I’ve been joining the Poole Yacht Club ILCA / Aero fleet on Saturdays so far this year as my local club does no racing over the Winter. The Saturday format is a micro regatta of five short back-to-back races which is great for practising starts.

I’m enjoying sailing in Poole Harbour again and it’s been fun to have different tides to play in.

I also did the RYA VHF marine radio course, which is a globally recognised qualification. This is a great course; not only did we learn to deal with regular comms and emergency situations, but we also learned a lot about how communications across rescue services work.

How digital comms has been added to VHF radio communications is super interesting.

2024 Lookahead

The calendar has some open events in it already, but the main event for 2024 will be the RS Aero World Championships, which this year happens to be on the English South Coast, not too far away.

It’ll be five days of sailing, and my training campaign has already started. 🙂