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Marblehead-uary … February Marblehead Events!!

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February will turn out to be a big month for Marbleheads at Datchet…

We have Marblehead GAMES2 on Saturday 15th and a two day Ranking Event on the weekend of 22nd/23rd February.

So two things:-

1/. If you are going to enter, please load your enrolment via the MYA Events page so we can see where we are on numbers.

2/ If you are not racing, but would love to help out, then our Sailing Secretary, Hugh, is calling for volunteers for the event roster. If you do not have Hugh’s contact points then just drop us a members-whatsapp or pop us an email on the CONTACT page of this website. (see menu bar above). All hands really welcome. Loads to do.

IOM Sunday – What a Breeze! (Storm Eowyn!!)

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We had a good fleet of IOMs on Sunday. We had nine put their names down in WhatsApp, and possibly eight or seven in attendance. And Boy… did it blow!! We went out on B Rigs and later moved to C Rigs.

The club was bustling with an inter-university team race championship so there were firefly dinghies zooming all over the place. At 11am the proper gusts (40-50mph) were meant to arrive. I happened to be standing on the end of the pontoon when the first squall arrived – practically blew me off my feet. The Club lifejacket rule makes sense!

As the students came in, so do did our B rigged fleet. We all huddled in the clubhouse, then suddenly Craig, Nigel and Dorian fancied a C rig outing and off they went. Immense fun to watch.

Sunday 19th January – Marbleheads !!

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Even with three top members away at Poole today (IOM), we still had a super eight boat fleet of Marbleheads – six of which were F6’s!! Rob and CJ Vice were with us, which was great!! Racing was frankly fantastic!! Light swing rig breezes and HM as always set a great course. Great chatter in the clubhouse too, which in itself was snug and alluring!! It didn’t rain or anything but the temperature probably topped at 2 degrees 🙂