Brewin Dolphin Scottish Series


Fireworks over Tarbert Harbour, 2010 Photo: Marc Turner


In praise of Broader Sailing


Richard Bundy celebrates fi ne tuning in the Brewin Dolphin Scottish Series


A


s I was sailing Merlin, the now world-famous quarter tonner, upwind on the mainland shore during last year’s Cowes Week, and about an


RS Elites enjoying ideal winds Photo: Marc Turner


hour into the leg we slowly passed the buoy we would be aiming for on the same beat in the leg after next, I wondered, as so many rather ordinary club sailors wonder: “Where did this interminable windward/ leeward sailing come from?” When I was a lad, we used to sail lovely courses with fetches and reaches included. We still didn’t win, but there were times when we couldn’t be absolutely certain that we weren’t doing reasonably well, which was jolly nearly winning, and we had some comfortable sailing when we felt as if we were going really fast. And there are as many skills involved sailing with the wind on the beam as on the nose, so why does modern racing not include all points of sailing, instead of making us spend all afternoon beating into freezing winds? That was a rhetorical question, incidentally, but there


is a ray of hope. The Brewin Dolphin Scottish Series, taking place on Loch Fyne from 27th


to 30th 74 cywinter 2011 May this


year is ‘providing new courses for all fl eets,’ according to their press release, ‘providing variety to the standard


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