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Having sailed on a J-Class already this season (p28), says he, making the sign of grabbing something in the air and pulling it down next to his waist; “Yes!”... having sailed a J, I might wonder: What next? We’ve had a loose arrangement to sail to Seaview, the pretty seaside village on the NE coast of the Isle of Wight, for a number of years, in late May. And only a few times have we made it by boat. So I was looking forward to that. Sailing Nereis so far this year has provided the happy knowledge that while she does not leak much in har- bour, she still likes to make a bit of her own water at sea... and that seems to be mainly on the starboard tack. So it was
“Saturday blew old boots”
that a couple of days before we would be due to depart, with a proposed 40nM passage, I was involved fi tting a new bilge pump and thinking I had not done quite enough varnishing yet. Around me at Shoreham boats were getting ready for the Royal Escape Race, the annual dash to Fécamp the following day, and bags of victuals were disappearing into cockpits along with seabags, boots and gear. But the forecast for 24 hours later than that was not looking so good with WSW winds of 30 knots plus expected. And so, dear reader, while the fl eet off Brighton looked great for its cross-Channel offshore race on Friday, Saturday it blew old boots and kept small cruisers in port. Some sailors had to make other arrangements (drive there). Even lunch on Sunday was spent looking at white horses, with wet friends who’d bounced over by RIB from Portsmouth. But, as is so often the case, the weath- er blew through to an idyllic bank holiday Mon- day, which we witnessed, fi dgeting. Did I say I’d had some good sailing already this year?
Above: the wave you want, and top the one you don’t. A Contessa off Brighton
CLASSIC BOAT JULY 2011 7
RNLI, MAY 2011
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