I put a report on the Nationals in Yachts and Yachting It is hard to put into words how I feel about this weekend. On the one hand I...

27th place. 6 races. I am lost for words. I let trouble find me in every race bar 1. 3 contacts where my boat locked horns with the...

The IOM Europeans are done and now we have the Nationals this weekend at Lincoln.  Congratulations to Rob Walsh and Graham Elliott for...

The club at Huntingdon put on a great show. Refreshments and cake all day, good courses aligned for the shifty conditions, sunshine, 30...

After sailing my DF one wet weekend, I put my DF sails on one of the AGA tops at home overnight.  The tops are a slightly domed shape and...

Where do I start with such a perfect weekend of sailing.  The only thing that was missing was Mediterranean temperatures.   The...

So Craig sailed Version 10 at the recent ranking event and was pleased with the performace, however he did go home and pened version 11...

So Craig, David and myself were sailing at Datchet on a perfect training course. 20 yard start line, 100 yard beat followed by run, beat...

There are those who have sailed IOM's for a long time and tried all the options available to them, and they settle on one design or...

As I wait to find out why gas is not getting through to the fridge on the van, I thought I would pen an update on the latest Proteus...

Introduction Yesterday we tried out the latest of Craig's development platforms. The goal is to have an all round boat that will handle...

Not much to say about this one other than it felt like a step back in time repeating old mistakes probably caused by not sailing my boat...

Preamble This Sunday saw the Datchet Radio Sailing AGM and to add a bit of interest to encourage members in I was asked to give a talk...

So I have 2 rigs that I want to test out. The first is a medium set of moulded sails on a mast with 16mm prebend and the second is the...

As usual, many thanks to all those who have bought me a coffee. If you have not contributed and like what you see why not pop over to...

The wind was blowing down the lake which made for perfect racing. Conditions were mid to top A rig and building. By race 2 everyone was...

Its jolly cold up north but no colder than down south. I put many layers on for the day and was determined not to suffer from the cold.....

Having done lots of testing on the new IOM design, it is time to get the DF's out of the cupboard for the UK TT circuit and some great...

Aside from Chipstead, it was great to see top fleet action and Birkenhead and Lincoln along with Gosport, Emsworth and other sites. ...