Month: May 2021

 

Having been vocal in our support for decision to move the finish of the Fastnet Race to Cherbourg and with few other options for a summer holiday because of Covid restrictions, we will be heading out to the Fastnet Rock again this August.

We will be joined by long standing crew members Tori Davies and Robert Stevenson.  With a crew of only 4, and Natalie tied up with exams, Tom and Tori will be securing the qualifying miles (half the crew must do 300 miles in qualifying races in the 12 months before the event), racing double handed in the Myth of Malham Race round the Eddystone Rock and Morgan Cup racing to Dartmouth.

Mostly Harmless’s 2021 season got off to a slow start as a consequence of Natalie needing to focus on studies for her physiotherapy MSc and Tom coming off his bike at the end of February, sustaining injuries to his right shoulder and left elbow.  Rather than risk Tom’s recovery, Mostly Harmless scratched from the JOG race on Good Friday because of a breezy forecast and retired a few legs from the finish on Easter Sunday.

Ben Rogers joined Tom for JOG’s Salcombe Gin Sopranino Race on 1st May, a light airs event out to West Princessa buoy, securing third overall in the double handed class and fifth in Class 2.

Jonathan Clark joined Tom in mid May for the first day of the JOG Home Ports Regatta.  After making a great start in 12 knots of wind and leading the race on handicap at times during the first half hour, the crew the lost the will to live when the wind died to nothing off Ryde and, with the forecast suggesting that the wind would remain very light for a few hours longer, decided to drop the sails, turn on the engine and head home.