You have to catch Jacko's report.
Pity we have to wait till August for our Silver Tiller there.

Anyone can come, entry is only a tenner for the whole series. See the Harlow Blackwater web site for more details

Thanks for the link Pat it's a gem!  The man is an artist at the keyboard as well as with the black stuff

Humble as I am to be able to put aye thing back into club sailing I am blessed with having the most enthusiastic gathering of Merlin wizards to be in a small and growing fleet
I am looking for wards of Merlin wisdom in response the my clubbies request can you help view response below

Alan
I read with pride your Yot&Yotters report of the Wooly Hat openers.  If you are at the club this Sunday perhaps you would explain what we did in the pre-splat moments, and better still what not to do to avoid future opportunities.   Despite your expected mirth at our expense it will probably be more entertaining than mixing concrete.   ( I have a case of left arm string puller’s tennis elbow after the last outing, compounding the effects of the last winter series race, and will welcome the opportunity to not concrete mix).
Despite the race 2 spat, and orienteering and driving errors of race 1, I enjoyed the sailing.
I e-mailed Ron to apologise for my driving.   I tacked onto starboard in front of Ron (on starboard) and caused, or allowed with a bit of an effort from Ron a light touch - my fault; Tony had told me to tack but I delayed until I had some balance - we did our turns.
Earlier Ron had done something similar, tacking onto port.   He had been below and a little in front of us on the starboard beat from 5 to the south bank where we had recovered 4 or 5 boatlengths (of his 6 or 7 boatlength lead at ‘5’) and climbed 2 boatlengths above Ron.   When Ron tacked we had to duck hard to avoid a hard collision somewhere between Ron’s thwart and transom.   We kept on asking for turns and Ron eventually (complied to his credit after the bumpercar moment which had occurred later in the lap at ‘3’).
Ducking Ron had cost us a lot of hard earnt water.   Arguably if Ron had done his turns immediately the second bumpercar incident would not have occurred - we would have gone, but turns all round was fair enough.   The good bit in all this was the realisation that Ron was faster downwind but not massively so, and in Sundays wind we were beating faster than Ron.
But no.   Ron reckons he had only course rig tension on, and failed to use the fine rig tension string, so that he had not enough rig tension, no pointing and no upwind speed!   So we weren’t going raster than Ron after all.
    
Regards
Chris

Innocent of all charges your honour

The Harlow Merlins need some help pushing Jacko down the results; come and help us put him in his place.
The home grown effort has now been strengthened by Lauwrence Maudsley's purchase of plastic Turner Tales 'Coyote'; he was slow last weekend, hampered by unfamiliar strings and new crew - but will surely get faster.
Despite the new arrival we need help in the Jacko thrashing department, and if we can learn in the process it would be a bonus.
We have sailed 4 of the 12 races planned.   Some early tides are restrictive, limiting us to one early race but most weekends have 2 races back-to-back.   Our web site www.harlow-blackwater-sc.org.uk has the dates and location map.....come and thrash us!

I enjoy a good thrashing!!!!!!

Remember to start working on Jacko (and his crew)  long before lauching- and then follow up the work in the bar aftewards.

Worked for us at Up River (after a few years).

Regards

Ian