Recent Results

The "Keronimo" Clean Up, J 80 Nationals and Largs regatta week, all won by Yachts powered with Ultimate Sails!.

The team on the Ker 40 "Keronimo" had a successful Dartmouth Week winning IRC 1 and IRC Overall. They reported a very well run event by all the race committee.

Andy and Dean Malcolm with Nemo win best performing yacht of Largs Regatta Week.

Largs Regatta Week had a great mix of racing with a mix of short inshore racing, and longer pursuit style racing. 

On Saturday they had four windward leeward races, succesfully taking four 1st's. Sunday took them round the island and again came in 1st.

During the week they had three races, gaining two 1sts and a DNC due to adverse weather.

Then to mix it up they competed two handed in the race round Holy Isle, finishing 2nd.

It was a great week - Nemo and the team did well.

UK J/80 National Championships 2016 - A win for J.A.T. powered by Ultimate Sails

Day one saw the 25-boat fleet head into Christchurch Bay for three testing races, which passed successfully as the wind ranged from 1-16kt knot and shifted around much of the compass. ‘Nimble but successful’ would best describe the race committee’s efforts to run fair courses as the playing field tipped back and forth. At the end of the day’s three races local boats were in the ascendant, Oly Dunford’s Purple Haze steered by Simon Shaw topping the table from Chris and Hannah Neve’s No Regrets and ‘young’ Ray Mitchell and a team of real youngsters on Checkmate.

Mitchell’s youthful team would go on to have an exceptional regatta, only interrupted when their boat was badly damaged by a port-tack rival in the strong breezes of day 2… God bless redress.

Day two brought the breeze and lots of it with four fast races in the Western Solent. By now the two favourites had found their feet, multiple J/80 champion Kevin Sproul’s team scoring 2,1,1,1 and regular J/80 performer John Powell on Betty ending the day with 1,2,3,2.

As well as Checkmate’s earlier crash, there was some off-piste action for Fiducial crew Al Newton – builder of Iain Percy’s gold medal winning Star boats – who achieved some nice air when flying overboard during a rather too speedy gybe. While ‘Flipper’s’ crewmates struggled to dowse the kite and turn around Chris Kirkman’s crew on Jane eventually picked up the (moderately) grateful casualty.

The final day was a race officer’s nightmare, but that evening Roger Wilson and his race team were still smiling having completed two good races, now back in Christchurch Bay, almost pulling off one more before the morning’s zephyrs faded completely. Wilson’s patience was rewarded two hours later when the sea breeze finally filled in, with a race win for No Regrets and (more) grey hair for Kevin Sproul, shut out at the start but fighting back to 8 th to take the overall win by 4pt from John Powell and Betty.

With Sproul taking his 6th national J/80 title and Powell a worthy runner-up, the family Neve – top local boat – slotted in to 3rd overall.