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  sandbagger.org: History
Sandbaggers were found on the sound, east to Boston, down to the Delaware, on the Great Lakes around Erie, and in Southern cities like New Orleans, Charleston, and Savannah.
To a fleet of sandbaggers could be added a few springboard sharpies, some tuckups (now being revived on the Delaware), and some log canoes (whose racing never died) for a grand festival.
In a relatively lightly built, widebeamed, shallow-draft boat with as large a rig as the sandbagger’s (her sail area is 1,136 sq ft), the stresses imposed on the centerboard trunk are immense.
www.sandbagger.org /history.shtml   (5427 words)

  
 Is the sandbagger population growin? - Mtbr.com Forums
The 3 or 4 sandbaggers in beginners were so far ahead of most of the field that it was obvious they were not where they belonged.
Sandbaggers are there, and though winning would no doubt be cool, it's not my primary reason for showing up.
I guess until there are strict and fair rules enacted, you'll always have sandbaggers that believe it's better to have 1st place in Beginnners than a 10th place in a higher catagory, regardless of whether its "fair" or not.
forums.mtbr.com /showthread.php?p=25493   (3950 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Sandbaggers Collection Set 1: DVD: David Robb,Harry Webster,David Glyder,Michael O'Hagan,Richard ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A Sandbagger may spend most of his time "shuffling paper from in-tray to out-tray," but once in the field on assignment it often proves to be an ugly - and ultimately deadly - job.
The Sandbaggers are George Smiley pushed past The Circus and the Old School Ties by the institutional thrust of modern spycraft; they are James Bond shorn of the pyrotechnics, the carnality and the wisecracks.
Most episodes of "The Sandbaggers" are not so majestic, but all are impelled by crisp, blunt dialogue from the lexicon of British bureaucracy and all wrestle with the exigencies of fl ops under democratic government.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005N5RK/sleepdeprivation   (2876 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Sandbaggers Collection Set 2: DVD: David Robb,Harry Webster,David Glyder,Michael O'Hagan,Richard ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sandbagger Willie Caine is assigned to protect the Senator's successor, a well-known civil rights leader, at the funeral.
Sandbagger Laura Dickens lies dying on the desolate cold strip of no-man's-land between East and West Germany, assassinated on the orders of Neil Burnside.
He controls the "Sandbaggers", a select group of agents, no more than two or three, who are always on call to race to global points of crisis in MI6's struggle with the KGB and set thing aright.
www.amazon.com /Sandbaggers-Collection-Set-2/dp/B00005N5RL   (2314 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Sandbaggers: Season 1: DVD: David Robb,Harry Webster,David Glyder,Michael O'Hagan,Richard Shaw,David ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sandbaggers is the only one that I willingly go back and re-watch again and again (for the Sopranos, we'll have to wait and see).
The Sandbaggers was written by Ian Mackintosh, a man who wished to debunk the James Bond mythology and portray Cold War era espionage as it really was.
He is in command of a three-man section of special agents, nicknamed the Sandbaggers, who undertake politically sensitive and hazardous missions outside the UK.
www.amazon.ca /Sandbaggers-Season-1-David-Robb/dp/B00005N5RK   (1402 words)

  
 Lake Geneva Yacht Club - Our History
The sandbaggers continued their handicap racing on Geneva Lake throughout the 80's and 90's, long after the type had disappeared on the east coast.
The sandbaggers were on the way out, however, being pushed into extinction by longer, narrower boats whose handicaps were based on sail area as well as length.
The sandbagger LORNA, sailed by Julian M. Rumsey, son of NETTIE's owner, was awarded the Sheridan Prize in 1898 for a race in which she was the only contestant.
www.lgyc.com /history.html   (2189 words)

  
 Sandbaggers -- FAQ
The Sandbaggers is remarkable for the many ways in which it inverts espionage genre conventions: Burnside doesn’t drink and is about as far from charming as you can get, his top Sandbagger hates violence, no one has any flashy cars or gadgets or sexual liaisons, and the whole series features very few action scenes.
The Sandbaggers was shot using two-inch videotape for the interiors.
Sandbaggers Series 3 was shooting at the time of the July 1979 mishap.
www.opsroom.org /pages/faq/index.html   (1128 words)

  
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The list, which consists of 170 names, is made up of golfers whose scores in tournament competition are substantially--often ridiculously--lower than their scores in regular play.
Exposure of sandbaggers will enable local associations to deal with them and, the USGA believes, will be a significant step toward giving everyone a correct handicap.
Sandbaggers not only accomplish this rare feat, they manage to do it only in tournaments.
www.popeofslope.com /sandbagging/mostwanted.html   (1121 words)

