This weekend sees the sailing move to the Maylandsea Bay start line for the start of the Winter Series. The Sandhopper fleet, now tucked up neatly behind the club bar and with the water furniture tonnage being humped out of the river having been swinging about on their mooring all summer, things are looking up and the best time to be out sailing has arrived.
It is unclear just who the runners and riders will be and if the MBSC race box is to split the fleet. We do know that the Ballers are in the most part out on a sicky with wonky knees, etc. But there is a rumour that Keith Fedi will be returning to defend the Trophy in his Finn. Keith, a race winner, is sadly missed having left the MBSC at the start of the year.
Martin Tarlin, Laser, also a race winner will be a welcome sight on the line although we believe he’s been hard pushed by Martin Cockersole, Laser. However Paul Weedon (a real hard nut Laser sailor) and always on the pace and never out the race is the Laser to watch.
The Merlin fleet is in a state of chaos. Malcolm Cross swapped his Merlin for a leaky Enter box! Laurence threatened to sell (but wisely, at a price no one would pay) and now has it parked safely under going cosmetic restoration. Simon and Pies, who it must be said have shown good boat speed at times, but are a tad hampered with Simon wishing to helm and crew at the same time (even we hear moving the crews cleats to aft of the thwart) is moving up the pecking order. Chris and Paul H! sadly have not been seen for a long time (far too long) having fallen victim to Batty’s alterative version of the racing rules (well as seen in the Telly Tubbies) and has punished himself by removing the deck varnish and storing the boat away. This is bad news for the Merlin fleet as Chris has much to offer in sailing skills and dynamic humour. The Ronet’s! Well… and well. Laura crew (and Matron) has her work cut out. Much work had been carried out on the boat in the spring but has not convinced Ron that sitting out equals boat speed and Ron with the new version of shorter toe straps can keep entirely dry in all but the heaviest of seas, and with the threat of spending more time on restringing the rig and Simon and Pies looking more speedy, the error factor is on the up. Jacko and Lorna at long last appear a tad more settled in the new ship and having spent time with the fishes and pondering how to set a sail the right way up, some times look like they could do something useful. However Jacko’s desire to film racing with a head cam is not going down well with Lorna who will not smile facing Jacko and makes noises that have to be edited out not leaving much to view. Jacko as hear to say “I take sailboat racing very seriously”, but looking at the teams’ starts there is room for improvement.
Racing starts on 28th at 11:30 and I wish all well
It is unclear just who the runners and riders will be and if the MBSC race box is to split the fleet. We do know that the Ballers are in the most part out on a sicky with wonky knees, etc. But there is a rumour that Keith Fedi will be returning to defend the Trophy in his Finn. Keith, a race winner, is sadly missed having left the MBSC at the start of the year.
Martin Tarlin, Laser, also a race winner will be a welcome sight on the line although we believe he’s been hard pushed by Martin Cockersole, Laser. However Paul Weedon (a real hard nut Laser sailor) and always on the pace and never out the race is the Laser to watch.
The Merlin fleet is in a state of chaos. Malcolm Cross swapped his Merlin for a leaky Enter box! Laurence threatened to sell (but wisely, at a price no one would pay) and now has it parked safely under going cosmetic restoration. Simon and Pies, who it must be said have shown good boat speed at times, but are a tad hampered with Simon wishing to helm and crew at the same time (even we hear moving the crews cleats to aft of the thwart) is moving up the pecking order. Chris and Paul H! sadly have not been seen for a long time (far too long) having fallen victim to Batty’s alterative version of the racing rules (well as seen in the Telly Tubbies) and has punished himself by removing the deck varnish and storing the boat away. This is bad news for the Merlin fleet as Chris has much to offer in sailing skills and dynamic humour. The Ronet’s! Well… and well. Laura crew (and Matron) has her work cut out. Much work had been carried out on the boat in the spring but has not convinced Ron that sitting out equals boat speed and Ron with the new version of shorter toe straps can keep entirely dry in all but the heaviest of seas, and with the threat of spending more time on restringing the rig and Simon and Pies looking more speedy, the error factor is on the up. Jacko and Lorna at long last appear a tad more settled in the new ship and having spent time with the fishes and pondering how to set a sail the right way up, some times look like they could do something useful. However Jacko’s desire to film racing with a head cam is not going down well with Lorna who will not smile facing Jacko and makes noises that have to be edited out not leaving much to view. Jacko as hear to say “I take sailboat racing very seriously”, but looking at the teams’ starts there is room for improvement.
Racing starts on 28th at 11:30 and I wish all well
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