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Round the Island Race Training Day
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Round the Island Race Training Day

26 June 2015 Paul Blacknell Leave a comment

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 →

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Round the Island Race Crew List 2015
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Round the Island Race Crew List 2015

22 June 2015 Paul Blacknell Leave a comment

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 →

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My biggest regret about sailing
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My biggest regret about sailing

16 February 2015 Paul Blacknell 3 Comments

I’ve been sailing for now for 4 years and I’ve commented several times that my biggest regret was that I didn’t Continue reading My biggest regret about sailing →

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Chichester to Hamble
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Chichester to Hamble

14 September 2014 Paul Blacknell Leave a comment

I’d called the lock keeper at Chichester on the VHF the previous evening and he was estimating we might clear the channel outside the marina by 1100. We were listening Continue reading Chichester to Hamble →

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