2011 Round the Island Race

[David Hill]

Hi,
I'm stuck for berthing for RTI - anybody out there with some ideas?!
Cheers,
David

[Ru88ell]

Hi,
I'm stuck for berthing for RTI - anybody out there with some ideas?!
Cheers,
David

I'm planning to keep Zephyr at Bucklers Hard for June. I did also speak to East Cowes Marina and they said they can always fit small boats in 'on the day' so to speak.

[Ru88ell]

Mike Brookes has now entered, taking us up to 4!

[Ru88ell]

For those armchair racers out there you can follow the progress of the Round the Island Race at http://ngtrack2.ngresults.co.uk/raceplayer/

I've already enabled my iPhone to show Zephyr's position during the race.

[David Hudson]

Always best to let your results do the talking.

Good luck to you all.

David

[David Hudson]

Well results don't lie! Quality not quantity

Sail .Name ..........Time ......... Us v Them

87 ....SEA BADGER II .......10:59:46 ........................CC



159 JABIRU ......................11:30:33 .......................Shrimper


Congratulations to all Cape Cutters who entered!

[Dennis]

It must have been a race of attrition.

7 Shrimpers entered, only 2 finished.
20 entries in "Gaffers Division 3" (the class that includes CC19s), 8 finished.

4 CC19s entered, 2 finished (Class win by Mike Brookes, again!), I make that better than average this year.

Very well done to all concerned.

Dennis

CC19 #100 Mary Ann

PS. I look forward to some first hand accounts from some of "our" competitors.

[Ru88ell]

Bloody Hell!!

We retired in Yarmouth having experienced 25 to 32kts on the nose for four hours - during which time we did battle with the other yachts, one of which landed on top of us! That was enough for me me, and we turned back to Yarmouth. Zephyr has gelcoat from the underside of some 40 footer along the port rubbing strip!

A good deal of damage occurred to the fleets before the start. The holding areas were witness to carnage - boats dis masted and even capsized! We sailed out of the river with 8 mins to go, found the line, sheeted in and set off.

I have to take my hat off to anyone who braved it beyond The Needles, let alone in a 19' gaffer. I spoke to the 'Escape' team today at Bucklers Hard, and they had a crew of four. They said they wouldn't have made it without the extra weight. I'm not sure how many Mike had, and didn't see him to speak to. We saw Moonstruck arrive in Cowes on Friday, but failed to locate them in the beer tent. We didn't see them on race day at all.

Tom and I sat it out in Yarmouth for a couple of hours listening in to Ch16. It was obvious from that point that we'd made the right decision. I lost count of the number of Mayday and PanPan calls we heard in that time. There were MOB all over, broken rudders, broken masts, sinking boats, inversions, etc, - the Coastguard and RNLI did a fabulous job.

The atmosphere in Cowes was excellent - but it would have been much better to have had some more CC19 entries and therefore people to talk to. I've heard it won't be as windy next year, so how about it?

[Shrimper19]

Well results don't lie! Quality not quantity

Sail .Name ..........Time ......... Us v Them

87 ....SEA BADGER II .......10:59:46 ........................CC



159 JABIRU ......................11:30:33 .......................Shrimper


Congratulations to all Cape Cutters who entered!

Oh, so I am one of "them" now !

Congratulations to all who completed the course and indeed those who were brave enough to cross the start line.

I retired after nearly 5 hours of beating and am glad I did so.

Well done Mike, brilliant result.

Steve Mitchell
Cornish Shrimper No 19 (31 years old this year, the boat that is)

[David Hudson]

Hi Steve

I'm sailing from the Ullswater Yacht Club and we're getting ready for the Birkett Cup next weekend. That's my excuse for not doing the Round the Island. Plenty of adrenaline flowing!


The Club now has four Shrimpers and three Cape Cutters and we haven't had boathooks at dawn yet. The Shrimpers are both inboard and outboard and Roger Tushingham has carbon fibre spars, which I hope to emulate in the near future.

I've got a gennaker too: ya boo sucks!

Best wishes to all and the Shrimpers too