In the UK, you can sometimes count truly perfect weather days per year on your hand. This day was one of them. Fish and chips by the sea on a sunny day, perfect.
April sun
Author: Klaus Harris
Old Harry Rocks with a super low tide
I’ve posted a couple photos of Old Harry Rocks (Google Maps, Wikipedia) in the past, usually from quite a distance, and those photos always look a bit like this:
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RS Aero Training Feb 2025
Despite poor wind conditions, it was excellent, we learned a ton and it was glorious to nerd out on sailing for a couple of days.
Continue reading “RS Aero Training Feb 2025”Jan 2025
Tres Hombres
This sailing ship is the Tres Hombres. She lay at anchor in Swanage Bay in December 2024 sheltering from Storm Darragh. In these pictures, Tres Hombres had just rounded Peveril Point on her way west to Martinique.
View her current location on Vesselfinder.
ILCA / Aero Racing Poole Yacht Club, Nov 2024
Swanage’s racing has ended for 2024, and I’ve started sailing at Poole Yacht Club again now in Poole Harbour. PYC has an excellent Aero/ILCA fleet and race over the winter. The Saturday morning format is five short back-to-back races on a square outer loop course.
We had light winds and murky weather yesterday. After the race, I had a sail around Poole Harbour which was fun.
Shell Bay, Dorset, UK
RS Aero Worlds 2024
There seems to be a rhythm to my sailing year and there is always one big event that focuses my training for the year. In 2024 it was the RS Aero world championships in August at Hayling Island, a five-day event.
I’d trained hard and was in pretty good shape going into the event, and went with the 7m rig which is my natural rig size. The wind turned out to be light for most of the days, so I could probably have stepped up to the 9m rig.
Continue reading “RS Aero Worlds 2024”Wales August 2024
I found it impossible to not have a boat picture first. This is the view from Conway Castle.
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