South Bank Sailing Club Blog

By Race Officer – James Munro-Faure My mummy woke me up from a deep sleep at home in my cot to say that as nobody had volunteered to be Race Officer, I had to do it.  Well I’m only just a bit over 1 year old, but I suppose I could give it a try. I don’t know all the names of people who sailed but my Daddy told me it was Ben and Imogen in something called an Albacore, Henry in his Laser, my father in law Jamie (I do like Daisy) on his Laser, Renato (he always wins races apparently) and Leo with Jane (I asked for help from Tom and Freya but they were too busy playing with Jane SH upstairs). I was bundled up into the big orange boat with Mummy Daddy and Sara and told to steer it and make sure to do it properly.  It was quite easy actually (see the video Sara took of me)and I even had time to take photos of the boats as well. There was lots of chat and boats changing places and apparently at the end Renato won.  Again.  When I’m big Renato I’m going to try and beat you!! Sara told me ...

Campbell trophy, race no.13, 21 April 2019 In the Race Box: Joseph Cabon & Meredith Gunderson In the Safety Boat: Trish Gutteridge & Josh Mareschal It was the sunniest & warmest of Easter weekends, long to be savoured in memory. Four boats of four classes took to the water: one each of Enterprise, Laser, Solo & Streaker. With the wind mainly from the east at 2-6 mph, sailors had to complete their rigging on the riverside. The course was three circuits of a four-buoy lap, with a ‘sausage’ in the middle. After a clean start all boats were bunched closely for the race to the first buoy, & from the race box, through the compressed perspective of binoculars, it looked for a while that they had all stalled in the light wind.   But there was movement, & Sara rounded the first mark after a little over six minutes, closely followed by Allan & Steph, Chris, Elaine.   By the end of the first lap Allan & Steph had moved into the lead with Elaine, Chris ...