A catch up for this week.

I've not got around to making any posts for a while, just kind of busy. The final Rear Admiral's Cup race was a light airs affair (how I'm sick of those!) but I think we did alright and hopefully enough between Sole Bay and us to lift the cup, but once again we didn't make three boats representing Weymouth Sailing Club. It's OK though because I think no-one will be doing it next year!

Following that was a very disappointing thursday race, once again in fairly light airs, we probably had too many people on board and the dying evening breeze really scuppered us. I was quite down afterwards, wondering if my driving was rubbish or what it was. It's so depressing to see those Sigmas get away so easily. I think it was a lot of things that gave us a poor result but the major reason has to be Farr Out's bottom. I dived the boat on friday and found the bottom filthy with grass growing on port side. Now nicely scrubbed but I guess all the bright sunshine we've had over the last three weeks had really ramped up the weed growth, which kind of corresponds with the poor performances in light airs (I hope!). Maybe VC Offshore is not the antifoul to use in the location we're moored, I think we'll try something else next year.

So with a newly shiny bottom I'm looking forward to this weekend's Henri Lloyd Weymouth Regatta, where we've opted to enter the PY1 class so that we can play with MGC27s. You never know we might be able to use our new secret weapon.........

Rear Admiral's Cup 2 - Hugh Rose Trophy

We battled on saturday to actually finish the race, but there was no wind to be had quite soon after we'd rounded the windward mark at Arish Mell in third place. In fact there were only two finishers of the race Snow Goose and a half tonner from the RNSA called High Hopes which looked like a good fast boat.

Darren and Kerry had gone on Manana as we had too many people and Mickey didn't have enough in the light airs. It was fun trading tacks with them and watching them hoist all the headsails that they had including the drifter and the blooper. Manana's offshore track seemed better than our inshore when the wind shut off!

Still a nice day out on the water but no results for WSC boats in this race. Let's hope we have good breeze for the third and final race on 27th. I'm absolutely determined that the cup is coming to our club this year!

Rear Admiral's Cup - Race 1

The Rear Admiral's Cup is for teams of three boats from the local sailing clubs: Castle Cove (CCSC), Royal Dorset (RDYC), Royal Naval Sailing Association (RNSA) and Weymouth Sailing Club (WSC). Today was the first race of a series of three and the WSC team was Sole Bay, Folio and FarrOut. We had an excellent afternoon scoring first, fifth and second.

Again a good showing from the FarrOut crew finishing second over the water to Iduna (X332), and our new sails were fantastic.

Shiny Sails

Last thursday's race - Weymouth Sailing Club's IRC series Thurs 1/2, was the first chance we had of flying our new mainsail. We didn't do well in the race mainly due to using the No. 1 headsail when I think the No.3 would have got us higher and faster (plus that's brand new as well).
The new sails are from Hyde and built in Dimension Polyant's X10 and X15 aramid cloth.
The new main fitted perfectly and thanks to Wooderz of Hyde Sails for that. Hopefully try the new No. 3 out this thursday.
We're also racing on saturday this week representing WSC in this year's Rear Admiral's Cup series. Hopefully we can take that cup from the Royal Dorset!