We are lucky as East Coast sailors that there is a wealth of information available to support us online. With some fairly tricky pilotage for many of our harbours, it is a great help for us that there is an intrepid band of sailors who survey the harbours regularly and put the results online. Follow the links below for…
We have two new times for sailing this year: Friday evenings and Sunday mornings. This Friday’s races were perhaps a touch early with a 5 pm start; I should have taken advantage of the hour’s later tide on Saturday evening as cadets haven’t started sailing yet. I made another cock-up on Sunday, having set the start time for Saturday…
How well do you know your racing rules? The site below was recently recommended as a way to see how well you know your racing rules. It is a quiz with three different levels – easy, medium or difficult. Why not have a go and see how you get on? Follow the link below to access the main quiz…
Crash test boat Over the last year Yachting Monthly has been carrying out a unique experiment. They were given an old 40 foot Jeanneau SunFizz which they then, in the name of research, proceeded to destroy! After running the boat aground to see the best way to get off, they then decided to put a hole in the bottom,…
It was a gloomy and cold start to the 2012 Sunrise Series. Only three crews were April Foolish enough to brave the frosty conditions, drift off the hard and slowly inch their way up Tollesbury creek in very light airs. The support boat crew were either snuggled up in bed or unexpectedly working, so Rik and John Bellman did…
UPDATE 30/09/2022 Hi everyone, we have decided that tomorrow’s…
Tollesbury Sailing Club 2021 Smacks and Classics Race,…
