Cardiff 2013

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Cardiff 2013

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Just wanted to say a great big thank you to all those involved in the organisation of the Cardiff event. Even the weather was booked, looking at little sun burnt at the moment :D

Also a thanks to all those you attended making it one to remember!

Sorry we haven't got any pictures due to having a thoroughly great time. :wot: Hopefully somebody else will
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I will second that, Fantastic event and wonderful company.
Chris,Penny, Mike, David and everyone involved many thanks for making it happen.
Will certainly be there next year, all we need is the sun to shine.

All the best.

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Thank you to everyone involved in organising and running this fab event, and for for making my girls and I feel so welcome over the weekend, looking forward to next year already.
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Cracking time as ever, many many thanks to the team that put it all together for all of the hard work that goes in to such a fantastic event :notworthy:

I had a fantastic time and even won a prize for showing off, something that never happened at school.

Seem to have happened across a shark in the shallows of Tiger Bay (Bae Teigr) luckily I had a spare with me.
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Blimey, I bet the shark was a mess! :hilarious:

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Family rapier says thanks very much for everyone's hard work - i know it's a tremendous effort of organisation and I enjoyed very moment. Great to meet new faces esp. haventaclue who has the kind of issues i have with restorations. Thanks to the recovery team & those who had to get home,got delayed and had
to be back to work this morning!

For those that got woken by my alarm this am, apologies.
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Many thanks to all the organisers who did a cracking job this year (again)! Sasha and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, it's got to go down as one of my best boating events yet :thumbsup: thanks to Darren, Rod and Nick as well for the rides :wot: although its been and added another 3 boats to my wish list now :giggle:
I've got lots of pics to trawl through but here's the first few http://s40.photobucket.com/user/dan9487 ... t=3&page=1
If anyone would like some originals sent through then just PM me an email address and I can send you some :thumbsup:
There should be more to follow.

Thanks again for a brilliant long weekend :perfect:
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Fantastic Rally, as always, great to meet new faces and meet up with old friends. Special thanks to the organizers, you know who you are , you are a formidable team who took care of every detail, Great!! :woo:

Hopefully see you at York :wot:

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An absolute blinder of a weekend as far as we were concerned, great company & great fun. There was a good show of new members & 'new' boats, all of which were extremely welcome. Good to see a few more big boats there as well. :woo:

As others have said, many thanks to Chris & Penny, Mike T & David K for all their efforts behind the scenes & over the weekend generally. Thanks as well to to all the others working away behind the scenes & with the recovery operation.

Looking forward to 2014 with new members taking over the running of it from Chris, Penny & Mike.

PS I hope my two girls were not too irritating to you with all their mischief! Please let me know if they were.
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water_buoy wrote:I've got lots of pics to trawl through but here's the first few http://s40.photobucket.com/user/dan9487 ... t=3&page=1Dan
Great set of pictures Dan, nice to see some pictures of my boat moving! :D :chuffed: :thumbsup:
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