Richards back

well richard was back on MBM7424 so we decided to go to poole bar bouy

we went out to see on beat and just kept going at a steady rate we seen alan knowles and his friend john who said they were sailing in the bay, they were actually off old harry .  Alan has a mirror
we looked for the angle to tack back into the bar bouy and it was such an angle we decided that Bournmouth pier was more inviting, as the wind picked up with clean air we were zipping along.
the BOURNMOTH EYE was spotted and was dead on the port bow all the way. we looked back at the clouds and i thought  hmmm not looking forward to the trip home.
eventually after 1h 19m we got to Bournmouth pier and took some pics to prove it.
we turned for home assuming it was a reach broad reach and we made very good progress as a squall over studland came over, we were hitting some good waves but at a good speed, we made old harry within 15 mins, we were motoring. We kept on the same heading all the way untill we got to peverill and tacked back into the bay toward the mowlem, and then toward  the old pier,
We were back on shore withing 2h 15 from beach leaving to beach arriving, the last bit was the slowest so with this taken into account the trip must have been my fastest ever trip to Bournemouth and back EVER.

THE START OF OUR UNEXPECTED BOURNEMOUTH PIER TRIP

THE BOURNEMOUTH EYE

POSING FOR PICS WITH THE BOURNEMOUTH EYE

   

Swanage Regatta 2014

duty on the saturday so we could do the races on sunday
beachmaster morning and afternoon
and do the results with desney and christine. managed to do them after being shown for r3 and r4 on my own.
in the evening we had a bbq meal and did bar duty with greg and mike mcvey before the fireworks,

wind on the day was gusting 25knts w-sw

on the sunday 8 boats signed on.
i had clive stracey as my crew. he had not crewed with me since the hurricane .
unfortunatly he couldnt trapeze because of his back and hips but we managed.
we managed to sail backwards in the fleet to 8th spot and thats where we stayed , it was good fun sailing and challenging for us both. not sure we sailed the course as economic as we could have but only one messed up tack was all i did wrong. finnished 8th both times.  sailed in had lunch and decided to call it a day.
i felt more confident sailing in stronger winds and as i had hardly raced all season felt i had done ok.
also filmed on head cam so screenshots later.

race 2 gps track