Hope you enjoy this short video of our epic day racing around the island on ‘Windchat’ – Peter May’s Cutlass 27′ – here’s the crew list. Continue reading Round the Island Race 2016 Video
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Blog posts & articles sharing experience during sailing races. These include the Round the Island Race & other offshore sailing races.
Round the Island 2016 Crew List
This year’s crew is racing on Pete’s restored Cutlass 27 ‘Windchat’. We’ve sailed together for the last 5 years but this is the first time we’ve ventured on to an owned boat and downsized below 37′ for the race itself. Continue reading Round the Island 2016 Crew List
Round the Island 2016 on Windchat
This year we’re crewing on Pete the Knot‘s Marcon Cutlass 27 Mark III ‘Windchat’. Built by his dad and two mates in 1973 two years before he was born, Pete bought it in 2015 for £10 and has spent considerably more restoring it in the boatyard she was built in. Continue reading Round the Island 2016 on Windchat
Round the Island – So what went wrong?
After a week or so to reflect on our Round the Island Race perhaps the question should be “What could we have done differently?” Continue reading Round the Island – So what went wrong?