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Sunday 6th Club Report…!!

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Update : Lots of members are away (Easter and all that) so I was expecting the Club to be quiet. Not so!!

It was a cracking blue sky day with bags of top end A rig breezes around. Out on the water, the Proteus design work-up was well under way. Craig and Nigel had Proteus N and Proteus N+1 out there, and Phil H was driving Craig’s original Vanilla IOM design as a benchmark.

I’m ‘off games’ so was delighted to find Hugh and Rob V measuring up Rob’s new F6 Marblehead which Rob hopes to campaign to the Worlds.

I’d seen some IOM measuring previously but it was really interesting to see Hugh getting the rigs registered for the Marblehead. Learned a whole lot from both of them, I can tell you.

After a jolly sociable lunch, Craig and Nigel continued the Proteus calibrate-and-practice routine on the north course. To my eye, Proteus N and N+1 were performing very similarly indeed as the gusts swept through the course. Nigel was especially happy with the rig pre-bend now. I shall not reveal what “N” has reached, but it’s pretty amazing!!

Chipstead IOM Open at the Lunch Break….!!

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We had three Datchet members (Nigel, Craig, Jim) at Chipstead today and at the lunch break, they were lying in 1,2 and 5. Breezes light and iffy ! Sixteen entrants.

Nigel was playing blinders – race three which he won was especially amazing. As we strolled to lunch, Nigel was modestly saying “it was all luck”, but with a 1,2,1 during the morning Nigel was shaping his own luck. Really impressive 🙂

Craig was in the Proteus development boat today and walked away in race two. I think Craig did actually lap a couple of competitors. That boat couldn’t half accelerate in the lightest of puffs.

Perhaps most pleasing of all, was our Jim … sailing in the Britpop previously owned by Vernon …. was really getting going well !!

(Jim leading the fleet and ahead of Craig – rare keep-sake photo obviously – ha ha ha !!)

Such a lovely setting over at Chipstead and the people there as friendly as always. PRO, Dave, needed his sense of humour today – three general recalls!!

Sunday 12th – No Breeze but a Compelling Day at The Club….!!

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The Clubhouse was very busy owing to a large number of eager Optimist Sailors being held ashore on their training event!! Galley revenues were up!!

It was a misty 1 gusting 2mph kind of day… cold too.

Five of us at the club today. Buddies are forgiven for staying under the duvet – it was minus one…. We’re having a bit of a run with adverse weather, but unexpectedly it turned into an extremely interesting day.

You may have read a week or so ago about Craig’s new IOM designs named Proteus and Nimbus sweeping the podium at the Hampton Court on January 5th. (Nigel won it). They brought two of the design iterations of Proteus for us to see – both Proteus, but several slight differences between the two. They are 3D printed in four sections and immensely strong. I won’t put up all the photos here for the sake of Craig’s confidentiality, but you’ll be interested to see the long distance shots.

The blue boat (54) is Nigel, currently out of camera shot.

Note that as is the 2024/2025 trend, the booms positively hug the deck for improved aero-dynamics. You won’t be able to see it, but they are actually each printed using different material…. part of the experiments. There are also some tests on these of different thickness to establish whether thicker means stiffer, faster etc.

Spot the difference!! There are some 🙂

An unexpectedly captivating day!!