Comments on: SOLENT UPDATE

By: Struan Wallace

Struan Wallace — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:35:56 +0000

Rupert, You know how badly I sail, I would probably sunk the boat in a wipe-out. Sounds like fun though, maybe next time. Like Pete’s idea of a port hand flier in front of the fleet. Being there! done that!

By: Rupert Snow

Rupert Snow — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:09:38 +0000

You would have loved it Struan! Mind you with your yachting experience, being truly whipped by Martin, Barry and the rest of us would have hurt i suppose! Seriously, you need to get a team together to challenge the rest of us – no need for ringers, apparantly i am being chucked off the foredeck in favour of Andrew Hannah, for innapproprioate use of the harmonica…so if you bring the bagpipes i’ll crew for you any day!!

By: Robin Foster-Taylor

Robin Foster-Taylor — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:09:35 +0000

Boat Name 1 2 3 4 Total Position
18 Gordon Saunders 1 36 1 1 3 1
2 Ben Dillistone 7 3 6 2 11 2
54 Tom Cheney 14 2 5 5 12 3
38 Andy Jeffery 5 8 3 8 14 4
51 Iain Jones 11 6 8 6 20 5
24 Martin Bennendijk 4 12 12 7 23 6
36 Neil PM 12 22 9 3 24 7
32 Mark Dell 3 16 10 12 25 8
9 Andy Harrison 9 14 7 10 26 8
25 Peter Thompson 6 21 16 4 26 8
46 Mark Oaten 15 4 11 13 28 11
49 Paul Gilbert 22 7 15 9 31 12
42 Klaus Rassmussen 23 5 4 24 32 13
3 Stephan Shergold 16 15 2 36 33 14
55 Sam Woolner 2 1 36 36 39 15
47 Austin John Bainger 10 27 13 17 40 16
29 Mark Webb 18 10 14 20 42 17
48 Rob Sansome 8 19 25 15 42 17
52 Stuart Harding 25 11 17 14 42 17
41 Alan Benmtall 17 18 24 11 46 20
44 Geroge Bowman 24 9 19 36 52 21
23 Andrew Dicker 19 17 18 36 54 22
53 Dylan Browne 26 13 22 26 61 23
37 Miranda Lindsay Fynn 28 24 21 18 63 24
43 John Hollands 29 25 23 16 64 25
10 Bob Mills 27 26 20 19 65 26
40 Brett Prior 21 29 29 21 71 27
5 Katherine Moton 13 23 36 36 72 28
11 Roger Lewis 20 20 36 36 76 29
30 Colin Jarvis 36 32 27 23 82 30
39 Pete Hyde 31 28 31 25 84 31
50 Jamie Dunbar Smith 32 31 32 22 85 32
1 Andy Walden 30 30 28 36 88 33
34 Dawn Aloof 36 36 30 27 93 34
45 Amanda Mortier 36 36 26 36 98 35

By: Gordon Sanders

Gordon Sanders — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:24:13 +0000

What a brilliant weekend and I am sure there will be some excellent stories coming out of it that will be suitably embelished by the time they are published. For me the funniest episode of the weekend (apart from beating Barry) was watching Sandstar with Steve and Peter approach the leeward mark in the first race on Saturday. As we approached the mark we could see another fleet of boats in the distance preparing for a start, what did not become apparant until we were much closer was that our turning mark was also the pin end of their line. Well Pete coulld not have timed it better. He was reaching in a great speed on port and they were reaching towards him also at great speed on starboard, both aiming at the same mark. As luck would have it he didn’t quite make it, much to the enjoyment of all the other TBYC boats who were in close enough proximity to see the incident develop. The childish giggling could be heard from all the TBYC boats which got louder and louder every time they ducked another boat. I think I counted about 15 ducks before Pete managed to find a gap to squeeze through by which time Asquith was in such a state that he had to be picked up off the cockpit sole and stuck back on his piece of scaffolding tube (which was now our only means of pointing the boat in the right direction). As luck would have it, by the time we arrived at the said mark, only 20 second later, it was completly clear and as we say the rest is history!
There are plenty more where that came from!!!!

By: Struan Wallace

Struan Wallace — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:18:32 +0000

Well done boys, Glad I was tucked up in bed drinking Coco.