  
 The Sandbaggers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Why the group was called the Sandbaggers was not explained in the context of the show, but it may have to do with putting up sandbags as a defense against an incoming flood.
Though the Sandbaggers' missions took them all over the world, most of the exterior filming was actually done in the city of Leeds and the surrounding Yorkshire countryside.
The senior Sandbagger (or "Sandbagger One") and head of the Special Operations Section, Caine is a former paratrooper and according to Burnside, possibly the best operative of his kind in the world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Sandbaggers   (2734 words)

  
 THE SANDBAGGERS | A TELEVISION HEAVEN REVIEW
For most of the time, the Sandbaggers operated in a shadowy world of midnight rendezvous, border crossings, prisoner exchanges and double cross.
If it were true that MacKintosh had spent many years as a secret agent, the end result of his time help make "The Sandbaggers" a tight, realistic, intriguing series that was considered by many to be a very accurate portrayal of the field.
The first episode of "The Sandbaggers" was broadcast on the ITV network on September 11, 1978.
www.televisionheaven.co.uk /sandbaggers.htm   (913 words)

  
 The Sandbaggers TV Show - The Sandbaggers Television Show - TV.com
The Sandbaggers was a taut British spy series comprising twenty 50-minute episodes produced by Yorkshire Television.
The stories centred on the elite covert operations section of British Intelligence, nicknamed the Sandbaggers, and their boss Neil Burnside, himself a former Sandbagger, but now having to battle more with British bureaucracy than enemy agents.
Burnside is opposed to an East-West arms treaty being negotiated in Malta, so he and the Sandbaggers conspire to scuttle the talks by encouraging a Soviet double agent to defect.
www.tv.com /the-sandbaggers/show/6140/summary.html   (214 words)

  
 Sandbaggers Characters
But most of Neil's battles aren't in the field, they're in the halls of government as he fights the people who should be on his side, but are usually on their own side.
But when Sandbaggers are the equivalent of Star Trek redshirts, it's a love without a future.
Alan Denson is a Sandbagger who, unlike Willie, can't look on the deceit and "ends justifying means" forever.
www.iment.com /maida/tv/misc/sbcharacters.htm   (617 words)

  
 Sandbaggers...Defined - by Sean Takeda
If all tourneys allowed sandbaggers to enter, they would eventually lose all of the teams to better run tournaments who don't tolerate sandbaggers.
It soon became aware that another team had sandbaggers on their team as well, but by that time, the tourney was almost over.
I think that many tournaments are being held for monetary compensation, which of course most are, but we are forgetting completely about what we are out there in the first place for, to be competitive, and to have fun.
www.thempn.com /articles/sb/sandbaggers.html   (1764 words)

  
 ncncaRacing.com :: View topic - Cat 4 Sandbaggers Zack Sober and Criston DeWan
He is not a sandbagger in any sense of the word.
A rider can't be considered a sandbagger until they have earned the Min number of upgrade points at the very least.
Officially someone isn't a sandbagger until they reach the mandatory upgrade point level (30 points for a Cat 4 and 60 points for a Cat 3 in a 12 month period).
www.ncncaracing.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=143   (2318 words)

  
 YouTube - "The Sandbaggers" - 1978 - Yorkshire Colour Television
YouTube - "The Sandbaggers" - 1978 - Yorkshire Colour Television
"The Sandbaggers" - 1978 - Yorkshire Colour Television
Sandbaggers Yorkshire Television ITV Spies British Great Britain Roy Marsden Ray Lonnen Alan MacNaughtan Bob Sherman (more) (less)
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 The Sandbaggers - The Complete Third Series
'The Sandbaggers' has the distinction of showing the battles are played out in its own service and Whitehall and could even be thought of as political intrigue as much as the espionage and skulduggery itself.
The Sandbaggers themselves are the operational branch of the SIS whose officers do politically sensitive missions.
'The Sandbaggers' has not been shown on UK television since the 80s, then this is the right time to re-acquaint yourself with all three series and well worth taking some time off from our regular genre to enjoy as well.
www.computercrowsnest.com /articles/books/2007/nz10878.php   (673 words)

  
 Dangerous Universe
The absolute best-ever television spy drama has to be the The Sandbaggers, which aired on U.K. television in the late 1970's/early 1980's and is available for the rest of us on DVD.
Trust me when I say that these old episodes of The Sandbaggers hold their own against any modern television series – HBO series included.
Heck, season two of The Sandbaggers is better than season one – the mark of a quality show.
www.dangerousuniverse.com /detail.asp?t=828   (112 words)

  
 The "live" version of the Sandbaggers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Background: Albert, having recently created the original Sandbaggers to address the growing problems of people from other channels snooping into our business, gave it another try when we included it in our radio show.
The audio quality is much better, but I still preferred the original version, as it seemed to flow much more smoothly.
Sandbaggers "Live" Approx 1 min 14 sec, in mp3 format
home.ptd.net /~n3cvj/sandbaggersliveclip.htm   (76 words)

