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Commodore’s letter
in the gusty downwind conditions in our first windy race. The next day 60 boats set off from La Trinité for the
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350-mile race to Cowes. This was the first leg of the IRC two- handed European championship which was convincingly won by previous Fastnet winner Didier Gidoux’s new NM35 Lann Ael 3 – a collaborative Manuard/Nivelt design with more than a passing resemblance to a Class40. The fleet from France enjoyed a couple of nights in Cowes
and a prizegiving in our clubhouse, before joining 140 other entries on what looked likely to be a swift edition of our race to St Malo. The conditions did not disappoint with Christian Zugel’s Tschuss 2, now on a roll, taking line honours and the overall IRC win plus a new course record of just 10h 56m!
The late Robin Aisher steering Yeoman XXIII at the start of the 1981 Hobart race. Aisher was one of the last old-school Admiral’s Cup skippers, steering his own yachts, usually to leeward. But when the IOR balance tipped in 1984/85, with top one-design sailors driving lighter, fractional rigged designs, Aisher put up a spirited though ultimately unsuccessful effort with his own One Tonner Yeoman XXV
Lann Ael 3 won the doublehanded division giving Didier
Gidoux a convincing win in the Double Handed Europeans with two bullets. Can’t do better than that. Ino Noir had a great race and was going well and competing
with Teasing Machine and Rán on the water to Les Hanois until the wind lightened and they slipped away from us on the fetch to the finish. We now have a short break prior to the Rolex Fastnet allowing time for some maintenance and for some more training to make sure we have correctly identified sail choices across the various reaching angles in particular. The Fastnet will again finish in Cherbourg and we look for-
ward to welcoming crews and appreciating some wonderful French hospitality in the race village. Then following the prize- giving it will be straight back to Cowes for Cowes Week. I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible during the two weeks of racing and in particular I hope you will make the most of our Cowes clubhouse. Subsequently we are planning a renovation of this
clubhouse to upgrade to the standard expected of a royal yacht club; we will be presenting our plans at the upcoming EGM. With the plans for the Admiral’s Cup in 2025
coming together we certainly have a full pro- gramme ahead of us for the next few years…
James Neville Commodore
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t’s been a busy month on the Solent including a terrific Round the Island Race with 1,100 boats entered and white knuckle rides around the south of the island. The Volvo 70 Tschuss 2 led Maxi72 Notorious around in conditions that enabled her to stretch her legs as soon as sheets were cracked. On Ino Noir we also revelled
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