The forecast for today was light winds in the morning and stronger in the afternoon. As it turned out, it was light in the morning bu in the afternoon, after it picked up it decided to shift, bend, die, gust and everything else it didn’t do all year. But let’s start from the beginning. On…

For the past couple of weeks, we have been having light winds. It is a bit annoying, because we need a bit more. Especially in a place like the Welsh Harp where it surrounded by trees, buildings and a wall. I arrived at the club nice and early, I started rigging and there was some…

Today was a fantastic day. Nice, sunny and warm. I am sure there are going to be some rainy and horrible days, but I think that the cold weather is over. Today I sailed in shorts and t-shirt and I even took off my buoyancy aid, because it was too hot. I had to use…

The Wednesday Evening Series started today with light to no wind. We have all been looking forward to it and we have been talking about it since the switch to BST from GMT. There were some road works near the club, so the rush hour traffic was horrendous. I managed to arrive though quite early….

Easter Sunday today and I was sailing. Low turnout, since people are away for the Easter long weekend. Pete, Brent and James are in Scotland, preparing a keelboat for the Scottish Series so that’s even less Lasers than usual. For the first race it was only 4 of us. Light winds made things quite boring…