Regatta Victory

The Orange Regatta was simply amazing. Our crew of seven Gybed, Tacked and Ran Sunsail 53 to resounding victory. I spent much of the time at the helm, as the picture shows but sailing is a true test of teamwork and most of the credit goes to the skipper and assistant. The picture also shows Capt. Mike on the left and foredeck man Mark on the right. We were victorious in four out of five races and were second in the fifth. Dropping our worst result gave us a perfect grand score of 3.0.  

On Monday, the wind was a little light making the races very technical, but by Tuesday afternoon the wind was 4-5 and it all got quite dramatic (a bit too dramatic sometimes)!

You can see all the photo's I took in my online album. All you need to do is follow this link

Orange Regatta Photographs

A sailing we go

Ahoy,

I'm off sailing this afternoon. Monday and Tuesday will see me, and about 60 others from Orange, racing between Portsmouth and Cowes. Sounds like fun doesn't it? I'll post all the pictures when I return.

Shiver me timbers.

This just a test of some new functionality. Hope it works because it will allow me to post images straight into the Blog. Incidentally, this picture was taken in Prato Nevoso in January this year. 

The Emperor's New Clothes

After much delay, here is the new look to my blog. I'll not pretend that it is anything to do with me though. Thankfully, a whole bunch of new templates are available on Blogger. This one is my favourite.

The 'external links' bit has disappeared, but I'll use my considerable expertise in CSS(!) to rectify that in time.