Basilica – credit Mark Lloyd/Lloyd Images
Thanks to Chris for this report of his Monster weekend.
MONSTER MONSTER!
Over a period of four hours, 40 weather beaten and battered
catamaran crews dragged themselves and their boats up the steep
shingle beach close to the Dores Inn after taking on the Marine
Design International Loch Ness Monster Race on Saturday 25th August. (more…)
Me Thinks that after reading this latest going on’s it would appear that PARANOIA may just be setting in fast. LOOK OUT HE’S BEHIND YOU WITH AN ADVANTAGE. check it out at Marks Place
| STRUNTJE LIGHT, GER, leading the fleet in Race 5 |
| Copenhagen, Denmark Photo : Rolex / Daniel Forster |
Rolex Farr 40 fleet takes it light and shifty
After day two of racing in the Rolex Farr 40 World Championship 2007, the top four boats overall are all familiar names – Mascalzone Latino, Alinghi, Nerone, and Barking Mad – all are previous Rolex Farr 40 World Champions. Yet several other boats picked the shifts well enough on a difficult day to move up in the standings. Struntje Light (GER), Siragusawa (FIN), Nanoq (DEN), and Norwegian Steam (NOR) all had a top five race finish – no mean feat in this fleet. The key to this tight one-design class racing is peaking at the right time and those who have managed to do so are trending up in the rankings. (more…)
This is turning out like a pure mad, your claimed round the back of the school story, Come on Russell kick his $*nt IN.
Mark keeps us up to speed with this just released statement, checkout this latest situation “What a mess” get with the programme.
The Bols boat was designed by Hugh Welbourn in the Boatspeed shipyard near Sydney. It was made according to ultramodern technology, with carbon fiber and other state-of-the-art materials. The Bols is rated among the Super Maxi category of yachts, with a hull of 28.3 meters, an impressive mast height of 34 meters, and a uniquely large total sail area of 1,240 square meters. In favorable conditions the boat can exceed 30 knots.
The crew of Whisky Chaser at West highland week 2007 chilling out after a race as there was no Flying Fifteens in the class at this one. Whisky Chaser went on to win there class and some very nice cups that are almost certainly LOST by now, just going to show you that winning is not everything. (Aye that will be right)
Photo Credit: Marine Blast photo division, who’s Ben actually.
What a great weekend that was? thats what everyone says, its the polite thing to do, so thats done. Satuarday saw some brillant wind strenghts for a change ranging from 22-28 knts but got up to 39 kts after a few beers in the pub, along with many speed records getting broken in various classes. The courses where a little disapointing, not because they where Triangles but because you could’nt get a kite set even in a bow sprit boat (see the gallery for proof) however I dont know why it was’nt changed for the second race? Anyway good fun was had by all. The onshore stuff was well sorted I think (well they did’nt run out of beer did they? and there was some nice tits about for something to look at while you drank yer beer.
Short version here, forgot name of B&B but had a key and spend the night checking yale locks for size all the way along the road so sorry about the scratches round yer doors, that was until Colin Yaldi boy fell in some road works, so we just went home, well to a empty stripped out boat with no sleping bags, so that was good I think.
Sundays race report:
We started with lots of boats round us and slowly, oh better change that to quickly, they all got much smaller and vanished, then we got humped on handicap, but it was great anyway. Local Hero won overall for the weekend. other classes also had almost equally well sailed boats and all credit has got to go to Graham Galbraith sailing a Flying Fifteen Funky Chicken to great effect after his week long intense sailing lesson during the Nationals where he harmmered to death the Sonata’’s and bigger yachts.
Also Mr Cameron Still had almost a near perfect score line which just goes to show he was’nt listerning to everything he was told by his crack crew? Thats my account of the weekend but get the grown up version here (more…)
While the court boxing still trades blows, its just like every other situation in life, and I thought this video clearly demonstrates all the ingredients of a typical Americas Cup ”Toys out the Cot” stuff. Although in this case maybe not LOL
We have Mark Chisnell to keep us right up to speed and here are the last two entries which happened over the last few days, THE WAKE UP CALL very quickly followed by this futher development, Taking it Seriously read both and work it out, Look away if you dont want to know the results.
The Overall Winnnner was Geoffery Howison’s Local Hero and winner of Class 1. I will update the site later this evening as I have a lot of chat from the weekend and lots of photos to up load but have to take the Next Mrs Marine Blast to Glasgow for stuff an that, so come back later after 9 ish or see you tomorrow.
Largs Regatta Week starts tomorrow, its one of the big events left in Scotland during the second half of the season. There is always a excellent turnout in all classes. With racing every night for various prizes it finishes next weekend with the double hand round Arran Race or the double handed Ladies Race to Holy Isle. The event has been “The Dogs Bollocks” both on and off the water for years now and looks like being another greaqt year. Marine Blast will be bringing you a report of the regatta on Monday. checkout regatta website with a photo gallery and some video.
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