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Sailed single-handed from St.Martin to Tortola overnight, managed to find and hit an uncharted rock! Small damage to bow, and scrapes down the port side. Moody build them tough.
St. Martin to Grand Turk, 26 May 2010
Odin, Mupe Rocks and Portland
Pictures from the Jurassic Rally...
Sant Carles to Kerkyra - the complete voyage (and gallery)
I'm setting off on the 5th May with some old shipmates to help take a friends boat (Gilly B) from St Carlos (Spain) to Mahon, Cagliari, Palermo, Stromboli, Straits of Messina, Proveza and finally Kerkyra ..... or in other words a quick blast across the Mediterranean Sea :-)
How to sail to St Vaast without going to St Vaast!
Date/Time: 19:30 on Friday 30th April
Place: Cowes JOG line
Event: JOG race to St Vaast
Yacht: Juno
The weather forecast for Friday and Saturday was for SW force 5-6 but turning northerly force 7-8 for Sunday evening and Monday.
Training party - that was a night!
Event training party, 29 April, time:late. Name chris dixon.
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East Coast sailing
Our rally season is about to get going. I know some of your boats are not ready yet - but I hope as many as possible will support the West Mersea Rally - contact Anne Malcolm for details.
Demeter will be going but sadly without me. I hope to be out of plaster but will not be safe on a boat! Meantime - don't forget 'informal sailing' - let others know when you are going out.
My personal target is Calais - I'll just have to see how the phusio goes.
Hillyard to Hungary
Fellow club-members might be interested in the tale of my taking my 1939 Hillyard 5-ton gaff cutter, Elizabeth Jane, to Hungary for her 70th birthday.
Skippers & Crew Rep This Week
Emmy Hettena is the S &C rep on duty at the Club tomorrow, Tuesday March 30. Find her, suitably labelled (hopefully drink in hand and esconced in a comfortable chair) in the lounge from about 1800 hrs.
The season starts at Easter
The Easter Rally looks to my crew to be an opportunity for some creative sailing mixed with a liberal helping of social company and in the prospect of languid spring days with gentle following winds.
Copper coating or raw skill? (and gripping video...)
This has to be the last of my reports of our winter’s copper coating saga. The work was finished in January and Storm Petrel was back in the water, rigged and ready to go in good time for the February Fast Cruise, but as the March FC hove into view we were looking to consolidate our February victory.