"We didnt do to badly in Mignon the Fife designed and built one fifth scale model of Shamrock 1, coming second in the Classics. On board were Bob Fisher, Jim Saltonstall MBE (coaching legend), Mike Savage (climbing guru) and me.\r\nFinished at 21.22.10 just inside the time limit. Long day as we were up at 3am and back at half hour past midnight the next day."
Posted: 14/01/2014 17:39:10 By: Barry Dunning |
"The Merlin Rocket 'Hall of Fame' has to add yet another name after the marathon yesterday that was the Round the Island Race. For 90 minutes it looked as if the Hanse 291, sailed by Lymington yotter Andy Hind (who is normally found in 3478, Terrabyte), would take top honours on corrected time. Then as the shadows lengthened, a Folkboat crept in and by just 2 minutes on corrected time pushed our man back to second.\r\n\r\nAndy's crew included Colin Merritt, who has also been seen recently in a Merlin Rocket (after having been fed into a wetsuit!). Given the conditions yesterday, this is one of the great performances, well done to all on board.\r\n\r\nDougal"
Posted: 22/06/2014 09:05:32 By: Dougal |