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Datchet IOM Worlds – Coming Up….!!

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It’s 3rd June. About ten days after the Worlds.

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.

Marblehead Sunday 29th March…!!

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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!

Marblehead Racing – Club Series 15th March

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It was a brilliant bright day that greeted us. Clear, very clear, light and the lake appeared to be boiling….white horses all over the place. There was a large open meeting on for Flying Fifteens, wayfarers and wanderers so our South course venue at the main pontoon was impractical. HM did a super job with a compromised north course – with a new aluminium launching platform!!

The ‘big boys’ were away at Woodspring. So the hard core were ready to race at home!

It was meant to be five of us, then Phil was on family commitments – it being Mothers Day I guess. Then there were four.

It was quite obviously a C Rig kind of day (15-20 gusting 35 plus) , and out we went for a half hour blast through the waves(big). That was enough to sort RJ’s little used C rig – and the jib tack was sawed through by something. Very lucky not to dismast!! Then there were three.

The boats just flew. Race one was really fast – GH really superbly quick downwind – but the breeze continued to build. The guys came ashore for C2 discussions and quick rig resets. Then I notice JLR tightened up his main leech and definitely changed gear … improved pointing …… while GH seemed to go EVEN quicker. There were two spectacular ” an inch in it” kind of reaching finishes. Just brilliant to watch !!

Then the wind blew up even more (a lot more) and HM declared racing cancelled in favour of bacon rolls and tea. Job done – good day!