Category Archives: Marblehead Specific

Sunday 22nd June – Marbleheads ….!!

Totally brilliant day today. A bright, bright, unforgettable light over the reservoir and a building breeze of the 15 gusting 30+ variety. B rigs all around! It was really fast moving.

Our numbers were lower, but we were expecting 6 and got 5,… our fellow member number 6 needed a day with his feet up !! (Hope you feel improved now, H !) We had a stonking breeze and a huge amount of fun. We raced pretty much a full programme of two half sessions. Until about ten days ago I’d hardly used my B and never used my C, so all the new bits of string got a fair stress test today 🙂

The commodore had a pretty strong results day, but the other joy was Graham’s newly fettled boat was really flying and scoring highly.

Meanwhile our fellow members were also doing brilliantly at Eastbourne and Keighley. I haven’t seen the final results yet for the IOMs at Eastbourne but rumour has it that Craig, Dorian and Nigel scored a 1,2,3 there. We also had three members at the RG65 Nationals in Keighley and where Rohan scored a 5th in a pretty talented and big-name field. I gather it was breezy there too!!

Datchet Marblehead Saturday….Amazing !!

Honestly, we had simply stunning Marblehead “Development” Day today!

We were going to be on One Metres tomorrow (Sunday), but our RO cancelled that as Guildford RSC asked to borrow the lake for Marblehead Games 5. Well, it’s Father’s Day tomorrow so somehow the proposal became to switch Ten Rater Saturday for Marblehead day and all be good Daddys tomorrow.

We had a blast!! It was an amazing Datchet day – bright crisp light across 500 acres of water, and a stonking B-C Rig breeze. Big waves too after the overnight storms. Amazing sailing. Very fast.

We were expecting to be group of four, but three of us turned up and we kicked off with the inaugural minuted committee meeting of “Datchet IOM Worlds Banking” so that we can get the nice people of Santander to open a separate bank account for us for 2026. (AML makes it not as easy as it sounds!)

We ran the morning on the south course with three F6 Marbleheads. Philip was great and in coach mode, Graham and Richard eagerly learning. We had proper starts, and used our regular marks – in the waves and gusts it made good for tacking practice.

A great day. Never used my C Rig before – Learned a whole lot.