So how many boats were there? are there any pictures and the results?

20 boats.

Lovely sail.

Andy Harris first, William Waren second.

Lots of pictures on the ranelagh computer, don't know if they get published anywhere.

Was there any wind then? or was it dead?
Did you sail?
Who came 3rd and 4th do you know?

Yes I crewed Natt, there was plenty enough wind, we came 8th,

Hywell Perkins came 7th.

We've got loads of nice pictures and I'll get the best up on the Ranelagh web pages in the next few days.
Nick

3rd was Duncan Salmon and 4th John Brockbank, 5th was Tosh
Nick

Dont know were they got the John from Its Colin Brockbank
Really enjoyed the sail but a tad short, think we only sailed for about 1 hr 20 minutes
I now know Fulham football ground is the place to go against the tide 
How can you look left from the clubhouse and see Wembley stadium rising, should call it Heathrow stadium
See you all at Cookham

Sorry Colin, Does look a bit like John on the entry form. 1st 4 boats all within 1 minute 20secs.
Nick

If you want to sail for longer, just go slower, like me <8-)}

Andrew what position did you come?

All a bit easy actually - next year I might really try and see if I can lap the lot of you!

Sorry that comment was not posted by me !!

Although it was all rather easy and I did get a bit bored towards the end, luckily Sara volunteered to helm the last couple of laps while I had a kip in the bottom of the boat.

Andy (World Champ)

Were you asking me Natalie?  I was counting off the back of the fleet.  There were 4 or 5 boats finishing behind me, Richard Page and ace crew finished ahead after reconstructing the boat and starting again.  I think there are issues with the long carbon-fibre hog-stepped mast,transom-sheeted rig that Mervyn has fitted on Elusive now and I couldn't get the boat to point or even go at any speed to windward.  I don't think it was me as we were OK downwind, at least hung onto aforesaid Richard P all the way down a run & the problems got worse as the wind piped up during the race.  Still, definitely the best conditions I have sailed in at Ranelagh for some while if you discount the air and water temperature!  We had a near miss at capsizing when the centreboard came up & I now remember just what a brilliant roll you can have in an NSM2 downwind especially after a rusty gybe with the spinny all wrapped up all over the place.

Andrew (definitely not Harris)

Photos are now on the Ranelagh web site. Courtesy of Tom Robb and Steve Arbuthnot.
Nick

I retract all my previous comments posing as Andy Harris on the Forum and apologize to Andrew and everybody else reading this thread.  

To be honest, I have always been envious of Andrew and could not help myself from trying to belittle his achievement.

Apologies once again

David Vines

Wrong man Andrew!

Well done at Ranelaugh - may go someway to relieving that chip!

Get her...

Children!

I'm sure I saw more pictures than that on the computer at rutland, Where are they?

I have more pictures. Please email me with details of your boat and I'll send them on.
Is anyone doing a report for these pages and Yachts & yachting? I have already sent in some pictures.
Nick