Update : Lots of members are away (Easter and all that) so I was expecting the Club to be quiet. Not so!!

It was a cracking blue sky day with bags of top end A rig breezes around. Out on the water, the Proteus design work-up was well under way. Craig and Nigel had Proteus N and Proteus N+1 out there, and Phil H was driving Craig’s original Vanilla IOM design as a benchmark.

I’m ‘off games’ so was delighted to find Hugh and Rob V measuring up Rob’s new F6 Marblehead which Rob hopes to campaign to the Worlds.

I’d seen some IOM measuring previously but it was really interesting to see Hugh getting the rigs registered for the Marblehead. Learned a whole lot from both of them, I can tell you.

After a jolly sociable lunch, Craig and Nigel continued the Proteus calibrate-and-practice routine on the north course. To my eye, Proteus N and N+1 were performing very similarly indeed as the gusts swept through the course. Nigel was especially happy with the rig pre-bend now. I shall not reveal what “N” has reached, but it’s pretty amazing!!