Who was out this weekend?.....

Oh yacht racing does seem very slow the only bonus you can wear less kit getting a better suntan.

Out last night for our evening series six mins before the start kicker broke so by the time i had taken it out rerigged it back through cunningham block had a mintue to go had a good start chased an rs 200 for the first downwind bit till i overtook him only for him to pass going upwind next kite leg lots of luffing till i finally drove over the top this was for good as i pulled away lapping most of the fleet winning by 25 seconds on corrected time at the end against the 200 cant wait for tonight race as done two now won two so bring it on.

1) get up very early, bump my head and walk into the wardbrobe thinking it is the bathroom.

2) Got dressed (just) and on the train to London

3) A very loud person on the phone sat next to me so could not sleep on the train

4) Walk past Buckingham Palace on the way to the office just for the heavens to open up on me.

4) Start work at 7.30am

5) At 12.30pm I skip lunch and carry on working while I try and get some sleep with one I shut

6) 4.00pm I rush out of the office explaining to everyone I had got in work early although nobody really believes me

7) Runs past Buckingham Palace ignoring the requests of the Japs to take their photos

8) Run across the concourse at Victoria train station, grab a bag of crisps and lunge onto my train.

9) A noisy family with horribal little oiks sit next to me. No sleep again. I hate school holidays.

10) Get home, change, get in car all in 3 minutes

11) Drive to the sailing club at a steady 80mph not really caring about my carbon foot-print

12) Just get the last parking space to another  anoyance of someone else

13) Get really excited now for my Wednesday evening sail

14 ) Check out the conditions, Flat water a steady 15 knots, little waves to play with - great 300 weather. I think I am going to have a good race

15) No satey boat crew so racing cancelled.

Hallo, that really I'm new on this forum, and I'm from poland, then apologise for my english . I just want to ask, if anyone saw on a last saturday around 6 p.m at Fort Augustus amaizing boat, at least 50 ft long, over 12 ft wide with 2 keels pulled out over the deck. This boat is sharp cuted on the back, looks like a speed boat. I forgot the name of this boat, but it was 4 alfabets long, last alfabet was a Norwegian O, looks like O and / together  and number 1. If anyone saw this boat and know the type, mark or name of this boat, please let me know. Thank You very much for Your patience with reading this message.

All the best
Bart

Wasn't sailing this weekend - instead decided to help keep Knebworth + surrounding area awake until the early hours of the morning.

On the barrier for Linkin Park, Nine Inch Nails, and (most importantly) Metallica!!

Great racing on the Medway on Sunday.  Such a relief to be sailing in a medium wind where we could have an honest race and not be a) surving, or b) drifting.  No Ospreys and the other 4000 was doing a duty but the 59er was out and there's often a few 29ers and a Votex or two and I mustn't forget a well sailed 400.  So we were setup for some good racing and we got it.  Fortunately I got good starts in both races and although we can't match the 59er downwind if we have to go deep, we can basically thrash it upwind which we did in a particularly nice fashion in the afternoon.

We've difinitely got the boat going well upwind now and I merely have to stay with the our competitors downwind and then sail over them upwind.  Actually it needn't be over, it can be under.  Its glorious to have the choice.

I'm a bit concerned about the 59er - he is now getting disheartened - I'm going to start another thread on 59er tune in the hope there is somebody who knows how to do it.