Friday, 1 December 2006
For immediate release, euro champs
Triumph for local man
full results at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BLOKARTERS-UK/files/
Cornwall has a new European Champion !
At the European Blokart Championships held at Gwithian November 25th/26th, Howard Smith of Feock sailed
consistently well to wrest the European title from previous
holder Nicolas Boel of Belgium.
Blokarts, these three wheeled go-karts with a sail are very versatile and apparently simple craft that take little knowledge to sail, but great skill to sail well at world class level. Spectators and competitors alike at Gwithian were gifted a perfect selection of race weather making for spectacular performance.
Race officer Graham Bobin of local company Speedsail UK (also distributor for Blokarts in this country) set testing courses in challenging conditions, technical course racing on Saturday and quickfire downwind slalom on Sunday. The weather on Saturday made consistent sailing performance even more difficult, throwing sun, rain, hail, howling gusts and deep lulls down the course. Through all this Smith sailed coolly in tight competition, putting in a consistent performance on his home beach.
This is the first time the European Championships have been held in this country, Blokarts only being produced since 1999 and in the UK for about 3 years. The European title has been held in Belgium for some time, so this result opens competition up which can only help the sport.
Race Officer Graham Bobin said : "It's a great result for this young sport as well as Cornwall. We've had a significant number of people spending money in county out of season, we've proved Hayle as a World class venue for this sport, and now we have the new British and European Champion."
Chairman of governing body the BLSA, Chris Moore, added : "We hope to set up a full national race circuit for this growing sport to encourage all levels of sailor to compete. It's a great, safe, way to learn sailing for ages 8 to 80, with the youngest competitor this weekend at 9 and the oldest past retirement age. As the controls are all by hand and body weight distribution we even had room for a wooden leg and a paraplegic !"
You'll be able to see Blokarts at the London Boat Show Stand 99 in January, but if you can't wait that long www.speedsailuk.com will help you into one. There's more on the racing at www.europeanblokartchampionships.com .
Then watch this space, this is beginning to look like a Cornish success !
More info from : Rob Jewell, 07771-542220
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Sent: Friday, 1 December 2006 9:21 p.m.
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Hey Guys and apologies to the guys who are trying to unsubscribe, it will happen soon.
Anyway, the Blokarters from the Bay Club are heading up to Tairua tomorrow to catch the 12 midday low tide, for a look-see. Westerly winds are forecasted and it is a huge sailable area from 9am to 4pm.
Feel free to just turn up.
Cheers,
Don
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Just a reminder of the unsubscribe e-mail address: (Address removed)
This list is a replacement for the Smartgroups list, closed yesterday More details of that and the functions of this list were sent out earlier today by me -----Original Message-----
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Get Over it you guys . Wait for it to be sorted . No-one asked for it but your constant retorts are adding up to more Spam.I am sure it will be sorted PB
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Please please direct any login queries off list to (Address removed)
You should have got an e-mail a few days ago with your new login details (Called rather unhelpfully Automated Response from Server), but if you can't find it, someone at the above address can help
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I to have tried to get my pass word ,enter email address to be asked what is memorable data,if i cant remember my pass word how the hell are you likely to remember what your memorable data was From: Rosemary Wilson [(Address removed)]
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Subject: RE: [blokart] unsuscribe meyeah my prob too. all the eems seem to be going to all of us eh? i used logon a couple of years ago and no idea what i used so same as you. maybe someone who does remember can let them know what is going on? i have emailed to blokart to ask them to sort it out. just hope our IT man asleep till then!!! -----Original Message-----
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Subject: RE: [blokart] unsuscribe meHI Dave
It is difficult when you can’t log on as I can’t remember the pass word / different to what I written down. Any other ideas on how to unscribe Cheers
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It really is not difficult to unsubscribe from this as far as I can see. Just go to the website. To make it easier I include the link: http://www.mailspaces.com/spaces/blokart/+leave Good bye.
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Nigel,
I'd just like to say thanks to you and the crew at mailspaces for rescuing the forum from the demise of smartgroups.
To those who are receiving these emails and no longer wish to, please have a little patience whilst you read the instructions below on how to unsubscribe or change your settings.
For all the rest of us who are interested, I look forward to the robust debate on hot topics such as whether black sails go faster than white ones 'cause they absorb more light and therefore pull the kart along, or whether Don's flash fluro one has any advantages other than helping find his kart in the dark...
Anyway, thanks again to you Nigel for allowing us to use your great service.
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From: Nigel Cannings
To: (Address removed)
Sent: Fri Dec 01 23:23:12 2006
Subject: [blokart] This new list, and how to use it
I am one of the system administrators at MailSpaces, and having seen some of the e-mails flying about I thought it would be useful to give a quick overview of how the system works, how to change your preferences, how to unsubscribe, and how you got here.
So first things first – This list has been moved wholesale from SmartGroups by your group administrator – The SG list closed yesterday <http://www.mailspaces.com/spaces/blokart/discussion/events/20061130> , and was shut by Orange UK – We had made an offer to rescue the service when its closure was announced, which for internal reasons at Orange was turned down, so we have offered assistance to former SG list owners to migrate out by providing an archive download tool. We have not insisted at all that people migrate to mailspaces.com.
Anyhow, the way we had to get the archives out, and the members across, means that some people will appear to have had their preferences changed, and so are receiving e-mail when they didn't before.
There are two ways of changing preferences, one via the web interface, one by e-mail, explained below.
I'd like to make one thing really clear if I may – The old messages have been transferred to a members only ("Open") space – That means that no-one except the members of this group have access to the old messages. If you have suddenly started getting spam, it's not our fault. There is a spam epidemic at the moment, with volumes having gone through the roof. It is a co-incidence that the SG group has moved at the same time <http://www.mailspaces.com/spaces/blokart/discussion/tags/same-time> , but I really don't want anyone to go away with the impression that we are a bunch of spammers, or that we allow e-mail addresses to be misused, because we're not, and we don't.
Anyhow, you were sent a user name and password for the web interface a few days ago – It may have got caught in a spam trap as these things do from time to time, particularly if you use a web-based account such as Hotmail.
If you don't have your details, and you want them (you'll need them to see the discussion messages online), please let us know at (Address removed), and we'll send them to you.
So, e-mail first:
To join by e-mail – (Address removed)
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To change delivery preferences –
(Address removed)
Include in the e-mail the word delivery,
followed by one of the following:
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You can find more out about e-mail commands at http://www.mailspaces.com/help/articles/email
Web:
Go to http://www.mailspaces.com/spaces/blokart/preferences/
User basics: Set your user information
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We also allows feeds, such as news items, or items from other groups, to be added, and linked in the same way
I'm sorry if some people are not happy with the change – We could only work with the material we had, which was e-mail addresses, and the message archive
I hope that these instructions will help you use this community better.
If you do have any problems, please e-mail me direct, or use (Address removed)
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