South Bank Sailing Club Blog

What a way to finish up this summer’s taster sails – we had 10 taster sailors and 8 have joined up!  A really brilliant result. Thanks to all the helms – Ben, Sina, David, Imogen and Daniel – and to James on his family rib.  Great stuff all! And a special thanks to Jane for doing a great pre-chat and for sorting all the paperwork and new memberships and keeping order all round!      

What a wonderful day to take to the water! The sunshine brought all sorts of sailors out of the woodwork which created an impressive fleet consisting of 3 enterprises: Steph and Allan, James and Charlotte and newbies Leo and Alan. Johnny and Andrew in Solos, Andy Goodwin in his Aero, Joseph in his Supernova and Amy, Rex, Armand and Anna in Club Lasers and finally Jamie in his shiny new Laser on its maiden voyage – some said he was going to be the new Renato…well actually just Jamie said that. A three buoy course to Starboard was set providing a nice jibe down towards Crabtree. The fleet bunched together and rounded the first mark but then started to spread out after the second. A long, hard slog  up the wall occurred with Rex keeping up with the top of the fleet but it was Jamie who rounded the buoy first, closely followed by Allan and Steph.  By the second lap Allan had re-claimed the lead and Johnny closely followed Jamie. It was now a slogging match for 1st place! The back of t...

After torrential rain for most of Saturday, Sunday’s weather looked much better and despite the holiday season being upon us, (and we know this because we are missing 5 little Koe’s…) 10 boats and accompanying sailors got t   hemselves ready for the Downriver Race scheduled to start at 12.45. Two participants were so keen to be there that they drove for 12 hours from the north of Scotland, slept 4 hours and arrived bright eyed and bushy tailed ready for the off!! The forecast was for 13 gusting 25 mph but there was little evidence of that on the water as the usual “shall I take a full or radial” angst went on around the yard.   Leo arrived and we decided that   this should be his Downriver debut so he rigged a laser and went for a radial.   Sal too, and Jane D went for a 4.7.   Amy and Jane SH opted for Bleu d’Ecosse the club Enterprise whilst Allan and Steph took Oscar the GP14.   Jakob, Jamie and Renato all went for full laser rigs and Johnny sailed...