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Florida | Awsome wipeout pics of very experienced teams giving it their all to save it = tough on the ankle til the point of getting hurled forward = good job finding a soft place to land. Boat handling, yes, but tough to handle when you've departed the vessle  ALL HANDS ON DECK! | | |  Re: F18 Worlds Started Yesterday
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David Ingram F18 USA 242 http://www.solarwind.solar"Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda "Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent" - Two sista's I overheard in the hall "You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a complete idiot, but it helps"
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Long Beach, California | Robbie got a 4 this morning! JC got a 15!
Breeze is light again...
John Williams
- The harder you practice, the luckier you get -
Gary Player, pro golfer
After watching Lionel Messi play, I realize I need to sail harder.
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David Ingram F18 USA 242 http://www.solarwind.solar"Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda "Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent" - Two sista's I overheard in the hall "You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a complete idiot, but it helps"
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Clermont, FL, USA | Robbie got a 4 this morning! JC got a 15!
Breeze is light again... Sweet!
David Ingram F18 USA 242 http://www.solarwind.solar"Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda "Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent" - Two sista's I overheard in the hall "You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a complete idiot, but it helps"
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Roanoke Island ,N.C. | Robbie got a 4 this morning! JC got a 15!
Breeze is light again... Where are you getting your info?
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea
Isak Dinesen
If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most.
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Clermont, FL, USA | Robbie got a 4 this morning! JC got a 15!
Breeze is light again... Where are you getting your info? Tracking -> Provisional Results
David Ingram F18 USA 242 http://www.solarwind.solar"Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda "Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent" - Two sista's I overheard in the hall "You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a complete idiot, but it helps"
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Long Beach, California | Race 6 in sequence under a black flag...
You can see Jill, Robbie's wife, in the blue and white shirt in the shade next to the O'Neil tent.
John Williams
- The harder you practice, the luckier you get -
Gary Player, pro golfer
After watching Lionel Messi play, I realize I need to sail harder.
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Clermont, FL, USA | What they did to O Fortuna in that video is a travesty. The original score would have been much more fitting and hard hitting at the end.
A+ on the video
F--- on the soundtrack. BOooo.
Pipe down you. Watch the video and eat your popcorn.
David Ingram F18 USA 242 http://www.solarwind.solar"Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda "Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent" - Two sista's I overheard in the hall "You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a complete idiot, but it helps"
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| Best sailing video I've ever seen.
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Long Beach, California | That was one of the other WePro boats - there are three. Look for the Stars and Stripes on the mainsail - that's our guy. Both fleets, underway in last race of the qualifying.
John Williams
- The harder you practice, the luckier you get -
Gary Player, pro golfer
After watching Lionel Messi play, I realize I need to sail harder.
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David Ingram F18 USA 242 http://www.solarwind.solar"Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda "Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent" - Two sista's I overheard in the hall "You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a complete idiot, but it helps"
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| Great job with the updates David!
OK, out of sheer boredom, and/or jealousy, one thing I am keenly aware of when looking at the video and pictures is that there are teams that REALLY get it when it comes to brand imaging for their sponsors.
Obviously, you need a single, big-daddy sponsor to pull something off as well as Team Tommy Bahama did here back for the Worrell, and here are my picks for the best ones I've seen so far for this event:
These guys take the top for branding the whole boat and sails (not just slapping stickers on white hulls and sails):
bulthhaup
Holmatro
Henri Llyod
These guys did a good job with relatively simple stickers (no custom hull or sail colors):
Baskalis
BNR Watersports did OK, but the sail graphics could have been better.
Nissan, McDonalds and some others did OK, but didn't have as clean a presentation (other sponsors/other info plastered on the sails).
The boat with the watch on the main and Gill on the jib looked pretty good too.
Yes, I saw the NED boat with the chick in the bikini, but what the hell was the company they were representing?
Overall, I think we can learn a lot from the Euros, some of them can really pull it together well with the right sponsor ($$$).
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Long Beach, California | That's not a bikini, Mike - it's lingerie. I love that sponsor - check out their site.
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- The harder you practice, the luckier you get -
Gary Player, pro golfer
After watching Lionel Messi play, I realize I need to sail harder.
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