Bell Lawrie Scottish Series photo collection

Okay I’m anything but a photographer but with the amount of searches Marine Blast is experiencing I thought I had better fling something up till the PRO’s get sorted out. If you have any photos fire them in to us at info@marineblast.com cheers

LR-OR Day 5: Amazing Prestart of J.Spithill video

Checkout this start procedure.

Scottish Series (Dominated by the Irish)

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Winners of the Bell Lawrie Scottish ‘Jump Juice’.

photo credit to Giles – Tiso staff member code name Thunderbird 4

There was NO discount given on the TISO sponsored race track during the Bell Lawrie Scottish Series, as the Irish yacht JUMP JUICE cashed in all its chips and posted a score line of straight firsts after discarding a rogue 4th place.

From the outset Jump Juice dominated Class One with blistering pace and what could only be described as very accurate crew work on every manoeuvre thoughout the series. Tactics where provided by a wee local lad Ruairidh Scott (Fyne Scottish  name) right down to the last shift of the day adding another Bell Lawrie overall title winner to his CV. They where followed closely behind by Scottish yacht Local Hero 20  recent winner of Kip Savills regatta followed by another Irish yacht Antix Dubh. If Bell Lawrie where giving any advice on buying shares I think it may just be to buy as much LEAD  as you can, if the top boats Jump Juice and Blondie 3 were anything to go by. Blondie3 won Class Two with straight firsts and was in contention for the overall prize. 

Marine Blast had the pleasure of sailing onboard TISO THUNDERBIRD during the series, thanks to Chris Tiso and Jon Fitzgerald.

The company Tiso is a long established outdoor retailer both North and now South of the border and being a committed sponsor, thought it about time to actually get involved in the racing this year.  After purchasing the new ‘Tiso sailing starter pack’ a niffty Farr 40 which they are using to help Tiso staff become much more involved in product awareness of their sailing range, team bonding and of course teaching them the ropes along the way. If this weeekend was anything to go by Tiso is onto another winner so look out for their new promotional video some of which was shot during the series.  

Stay tuned over the next few days as we bring you some interesting on and off the water action / madness with a collection of photos and videos, if you do have any to send in (and we do know you have SHUG and SONIC send them) to info@marineblast.com all photos welcome.

In the meantime here are the results

Melges 24 2007 worlds day 5 8-12 ft swell + Heavy Air

Check out this surfing and planning in the big deep blue stuff, totally the dogs bollocks, some great sailing footage from the camera dudes, thanks to Head Injury Media

Nice Video footage of PYEWACKET vs MORNING GLORY

Nice wee clip of two maxi racers during Cork Week 2005, credit goes to Franklin Tulloch at Earthbound Studios

SAVILLS Kip Regatta 2007 (estate agents come back)

 

 Team Local Hero

Credit to Paul Graham and the sponsors SAVILLS for the photos

What a difference a year makes!  Kip Regatta attracted not only a new sponsor in the form of Estate Agents SAVILLS but also over 70 racers for a perfect weekend’s sailing on the Clyde in Scottish waters. This regatta has been the warm up for Scottish Series and if this regatta was anything to go by then Scottish Series is going to be  very interesting.

The weekend belonged to Geoff Howison and the crew of LOCAL HERO sailing a BH41, when the closing date came on Sunday –  Local hero dropped a 3rd and counted 3 bullets ahead of Playing FTSE 47.5 and a stunning 8 metre racing yacht.

Full race report here with results at the bottom of the page.

Britain’s John Gimson, Eamonn O’Nolan finished second in the Melges 24 Pre-Worlds

Britain’s John Gimson, driving for owner Eamonn O’Nolan finished second in the Melges 24 Pre-Worlds, just one point behind winner Chris Larson of the USA. 58 competitors will now catch their breath Monday before plunging into the 2007 Fullpower Melges 24 World Championship, hosted by the Santa Cruz Yacht Club

Suicidal Tendencies at camp SAILROCKET

‘Suicidal Tendencies’

Just watch how hard that little pod gets slammed when the wing comes down.

Watch how quickly it accelerates into the turn when he stops fighting it with the rudder.

Can you believe that the wing is still pretty much intact?

The air rudder seems locked at a pretty coarse angle… but it was a measured 30 degrees.

WHEN MEN WERE MEN and it didn’t matter about how much wind there was to race

Checkout this wee gem, Some will remember when it didn’t matter how much wind there was you just got out there and sailied, some people had launching trolleys, some maybe had wet suits most didn’t think they would catch on. But I just loved the part when you see the guy zipping up his trouser leg zip on his track suit like it was going to make a difference. some great sailing and some not so great, but thats the way it was. THanks to josepinho  for sending in the link.