  
 Sandbaggers, The: Collection Set 3 - Rotten Tomatoes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Sandbaggers, The: Collection Set 3 to receive a rating.
The Sandbaggers is a taut, Cold War based British espionage caper series that follows an elite cadre of spies.
Check out the new pics for "TMNT," in which the turtles have to battle a horde from another dimension.
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 The Sandbaggers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I should point out, though, that there is no evidence that Willie died at the premature end of the series.
The Sandbaggers at least took a look at the film they were going to use beforehand, and wrote details into the script to explain what we saw.
The Sandbaggers was created by Ian Mackintosh (who actually disappeared in mysterious circumstances) and ran for three short series.
www.jumptheshark.com /s/sandbaggers.htm   (1222 words)

  
 goMXracing - Western Motocross - Sandbaggers
Is it just me or are there a lot of sandbaggers in the 125 beg.
It was easy at the race to pick out the Sandbaggers, Especially when the leader of the 125 beg.
If someone wants to stay too long in the beginners class they will be known as a sandbagger and a jerk.
www.gomxracing.com /forum/showthread.php?t=666   (1273 words)

  
 The Rewind Forums :: View topic - The Sandbaggers: The Complete Third Series (R2 - UK)
"The Sandbaggers" is another of these spy dramas and ran for a total of twenty episodes spread out over three series.
If I was to write a review in twenty years for an X Factor/Pop Idol DVD and wrote it was popular twenty years ago, then you'd obviously just ignore that fact and skip buying the disc.
To Hell with Justice - Edward Tyler, the Director of Intelligence, flies to Malta for a holiday, but the Sandbaggers are left with the memory of a tragic event thanks to an inquisative SIS officer and a young lady.
www.therewindforums.co.uk /forums/viewtopic.php?t=18799   (1103 words)

  
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Both a critical and ratings success on its original ITV transmission, The Sandbaggers was lauded in 2003 by the New York Times as being "The best spy series in TV history".
Run by the dour, single-minded Neil Burnside (Roy Marsden), the 'Sandbaggers' are headed by the brash but conscientious Willie Caine (Ray Lonnen).
In a game of cat-and-mouse between foreign powers, the stakes are high and the chances of a Sandbagger being killed in action is not small.
www.play.com /DVD/DVD/PROD/3-/677735/The_Sandbaggers_Series_1/Product.html   (393 words)

  
 Humor Columns by Horace J. Digby
The SandBaggers, a self described bunch of ne'er-do-wells, patterned after the Portland Rain Makers, did what they do best in times of grave national emergency.
Retired FBI agent Tom Manning, and his fellow SandBaggers, came up with a plan to quiet the volcano.
Now the SandBaggers are looking for a new plan to stop the mountain.
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 The Sandbaggers Episode Guide - The Sandbaggers Season Episodes - TV.com
The Sandbaggers may be sent to Vienna to keep tabs on a possible defector, while Burnside tries to get official approval to assassinate an African dictator.
Alan Denson threatens to quit the Sandbaggers after a rough, unauthorized mission near the Soviet border, so Burnside applies pressure to Denson's fiancee.
Sandbagger One Willie Caine goes to Gibraltar to investigate the murder of an SIS agent, and potential new Sandbagger Laura Dickens goes to Morocco to get more clues in the case.
www.tv.com /sandbaggers/show/6140/episode_guide.html   (424 words)

  
 The Sandbaggers-Bondian Connections
Fourteen years prior to playing "C", the head of SIS in "The Sandbaggers", Richard Vernon, as Colonel Smithers of the Bank of England in Goldfinger, briefed 007 and "M" over fine cigars and some "rather disappointing brandy".
On the basis of his fine performance as "C" in "The Sandbaggers", EON could have done far worse than to consider Mr.
Sherman, of course, played Jeff Ross for the entire run of "The Sandbaggers", and is rumored to have written a "spec script" for a proposed revival of "The Sandbaggers", for which Roy Marsden had supposedly obtained the rights, but was (it is rumored) unable to get backing.
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 Sandbaggers
Sandbaggers offer a small selection of high quality products, custom made for use in the desert environment.
Made from parachute silk and stitched for maximum strength, these items are extremely lightweight, durable and occupy minimal storage space.
Hugely impressed with their competitive prices, range of stock and, most importantly, the expert honest advice you'll receive from their staff Sandbaggers have made Likeys our official kit supplier.
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 Welcome to herSandbaggers.com
The company was founded by Joan Villani, an avid golfer.
Not long before Sandbaggers was born, Joan developed her craving for cooler and more comfortable golf footwear.
Relying on Maine's deep history for producing handmade boots, shoes and sandals, Joan put her ingenuity to test and created the first golf sandal design, the Kiltie.
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