Winsome News
Good news on RORC Cowes-Cherbourg race 2022.
September 6, 2022
Crew Leen, Dirk-Jan, François, Alexander, Jan-Maarten, Michel Huyghe, Pieter K and myself. After a reasonable start, we lost distance on Sun Fast 3200 Cora, which was sailed double handed and gained with every puf of wind on us. It was difficult to find the best route to Cherbourg and to be honest I never could […]
Post by Harry Heijst | September 6, 2022 | 1 Comment | Comments RSS
Cowes Week 2022, Round up
August 7, 2022
What a great week! This is the summary of Cowes Week 2022. WINSOME was built in 1972 and therefore she is 50 years young this year. WINSOME is looked after very well and this results in that we can still sail her during competitive racing. Two competitors we want to congratulate on behalf of the […]
Post by Boj | August 7, 2022 | Comments Off on Cowes Week 2022, Round up | Comments RSS
Cowes Week 2022, day 6
August 5, 2022
Today we won not only on the water (6th time), but also on rating (2nd time). It was a perfect race for us, no mistakes were made. Winsome crossed the Solent like a dolphin. Leen was the only one who observed that our course was shortened at the sailing mark The Boss. Without his observation we would have […]
Post by Harry Heijst | August 5, 2022 | 6 Comments | Comments RSS
Cowes Week 2022, Race 4
August 3, 2022
Ladies day! For many years now, Cowes Week is running a special ladies day event. An event to promote ladies beging more involved in our wonderful sport at alle levels. A few years ago, in 2017 we had won our rather large class that day and Laura had been wearing the silly and now discontinued […]
Post by Boj | August 3, 2022 | Comments Off on Cowes Week 2022, Race 4 | Comments RSS
Cowes Week 2022, Race 3
August 2, 2022
Your OBR (On Board Reporter) reporting for duty after day 3 of Cowes Week 2022. At 0730 our weatherman Boj sent out his predictions stating the following: “We are under the NE gradient generated by the High over the North Sea. The Cold front that passed the South coast of the UK yesterday should have […]
Post by Boj | August 2, 2022 | Comments Off on Cowes Week 2022, Race 3 | Comments RSS
Cowes Week 2022, Race 2
July 31, 2022
First of all, I would like to thank Sophie and Harry for all the great preparations and the hospitality this week. Today we had a lovely day of sailing on the Solent. The breeze was between 18-22kts with gust up to 25kts. We started of the committee boat line just on the north side of […]
Post by Boj | July 31, 2022 | 1 Comment | Comments RSS
Cowes Week 2022, Race 1
July 30, 2022
Today was the first day of Cowes Week 2022. Because of the Covid pandemic Winsome missed 2020 and 2021, so 3 years ago was our last Cowes Week.Expectations were high because Winsome did quite well this year up until now: 2nd at the RORC Easter Challenge, 1st in the Round the Island Race an again […]
Post by Boj | July 30, 2022 | Comments Off on Cowes Week 2022, Race 1 | Comments RSS
Getting closer to Cowes Week 2022
July 30, 2022
In 2020 and 2021 we were not able to sail our favourite race. During my three days absence, I returned with Leen to Cowes on Thursday. Exactly on that day Winsome was launched again from the Medina Yard. Gavin Tappenden did a good job and brought her hull again in order. On the day of […]
Post by Harry Heijst | July 30, 2022 | Comments Off on Getting closer to Cowes Week 2022 | Comments RSS
RORC Channel Race 2022
July 24, 2022
Blog by Harry This race was the very first RORC Race I ever sailed. It must have been in 1999 and it was a race from Cowes to Nab Tower and back again to Cowes, if I remember well. Theun Hoogmoed and Wouter van Everdingen were in board, but I need to check my logbooks […]
Post by Boj | July 24, 2022 | Comments Off on RORC Channel Race 2022 | Comments RSS
Squadron Members’ Regatta 8-10 July 2022
July 13, 2022
During the marriage of Joost and Christien we sailed the Squadron Members’ Regatta, of course in Cowes. Leen, D-J, Lennard, Geoff, François van Vliet and two new kids on the block: Lex van Dam friend of D-J and Louis van Roosendaal, son of Sophie. In the first two races we arrived much too late at […]
Post by Harry Heijst | July 13, 2022 | Comments Off on Squadron Members’ Regatta 8-10 July 2022 | Comments RSS