The forecast for Sunday was grim as far as the rain was concerned and so it proved to be. I spent the whole day in a SouWester which not...

A fantastic morning sailing at Gosport in mid A rig condition. Wind was straight down the lake, well just coming off one side which...

Following the conditions at Fleetwood at their Twixmass regatta, it showed the value of waterproofing your electrics. Racing all day in...

I noticed on facebook that there was an entry on wind ranges for the 3 IOM rigs which I thought was worth looking into in more detail. ...

I read with envy the story of the Twixmass racing at Fleetwood. Whilst the DF95's did not have the best of the wind the IOM's had a...

So I wrote to Santa asking for a new Marblehead and 10 Rater and to my disappointment this morning there was nothing outside or inside...

It's amazing how time flies when you are busy. For me, it was a year as Seniors Captain at Blackmoor Golf Club and lots of sailing to...

My first job with the boat after initial racing was to modify the headsail system so I can: Raise and lower the jib boom, raise for light...

So after my last blog a wise man from the Wirral advised me of some of the errors of my ways. I am extremely grateful to him and one of...

I always thought entry into the Marblehead class with an oldish boat, sails and rig would be tricky and so it proved in the my first...

Winter has begun and so has the training. There are at least 5 months before the first ranking events and the Nationals are in August so...

I come home from meetings and often think to myself, if only I had done this or that, I would have a much better result. Not so at...

This is a long post but maybe one of the most important. It covers one of the most significant barriers to my achieving stellar...

Final day of the Metropolitan and Southern District Championship was held at Chipstead on 19 November. Light shifty conditions. A day...

With the wind running down the lake all was set up for a fantastic mornings racing with good shifts and gusts in the wind to keep us all...

As I sit staring out at the rain, I began to think about key tactics for IOM racing based on the opens and ranking events this year. I...

After a 2 hour journey followed by coffee and a bacon and egg sandwich, I arrived to a beautiful November morning. There was a bit of a...

So I sailed at Emsworth on Thursday with a perfect wind direction for the slipper lake. Richard Callas set an excellent course to keep...

A view of the top 20 results can tell us a lot. First the data Country Representatives in top 20 4 French 1, 2, 9, 20 3 Croatia ...

Lines are everywhere. You wrote them at school if you were naughty, you navigate by lat and long lines, the Aztecs drew them on the...