Archives: July, 2018

RORC Channel Race 2018 – “Stick to the plan”

July 29, 2018

After a few very warm days in Western Europe, Winsome’s crew met on Friday the 27th of July for the RORC Channel Race: Harry, Leen, Boj, Caroline, Dirk-Jan, Ed, Frits and Lennard. Boj and Lennard arrived late on Friday afternoon, while the others who arrived earlier had prepared Winsome in the afternoon. We had a […]

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How our series of victories came to a grinding halt in the RORC race to Dinard-St Malo

July 16, 2018

The RORC Cowes-Dinard Race started Friday morning. Crew Leen. Pieter K, Caroline, Florent, Luuk and the new kid on the block Frits van Verschuer, recommended by Jan de Jong. We expected not much wind in the first place. The start was postponed by one hour, which we did not know, so we made a start […]

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RtIR 2018; ‘Easy guys, One by One’

July 8, 2018

Although this quote was brought to us by a Port gybed fellow competitor looking at Starboard gybed WINSOME like a deer caught in headlights, it was very applicable for this race. We sailed RtIR 2018 with: Harry, Leen, Laura, Peter Morton, Nijhoff, Heikens, Lennard, Floris and myself. Sunday and Wednesday before the race I tried […]

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