Icicle Series

A long overdue catchup…

Well over the winter I have been sailing this year. I took part in most of the Icicle Series at Bough Beech Sailing Club.

I took part in each of the morning races but due to the weather and other factors I was unable to take part in the afternoons.

For this I sailed the Laser, this is a boat that I acquired last May in a swap for the RS800 that I owned. The sail was in particularly poor condition and I did struggle to attain any reasonable results with it in the lighter conditions. As a result of this I placed an order for a new Maldon Sailboats replica sail of the latest design. This was going to take a few weeks to arrive. When the sail did finally arrive I was able to take it out for the last weekends sailing and it made a marked improvement. I was able to point as high as the other boats and had much better boat speed than before. This meant that instead of struggling to keep up with the other boats I was at the front of the pack and finished first Laser in that race.

Overall the Icicle series lived up to its name, it was cold and 1 week we even had snow. My results may not have been that good but it was an enjoyable series of races.

 

Updates

Apologies for not posting for a while, we have been so busy and time just seems to fly at the moment!

An update of what is happening though. We are selling the National 12 :-(. Sad but has to be done. The Tasar is a much better boat for us, Dan is just generally in love with it, the only thing that could make it better would be if it had a spinnaker, and I prefer sailing it as I find cleating the jib sheets much easier. The National 12 has been a labour of love over the past 3 years and we hope she will go to a good home, we would love to keep her, however we don’t have the space to keep her and we need the money.

Moving on to happier things, Dan has recently been to the B14 European Championships down in Rock, Cornwall. I was going to go with him but decided at the last minute that it’s not a world that I am a part of. I would rather be in one of the boats rather than jealously watching from the shore :-P. I will therefore allow him to regale all of the tales of that trip of which there were a few…