The biggest learning from the Vets championship was to stay out of trouble. Thankfully I learned my lesson when sailing at Emsworth on...

I visited my home club Frensham Pond Sailing Club last weekend and met up with some GP14 sailor. We got into a discussion about what...

Thee are days when you look at a sailing venue and the wind patterns on the water enter your mind and you know exactly how to play then. ...

So today I started working on increasing the prebend. The mast originally had 12mm prebend but this reduced to approx 5mm meaning I have...

Since the Veterans Championship I have been playing a lot of golf and that teaches you to quieten your mind before each shot. ...

What a brilliant weekend, well organised by the MYA and Lincoln Radio Sailing Club, with fabulous sailing in a well behaved fleet. So...

What a start to the weekend. We left home on Friday at 11am and hit a traffic jam around our home town of Farnham. Sat Nav then took us...

50 hardy souls are heading for Lincoln for the IOM Veterans Championship The venue is a square gravel pit, uniquely not surrounded by...

We had a brilliant day of racing at Frensham on Tuesday (see pictures below). The wind was at the top level for the B rig with gusts of...

The last of the leaks Despite thinking I had fixed all the leaks, the boat was leaking worse than ever last Tuesday. Clearly I was...

Great day racing at Frensham. 8+ IOM's out today. Almost a clean sweep bar one race where I finished second. The new paint job looked...

The spray painting was a success and the colour delightful. I just have to leave it for 24 hours while it chemically cures and then I...

If you have been watching the posts, you will see that I have got to the end of my journey sorting fittings and sails on the boat. ...

Why is it when you don't think when you play a sport, it goes so well and when you start thinking it can go so wrong. We had our first...

The roller bearing jib pivot from Sailsetc works brilliantly in a breeze but when the wind dies the geometry of the fitting is such. it...

A beautiful day at Frensham pond in near perfect winds (5-8 knots of breeze from the NE in the morning with a patchier breeze in the...

Since the new boat was launched I have been plagued by leaks. 2 in the bow, 3 in the fin box and one half of the radio pot cracked away...

The best way to learn about your transmitter is to talk to someone who has a similar device and compare notes. I have a flysky...

One comment I read about one of our top radio sailors which surprised me was how little he varied the back stay, plus or minus 2 mm. I...

Before we get into something could be considered a bit dull, I went two boat tuning yesterday at Frensham pond in a perfect NE wind where...