Round the Island Race

[PedroB]

Anyone else doing this on Saturday? My

I'll be out on our X-35 'X-Waves'.

[jon h]

Will be watching from the water, on a mates boat, but alas it has no sails, so we will not be competing. (if we did, I reckon we could do a lap in about an hour and a half)

In the meantime, I will be getting my sailing fix on this tomorrow...

[Boatbuoy]

Yep, I'll be on GBR-3219L 'Tenia', a Grand Soleil 43.

Here's my video from last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPh4ZDAhBdQ

[ecsrobin]

I was meant to be racing Saturday but due to one of the crew getting injured we are not partaking guess I'll watch from across the water at hill head.

[PedroB]

Boatbuoy said:

Yep, I'll be on GBR-3219L 'Tenia', a Grand Soleil 43.

Here's my video from last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPh4ZDAhBdQ

Great stuff, i'll keep an eye out for your sail number though we'll be on different start times.

We are GBR 35N

[ukbabz]

It'll be my first time doing it (first time on a small boat too). Really looking forward to it

[b14]

Good stuff. I'm Trim 1 on the Quarter Tonner "Cobh Pirate" - she's old but has had £££ spent on her so very competitive. Should be exciting. Forecast looking excellent for a good day's sail.

[ecsrobin]

How did everyone get on? I had to make do with watching online. Hopefully we will be ready for the swan Europeans in a weeks time.

[Boatbuoy]

We had a leisurely sail round and managed 260th of 700odd in ISC.

Which was better than this lot: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-333...

We saw most of the incidents mentioned in the report and I have nothing but praise for all of the emergency services, both paid and volunteer. I have never heard channel 16 so busy; there was about 3 hours of near constant mayday/pan-pan traffic. The guys at Solent Coastguard did a fantastic job of coordinating the assets and managing the situation. I hope the RNLI crewman who was injured in the line of duty and airlifted makes a speedy recover.

[b14]

Ours was not so leisurely - hitting 15 knots downwind out the back of the island was hard work! Broke the fitting on the kite pole but managed to bodge a repair to get back up and running - had an hour under white sails past St Cats though which put us out the running. Fantastic day's sailing.

Absolutely broken now and my hands are in bits.

[chrisga]

I was lucky enough to do the race on Hard-drives Sabre 27 "Summer Girl". We were 289th in ISC. Don't think we could have sailed that boat round much faster! We were only one of about 3 boats we could see to fly the spinnaker from the needles to St Catherines which really was champagne sailing, albeit probably just on the right side of control.....

Coupled with a trip to Goodwood on Friday it was a really, really good weekend all round, but I'm absolutely shattered this morning!

[Hard-Drive]

chrisga said:

I was lucky enough to do the race on Hard-drives Sabre 27 "Summer Girl". We were 289th in ISC. Don't think we could have sailed that boat round much faster! We were only one of about 3 boats we could see to fly the spinnaker from the needles to St Catherines which really was champagne sailing, albeit probably just on the right side of control.....

Coupled with a trip to Goodwood on Friday it was a really, really good weekend all round, but I'm absolutely shattered this morning!

Ha! It was a great day. We had a boat full of decent dinghy sailors who usually race 49ers/B14s/Fireballs/RS300s so it was great fun to really push an old cruiser. Speeds are nowhere near a fast dinghy at full chat, however due to the loads, power, volume of water being barged out the way and general lack of manoeuvrability the sphincter twitch factor was just as high! And having a beer fridge and a bog was a bonus too!

Most PH-worthy boat that we saw was called "Carrera". Sail number? GBR911. Cool.

[Hard-Drive]

chrisga said:

I was lucky enough to do the race on Hard-drives Sabre 27 "Summer Girl". We were 289th in ISC. Don't think we could have sailed that boat round much faster! We were only one of about 3 boats we could see to fly the spinnaker from the needles to St Catherines which really was champagne sailing, albeit probably just on the right side of control.....

Coupled with a trip to Goodwood on Friday it was a really, really good weekend all round, but I'm absolutely shattered this morning!

Ha! It was a great day. We had a boat full of decent dinghy sailors who usually race 49ers/B14s/Fireballs/RS300s so it was great fun to really push an old cruiser. Speeds are nowhere near a fast dinghy at full chat, however due to the loads, power, volume of water being barged out the way and general lack of manoeuvrability the sphincter twitch factor was just as high! And having a beer fridge and a bog was a bonus too!

Most PH-worthy boat that we saw was called "Carrera". Sail number? GBR911. Cool.

[Boatbuoy]

Hard-Drive said:

Most PH-worthy boat that we saw was called "Carrera". Sail number? GBR911. Cool.

Yep, GBR911X to be precise. A nice new Dufour 410:

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We crossed the start line together and raced tit-for-tat all the way to the end, eventually finishing 17 seconds ahead!

Edited by Boatbuoy on Tuesday 30th June 11:47

[PedroB]

We did pretty well overall 7h23min elapsed time, 16th in class and 163rd overall. We entered the 3 yacht club race too and Royal Temple YC finished 9th overall.

Bit hairy surfing downwind after the needles and one nasty broach trying to get out of the way after some clown in a rented Sunsail boat wiped out right in front of us.

A great day in all, my face is still a bit sunburned.