Last Sunday, M Games 5 was held at Littleton. A modest but lively fleet of seven, of which Phil, Chris, Graham and Jim were the Datchet Team.
The full report will appear soon, I’m sure – but spoiler alert …. Phil properly cleaned up in his F6. Amazing. Discarded two seconds and a fourth.
Given what we just went through with the IOM Worlds, I’m full of admiration that the guys turned out at all – with their lovely F6s. I’m still horizontal with fatigue, and all family weekend passes are still cancelled !!
We are nearing the end of duties now. For myself, I’ve put the scoring systems away (the team are having a lie down!) and I am working hard to close the Championship accounts, …and already we are helping re-use the Worlds legacy knowledge to support Jim and the boys running the DF65 Nationals this weekend coming. Good luck to the East Kent Members at Barton’s Point !
In the rear view mirror, you get to appreciate how much we have learned putting many months of hard work behind us. In the coming days and weeks we shall look to reflect and digest – and place some of our knowledge on this website to help other Clubs run their events. In coming weeks, we are thinking of reporting to you on:-
the Robot Race-Buoys Age has finally arrived. What’s the Business Case?
the Amazing IOM2026 dedicated Website
Parallel Scoring : how to plan you’ll actually reach the last day… with flawless and audited results
Live-streaming and What we Learned
Making the Commentators’ life slightly easier : hand held tech commentary aids
The Hugely Important Role of Volunteers, How to Pull It All Together
What Drives Cost to run a Championship at this scale
How to Plan and Execute a Regatta at this Scale
Those Amazing Worlds Trophies provided by Robot Yachts – What it takes to Design and Make Trophies like that (if I can talk Tony and James into telling us!)
AI and writing Press reports quickly !! (Yes – a lot of what you read was AI generated !! Frighteningly good.)
Flags, banners, special flags and …. Flagpoles!
Campsite Management and building an enduring Club Asset
Scrutineering and Workflow
WhatsApp : Totally Central to Organising and Running a 2026 Championship
Special Technologies that can lend a hand : Satellite Comms, Waterproof Tablets, Portable Credit Card Readers, Buoybots, RTK, Application of AI – and more
Just how much do 84 competitors and 40 volunteers drink in a hot week?
Auditable International and Domestic Banking … not as trivial as you’d think
Do we learn anything for the Future of Our Sport
If there is anything else you’d like to hear about, simply let his know via the Contacts page of this website.
Today’s (29th March) Marblehead results after 8 races:
1st Hugh 8pts 4 wins 2nd Graham 13pts 1 win 3rd Phil 14pts 3 wins 4th Chris 27 pts 5th Jim 42 pts
To be fair Phil missed some races as he was otherwise engaged for a while. Jim missed most of the races on a bit of a mechanical. Chris had some loose winch mounting problems so also missed some races. It was a fresh breeze some started with A rigs and rapidly changed to B. After a coffee break it was a quick change to C1s and should really have been C2s by the last two races. Richard U came on boat delivery duty but was feeling under the weather and went home again to recline on his sick bed. Richard J was engaged on family duties!
Datchet Radio Sailing - Making It All Much Easier !! 