The beginning of November saw us return to the Solent again for an informal weekends sailing with London Corinthian Sailing Clubs offshore group.
The Not Race and Hot Toddy evening have become a traditional end of season outing. Its a simple format, we get together at Hamble Point on a Friday night in November to eat and drink. Saturday morning we have the Not Race before sailing somewhere for dinner and to compare Hot Toddy recipes. Sunday is recovery time before we sail home.
Read MoreThe 2nd weekend in September saw us back on the water after the August break.
August for some people might be Cowes week and the peak of the sailing season but for us its always been school holidays and time out with the family. This year we took advantage of the downtime to take Jengu out of the water and resolve some of the remaining items on the issues list. As with most task lists its very much two steps forwards one backwards, but at least we now have new items at the top of the list.
Read MoreLast weekend was our first serious race outing for Jengu. We’ve had a couple of other trips including circuits of the Solent, racing to the Nab Tower and St Vaast, but this was our first serious test of the systems that we have installed and configured over the last 6 months.
Read MoreWhen I first saw Jengu it was November it was a foul day at Hamble Point and the wind was strong enough to be moving the boat around even though it was on dry land. I didn’t pay much attention to the fact that the instruments said it was blowing 100knots. It seemed plausible.
Read MoreWe have a full set of North J109 Class sails to play with No1, No2 and No3 in 3DL, plus a couple of spares. 3 Asymmetric Spinnakers, storm jib, tri-sail and 3DL Main sail. All of which have gone to North Sails in Gosport for their annual TLC season…. all quite a car boot full.
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