crew for the bloody mary

Originally posted by simsy He certainly did well in the 400, love to know how hes gettin on in the skiff. No doubt you race against his son Neil at Whitstable, Rick?

Yep; Neil joined WYC and we have raced against him in his 800 a few times ...

Rick

Umm lets just say thats rick's progress is umm.... steady and he enjoys the water. But i think the transition from a 400 to MPS is quite a big one. Plus never having trapezed before might not help

Yes indeed sorry rick 

hi everyone.  the b-mary was very exciting  and the only amusing thing being a 29er capsizeing in a very strong wind .  when we first when out there was a nice bit of wind,  well the kite was just filling.  and once it came to our start the wind had died and the race turned into a drift around.  it took us 30mins to reach the windward mark and about 2 hours for use just to get round half of the first lap.   so we decided to call it a day mainly cos our fingers felt like they were going to fall off.   it was a good turn out though with just over 200 boats braving the extreme condition.  the winner was a thames A rater who spanked everyone distpite being late for the start. the high performance fleet was well represented with about 10 inter14's, 4 49er's, 7 29ers, us ,  and the new 29er xx which looks very sexy  and a new 05cherub which was struggling in the light winds. 

i will be back next year to see if we can have a good blast round. 

happy sailing.  luke

yer it was the one with the orange and blue strips.  he did ok but was late for the start and had a bit of trouble with the kite!   there py should be much lower than it is at the mo.