Harry Heijst
20th of July. The first day after Berthon, on the Medina and the Solent.
Today we continued our preparation of Winsome. It was our intention to do some sailing in order to check our new sails G1 and G2 in our new Tuff-Luff 2206-59. For whatever reasons we did not sail out in the morning, when there was a suitable wind for this exercise, but only in the afternoon […]
Post by Harry Heijst | July 21, 2023 | 1 Comment | Comments RSS
Start of our final preparations at Berthon’s 19th of July i.e. 3,5 days to go to the start of RFR 2023.
Our flight to Bournemouth [EGHH] went well. We left Amsterdam at 05:00 UTC and arrived at Bournemouth at 09:30 UTC. Taxi to Berthon’s Lymington. We used the entire day to prepare Winsome. Berthon delivered us the boat with a new prop, installed a new Tuff-luff, filled our tank with nice drinking water from Lymington etc. […]
Post by Harry Heijst | July 20, 2023 | Comments Off on Start of our final preparations at Berthon’s 19th of July i.e. 3,5 days to go to the start of RFR 2023. | Comments RSS
RORC Myth of Malham Race, start 27th of May 2023 to Eddystone Light House and back or 235 Nm.
Crew Leen, Dirk-Jan, Jan and Pieter van Balkom, Robin, Peter Morton, Lex and myself. IRC Classes 3-4 starting together at 07:00 UTC. There was not much wind so we could start on a Spinnaker 1. Getting closer to Hurst Spit, we were in a good position of 1st–3rd place in Classes IRC 3-4 but “the […]
Post by Harry Heijst | June 8, 2023 | 1 Comment | Comments RSS
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