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.