The journey to Aus begins
22 hours in the air awaits with breaks at Dubai and Brisbane. Fingers crossed the boat box and bag get there. Departure at 9pm tonight...
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Nigel Barrow
4 days ago4 min
The run in to the worlds tuning the rig and other news
It’s been a while since I posted a blog. All is well, I just have not had the time to post anything or have anything meaningfull to say....
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Nigel Barrow
Aug 292 min
Goals and plans for the Worlds
Readers of the web site will have worked out I am goal and process oriented. The easy bit is to sort out the process. The hard task is...
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Nigel Barrow
Aug 272 min
Update on Worlds Training
It is funny how some days you can have pace to keep ahead and other days you are just off the pace . In light weather I definitely had...
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Nigel Barrow
Aug 142 min
You can have the best design in the world, but.........
I was sailing at Emsworth Slipper Lake last night and had a big lesson in poor rig set up. It was a curious evening with our launch area...
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Nigel Barrow
Aug 103 min
How design faults can creep up on you
First of all thank you to all those who bought me a coffee. Your contributions make a big difference to the longevity of the web. It is...
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Nigel Barrow
Aug 42 min
Training
A brilliant 6 hours training at Datchet, first match racing with Craig Richards for a couple of hours and then another 4 hours of 3 boat...
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Nigel Barrow
Jul 252 min
Preparing for Australia
One of the joys of sailing radio yachts is there is always something to do. This week I looked at buying a sail bag so I could safely...
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Nigel Barrow
Jul 242 min
The Alioth story continued
There was one annoying feature of my Alioth setup in that the fin was raked back noticably compared to other boats so I could achieve...
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Nigel Barrow
Jul 223 min
DF 95 club racing and setting the boat up
As the nationals were cancelled last weekend, I found some competitive club racing to get involved with. See video below. One of the...
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Nigel Barrow
Jul 165 min
Peter Stollery's IOM Magic box
Peter very kindly sent me the details of his magic box for transporting my IOM and rigs on a plane to Australia. The box is easy to...
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Nigel Barrow
Jul 155 min
The Fleetwood IOM ranking weekend
I want to say a huge thank you to the Fleetwood team led by Bob Jolly and Derek Priestley. They know how to put on a great show and...
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Nigel Barrow
Jul 91 min
We lost a good friend today
I received the news from the Commodore of Frensham Pond Sailing Club that one of our own regular radio sailing friends was taken from us...
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Nigel Barrow
Jul 82 min
Tactical Options
I had a great day down at Gosport today. The wind was shifty and the course a bit one sided but it was a great test of how to avoid...
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Nigel Barrow
Jul 74 min
How do you achieve High Mode or VMG mode
First of all thank you to those who bought me a coffee in the last month. We are still some way off covering the next three years web...
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Nigel Barrow
Jun 302 min
More on the prebend and Rig Box
I had a couple of questions on my last post which I thought best to answer with another post Lets start with the Corex rig box. There is...
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Nigel Barrow
Jun 292 min
The transition is complete
I have settled on the Alioth IOM, F6 Marblehead and two DF boats. Everything else is sold so there is no going back for better or worse....
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Nigel Barrow
Jun 262 min
My Alioth set up
As some have commented, I seem to have done a lot of fiddling and moved away from Juan's published set up notes, however as I said, my...
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Nigel Barrow
Jun 241 min
A brilliant DF TT weekend at Eastbourne
Whatever you think about the DF design, it provides serious one design racing as was proved at Eastbourne las weekend. We were led by the...
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