Archives: August, 2011
Winsome Rolex Fastnet Race 2011 – day4
August 18, 2011Am unable to write too much today since we are trying to keep Pinta-M, Iromiguy and Elmarlien from our IRC-rated-back. It is a big fight with them though only virtually since Pinta-M is about 18Nm behind us, Iromiguy 53 and Elmarlien 74. We cannot even see them on AIS for reasons I explained earlier in […]
winsome news | by Harry Heijst | August 18, 2011 | 2 Comments | Comments RSS
Winsome Rolex Fastnet Race 2011 – day3
August 17, 2011After rounding the Fastnet Rock, the weather got much lighter. It did not mean we could take a rest since we had to keep our competitors from our tail. When we rounding the Fastnet Rock, we first set spinaker I, trimmed the sails, cleaned up the boat etc. Only thereafter we uncorked our bottle of […]
winsome news | by Harry Heijst | August 17, 2011 | 4 Comments | Comments RSS
Poseidon did awake 15th of August
August 16, 2011Listening to the radio and looking at the Rolex Fastnet Race site, it looks like Poseidon made a mess of it. The problem with Rambler showed what can happen on real BIG BOATS with a very experienced and highly qualified crew once a God has got annoyed. We were happy to learn that all 21 […]
winsome news | by Harry Heijst | August 16, 2011 | 2 Comments | Comments RSS