Before I start, you have to take into consideration that these championships were held mostly in mid to top end A rig conditions with a...

The Gladstone IOM World Championship was a truly magnificent event with some of the best live streaming and commentary we have ever seen...

So I finished on a high in the last race moving from D heat to C heat to B heat and just missed qualification to A heat by a couple of...

What can I say. The championships did not go to plan. 2nd in race 1 then last in A heat, last in B heat, last in C heat, just survived in...

Probably my worst days sailing picking up penalties in every race. The worst one was where I sat stationary on the start line and a boat...

We spent a lot of the morning waiting for the wind to shift. Once the course was laid my strategy was to get right as soon as possible...

Woke early to catch up on domestics. You know the sort of things, clothes washing, breakfast, tidying up the place, shopping, packing the...

Today was measuring day for me. The organisers made the process as smooth as possible. Weigh all the batteries Weigh the fin and bulb....

The new winch is reliable as is the 40mm drum. I so much prefer a regular drum over a spiral. You know exactly where you are with the...

Yesterday sailing with A rig, my RMG J series winch started screaching at me and refused to sheet in so off with that one and in with a...

So today I met Grant Cooper today who is the lead organiser of this championship. No small task. He drove me up to a botanical park where...

On Sunday I had the pleasure to sail with the Gladstone radio sailing club. Such a friendly bunch and very good sailors. The venue is one...

The journey to the worlds begins. We left early for Heathrow to avoid the rush hour and met a little traffic on the M3.   My bag and boat...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...