Bob cooked bacon sandwiches as we motored down the Hamble which is probably the best way to start a day in the world and we could see the hundreds of boats milling about over Bramble Bank and towards Cowes. Continue reading Round the Island Race 2015
Category Archives: Racing
Blog posts & articles sharing experience during sailing races. These include the Round the Island Race & other offshore sailing races.
Round the Island Race Training Day
The Nomad 1 crew arrived at Gosport Marina for sustenance and banter on Thursday evening. Four of us had sailed together before, joined by Debbie a professor in molecular physiology which as with all of our professional lives was to prove useless on the Solent. Continue reading Round the Island Race Training Day
Round the Island Race Crew List 2015
This year’s crew of Nomad 1 are all graduates of Nomad Sailing. For the second year now Jim & Lou have let us loose on their beloved Jeanneau Sunfast 37′. Lou is skippering Dignity, another Sunfast 37′ and is determined to beat us. Continue reading Round the Island Race Crew List 2015
Round the Island 2014 Gallery
I didn’t have time in 2014 to write up a race report but here are some photos taken by the crew during our campaign. Continue reading Round the Island 2014 Gallery