The all comers Centenary Bowl at Aldeburgh Yacht Club is a legendary trophy. The trophy is awarded after a race which must be "challenging" and the winner must "fill the bowl with brandy until the fellow members are satisfied, otherwise they will be disqualified" . Sounds like my sort of trophy! Open to dinghies, [...]
Whoops, you'd think we'd been away on holiday or sailing? You'd be right a little more sailing.... The other big event on our calendar (did we mention we won Cowes Week?) Is Aldeburgh Yacht Club regatta. If Sweden made carlsberg and carlsberg did regattas, then this is it. Morning and afternoon races for everything [...]
Matt: "We're putting the band back together." Simon: "Forget it. No way." Matt: "We're on a mission from God." And so it was that after returning from Cowes victorious Simon found himself at the back of Matt's Merlin Rocket 'Deception' for the second race of the late summer series at FFSC (cripes that means [...]
With the class dinner at the Royal London and the superforecast showing a lot of breeze. The fleet enjoyed dinner and then the usual dark and stormies at RORC. Z69 held a two point advantage over Z80, were the teams going to have a light night? Err no. We don't play like that in the [...]
My Aunty told me last night that sailing might not be the easiest sport to understand. A team game but with individual skill. On a Victory there are three crew, the helm (Ed's note: the one at the back with the waggle stick, the waggle stick is a magical device that goes in every direction). [...]
WGVcC? What's that? White group committee boat,that's what. Why sail at Cowes when you can sail over on the mainland side. So a cruise over the solent to the race area (Ed's note: what was wrong with starting at RYS?). A simple windward leeward course,what could go wrong? Bearing to first mark 245deg, distance 1.5nautical [...]
Todays reading is from chapter 10,verse 2, If you are going to be dumb, you better be strong. As john lydon said, "i could be wrong, i could be right" Todays course: RYS line 1, East bay, prince konsort gate, hillhead,west knoll, QXi, breakwater line. 'the classic' tacking up the green... With the start sequence [...]
Chapter 1, verse 1. And then there was the RYS. To be fair, (Ed's note: nope, all the tech in the world and still, they still can't organise a decent race) After a few hours sunbathing and anchoring (Ed's note: yes these boats have anchors and yes anchoring is a boat thing). The race committee [...]
Todays text is taken from chapter 2, verse 1: The 7p's. Prior Planning and Preparation,Prevents Piss Poor Performance. Day 2, race 2. Course to steer...RYS line, south Ryde Middle, Colette, Norris, fevertree, wightlink, laid mark s, Breakwater line. Wind yes, well about 8 knots, tide? Yes there's quite a bit of that in the Solent, [...]
For most classes Cowes week starts on Saturday. Not the Victory class one design, harking back to the time of Nelson ( Ed's note: the victory class is only 81 years young) the victory class start Cowes week with a passage race from Portsmouth to the island. Course setter for the day and also gate [...]
