!!!
and as for the bend after the bridge!!!
and all this in the days before Mountain Bikes and knobbly tyres - so we just had road tyres
and my mate had a dragster - like a Chopper but even less stable and steerable!!!!
