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...

After all the excitement of the Worlds, it is back to to the business of winter sailing and off to Eastbourne on Sunday if I can get...

Have you watched some of the outstanding coverage from the IOM worlds in Croatia? Tomorrow is a lay day but I have seen some of the...

Since the challenges of Manor park, there were a few outings where I started to sail with a lot more of freedom. What do I mean by this?...

I wrote a post a while ago looking at racing thought processes. See Here. One of the questions I ask myself is why don't I practice...

After the heartache of the weekend and overcoming the challenge of my thinking/over thinking/incorrect thinking in races, the new ranking...

Racing in the Ranking event at Manor park was difficult for me, with shifty winds and most of the sailors suffering set backs at some...