The River Blackwater estuary off Mersea Island in Essex was the venue for this year’s IRC East Coast Championship, held on 25th and 26th May in light to moderate breezes, and with some welcome sunshine. Three races round windward/leeward courses were sailed on the Saturday, followed by two round-the-cans races Read more…
Mercenary (Mark Bradshaw) showed Olympian qualities when they took second place in the highly competitive IRC 3 Class at Scottish Series finishing behind the outstanding class leader, Jaywalker, a J97. With Olympic medallist Luke Patience in the Class (finishing 4th), competition was fierce and Mark and his crew sailed tenaciously Read more…
What a weekend! The 5 impalas in the JOG Yarmouth race had some close racing, surviving numerous groundings, a plague of flies, strong adverse tides and not a lot of wind. Well done to Imptish who won the race to Yarmouth via Portsmouth, finishing a minute ahead of Polly, followed Read more…
Round the Island race entries close this Saturday, 11th May. Enter now – before the entry fee goes up to £240! Polly, Imptish and Uproar are entered so far… There’s also the David Thomas regatta at the Royal London YC in Cowes the day after the RTI, with three short Read more…