C'mon then - time to tell your tales. What was the best bit of the week for you? Who made a silly mistake and threw it all away? Did Natt break anything? Was Ross sick whilst sailing? Did your kids eat more sand than mine?

What a great week it was!
I need your photos - please! There were lots of us out there recording the antics. So please share.
I can't promise to put them all in the magazine but I will send others onto Mags for the website.
Send digital shots at the highest resolution possible please - cd's are better than email if the resolution is anywhere near good. Prints are fine for the 'real' photographers.
My address is in all the yearbooks etc or work is easy:
8 Chippenham Mews, London W9 2AW

Pat Blake

Who else thinks that Friday mornings race should have been postponed ?, there was no wind on the line, and all the top boats Pumped (or over accessive tacking)  there way to the bouy.
If the line had been moved, Commettee boat used then the race would have been far better and no cheating required.
It just marred the end to a good week of sailing.

Can anyone remember who the professional photograpers on the water were?  I should like to visit their websites and spend some more money.

I have to agree with you :-( it spolit the week for me trying to sail in the last race.. I thought they would postpone the start for at least 30mins and wait for the wind to fill in.. To make matters worse was watching all those in the afternoon having a cracking sail.. Still was a good week though..

Deep Pockets, give me a call or let me have your email address and I will get Pete's phone no for you. He does not have a web site.

I also understand the comments about Friday mornings race and will draw it to the relevant persons attention!

dont you dare - friday mornings start was the highlight of my week, as i (might have, almost) led the fleet for almost 30 seconds! some of it was luck of course, but lets pretend part of it was down to me too!!!!

i was in ecstasy! what a feeling!
after a few moments everyone else zoomed past me...and i ended the race 4th from last as usual, oh well.

low point of the week was wednesday, where i was attempting to get the rudder back down after removing weed, hit a gust, swung into a moored yacht, and smashed my gunwhale all across lawrie's lovely repair from last year.

for some reason my crew seemed unconcerned with this, and didnt move as we spun round with the spinny flapping. he just sat in the middle of the boat, holding his thumb and bleeding all over the centreboard case.

i now feel doubly embarrassed and stupid. but thanks to the two stand-in's john murrel recruited for me - nathan and tom - i was able to race the last 2 days. cheers guys!
and thanks to my crew for still talking to me...

Fantastic week for weather.  Tragic that my best result of the week (30th) was on the day of the comedy rudder incident that got me 2nd place in the Thompson Paddle competition.  Which story I will now relate.  After the best start of the week for me I was in Sunny Cove trying to sneak round the windward side of (I think) Pocket Rocket when I noticed a distinct absence of water underneath the boat.  I indicated to said leeward boat that my rudder was fixed, to be told that I shouldn't have gone there in the 1st place & it was my problem.  Ah well, but by the time I had tried to slow down to get round the back of him the rudder had touched, so I took it off.  It's very difficult to get a rudder back onto a boat moving quickly under spinny!  So after dropping the kite and doing a series of gyrations we rejoined the race about 20 places down.  Started to pick up again, then just after passing Rob Heath at Snapes Point, going into the bag, the rudder fell off again, some idiot had forgotten to put the shock-cord over the top.  This time I dropped it altogether!  Kite down, gybe and tack (rudderless) back to where rudder is floating, but we miss it by a mile.  2nd go is more successful & we pass within a tantalising 4 feet.  So I launch myself off the side of the boat intent on recovering it at all costs and with the very tips of my toes only under the toestraps.  Head and upper body submerge but I come up triumphant with the rudder.  Ellie has been a bit disconcerted by my dive off the side and has come to my aid and is holding onto my ankles lest I abandon her in a rudderless boat!  Somehow I get back into the boat and shove the wretched device back onto the pintles, to the applause of the attendant rescue boat.  This leaves us dead LAST with the next boat 40 yds ahead.

The next run & beat we pick up 15 places as Wembley find it neccessary to hunt in packs and are all shouting at one another up the R hand side of the run to Gerston leaving clear air all the way up the other side.

Team Heaven Sent 3511

Nope I didnt break anything...for once. Had a really enjoyable sail all week actually, pretty happy with my result aswel. One of the other things i enjoyed at salcombe was seeing basking sharks in the second week, was a bit scary though as they were very close! Did any one else see them?

Went to Shoreham today for silver tiller, but decided to come home and sail at hampton as we were worried of breaking another mast, considering it was quite windy! Dont want another broken mast exspecially with the champs coming up, so I hope no one breaks anything! Any of you going to the champs?