Summer; The Backwater “time flies by”

Poor tides and a lack of enthusiasm have taken a huge chunk out of the sailing activities in Maylandsea Bay.

Each of the sailing venues on the Blackwater is unique and have their own special attraction not leaset the characters to be found sailing at them. That’s what makes the open meetings such a challenge and fun to take part in, but sadly the opens are not well supported.

For myself a rash of unnecessaries and poor weather has rendered a miserable run of DNS's and one 6th in the Blackwater S.C. Osea Challenge, which as it turned out had nought to do with Osea Island, but it was a testing sail at one of the finest venues on the Blackwater.

The summer membership at Brightlingsea has not yet happened and the word on the slip is that fleet is upwardly mobile with it’s tail up and looking to hang on to it’s trophies and I look forward to another rendering of Mrs & Mr Gobbies sailing rules as we know it.

There is a chance that the lack of time on the water, a splendid eating holiday and much encouragement from the local wine merchant has brought me to a point where the Bottle of Red will be coming my way. As apposed to racing hard, race practice, early nights and believe that we are on a roll and in the money. It really worked and the fat man suit (Casablanca) fits really well.

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