Hard Graft II

Following the awesome effort during October, Tollesbury Parish Council and Tollesbury Sailing Club arranged a follow up “Washdown” to prepare Tollesbury Hard for the forthcoming season. The progressive removal of mud from the Hard is enabling a large section of the Hard to be recovered, which means cleaner launching and recovery and also enables launching further down the Hard,…

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Commodore at Düsseldorf

The Dusseldorf Boat Show 2019 My memories of the last few London Boat Shows (LBS) were that you had to fight your way past dozens of stands selling expensive cars, garden furniture, BBQ’s and those wonderful widgets for preparing food which look great when demonstrated but take the tops of your fingers off when you try them at home,…

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Kings Head Cup

Always a good race, the light winds made for a challenging sail and gave the smaller boats an advantage, as the larger ones could not get anywhere near their potential hull speeds. The tide did most of the work for them with the tide turning just as the leading boats reached the top of Osea Island. The race was…

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Classic photos of the classics …

Many thanks to Derek for some great photos of the Smacks and Classics race on September 29th. Do contact him (derek.burchell @ btinternet.com – remove spaces before emailing) if you would like a full size version of the file. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]

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2017 Smack and Classic Race

A discouraging forecast meant that numbers were down for the Tollesbury Smack and Classic Race, sailed in winds gusting from Force 5 to 7. Two Classic yachts came to the line and at the finish only a few seconds separated them on corrected time. TSC’s ‘Cygnet of Arden’ took Line Honours but the race was won by ‘Framat’, I…

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Kings Head Cup

A disappointing turnout of only six boats, as the winds stayed kind. The rain also held off until the race had finished. ‘Rhumba’ sailed a great race as usual, finishing within a minute of the much longer Bavaria and taking the race on corrected time. ‘Rhumba’ sailed so fast, they even had sufficient water to get back into the…

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