Last of the August Series - oops, last.

A disappointing sail for race 6 of the WSC august series. Really light airs meant that we struggled to get the boat going and it was one of the few times that we probably needed a genoa. We're slow in the light both up and down wind, we need to work on this.

Anyway, we finished the series in second place with RWH winning and Scoline on equal points in third place.

Bring on the sunday series......and some wind.

August Series Race 2 - Weymouth Sailing Club

Helm Stephen applauds Sigma 33 Scoline in the distance after another exhilirating race last night. Another reach to reach course gave JS9000 RWH the win again and Sigma 33 Snow Goose sailed impeccably well to get the 2nd and first in IRC. We were 4th in PY but again we only had four on board.

Rattler came past our 1st kite leg on the way into Weymouth harbour so hopefully they've got a nice "Touareg" photo for us!


The Rolex Commodore's cup starts this weekend with GBR being the current holders but against some very strong competition, the french have four teams whereas we've got three which don't include any Archambault boats but do include a Farr 45, I don't know that much about it but that worries me, let's hope beneteaus and superior sailing is enough! Link here
Edit 18th Aug: oh yeah, I get it now about the Farr 45 thing, very clever....Alice II beat the tidal gates in the offshore race to win class 1 by a country mile! I should be more supportive of Farr designs.

The last stage of the Figaro sets off from Kinsale on monday with Armel "The Jackal" Le Cleac'h sure of an overall win. Link here 

Start of August Series - Mon 9th

FarrOut was 2nd last night, beaten narrowly by the JS9000 RWH which was miles in front. I guess the first triangle in breeze (about 20 knots) favoured them as an asymmetric boat, as it did us with the Touareg up creaming through the fleet. Great fun.
On the downwind sausage leg we got a wine glass wrap on the gybe, Stuart dealt with it by getting "aggressive" with the foot of the kite. However it probably cost us the win. Can't complain though, it was a good start to the series.

August Series - going well

We're really enjoying the WSC August series at the moment (sailed on monday and thursday evenings). Although we've no chance of winning it, we're snapping at the heels of those that can.

Last night was gusting 30+ knots and we were the only boat in Q class to fly a kite, exhilirating! Chapeau to La Salmo in W class for doing the same. I know we keep saying it but keeping to white sails downwind on Farr Out just can't happen; for one it wrecks the upwind sails when you wrap them around the forestay and we certainly need a lot of wind to get her planing - that's when the fun is.

Due to the beer deficit on board at the moment, we finally managed to clear the Pimms pre-mix left over from the Round the Island.