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.
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.
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”https://www.yachtingworld.com/events-2/how-to-watch-paris-2024-olympic-sailing-competition-152194
Some pics of the RS Aero 6/9 Nationals at Felpham SC, nearly all are by Jonathon Bailey @jonathan.2442. Read the full event report.
Sailors and boats are gathering on the beach and starting to launch.
There were around 60 boats in all, the day one starts were tricky in the very light winds with a short start line. This contributed to a good number of general recalls.
Continue reading “Felpham May 2024”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.
This was a great start to the year and I finished just under halfway down the fleet which was an open event personal best. There’s a separate Starcross Steamer post.
Last Sunday saw the first race and first open event of 2023, the Starcross Steamer, a handicap pursuit race on the Exe estuary in the UK.
Pursuit races are a great fun race format. All boat classes have a handicap, the race has a fixed length (e.g. 150 mins), slower boats start first, faster boats later with the idea being everyone is trying to catch up to and overtake everyone else. After the fixed race time, the race is stopped, and positions are taken by the safety boats.
It was an early start to the day, and we were rewarded with some lovely views.
Continue reading “Starcross Steamer Jan 2023”Looking back, 2022 was a great year on the water. My main sailing goal for the year was to compete in the RS Aero Championships, a five day event. The months of training were a success and I managed all five days.
Klaus Harris 