It got off to a good start when Geert, Joanna and David arrived on the Sunday. They had been travelling for many many hours, were thirsty and David mentioned he liked Bass. No doubt he actually meant an occasional gentle drink of Bass, but his mistake was saying it in Wales and saying it to Porky; either one of these two circumstances might have saved them, but together they were fatal and the activities for the rest of the day were in no doubt.

The rowing club happened to have a new barrel of Bass on and happened to be open for lunch, so we all strolled down for some ale. Six hours later (lunch opening hours kinda stretched a little) and many pints/songs later our dazed guests staggered home via The Salt for a meal curtesy of Porky (thanks). By this time they were all wondering where on earth they had landed and whether or not the Welsh are actually sane - and the rest is history. Geert moved to Strongbow as his favoured tipple during the course of the event (the sailing event as a whole that is), David stuck to Bass and Jo went all girly on us and drank water...

I'd like to also commend Mumbles on their race organisation and rescue. When I went in, it was a quick one and I ended up about 20m from the boat, I think I also bounced off the daggerboard and ruddder on the way out the back of the bus (I still have the bruises to show for it) and Colin (sailwave) was with me within about 60 seconds.

Race organisation was very slick and the next race sequence was started very quickly after the last finisher.

Top Job all round.

Indeed, congratulations John !

It is good to see that the fleet is catching up with John's level of sailing skills. Slowly but surely we are all getting there ! Again a real pitty about Sproat.

Wouter

Everyone at Mumbles was GREAT!!!
Colin, Porky, Alyson, and the gang did make us feel right at home as soon as we arrived. (I did have 1/2 of a 1/2 pint of Bass-but the Mumbles water is some of the best I ever had!!)
Race committee did an excellent job all the way around.
And thank you Geert for chauffeuring and taking a chance on me as crew! The racing was great and I felt privileged to be with some of the best sailors in the world.

PS-I have come home 30C and rain

Congratulations! Well done.

The report MarkP did and the photos "Sailwave" submitted to Y&Y have been accepted and published on their website. Just hope their work also makes it into the magazine. Excellent work Mark and Simon (are there anybody else who deserves credit for the report?).

Ref: http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/?article=142961

This is great PR for the class, more like this

The other Simon

Any video is better than no video. There must have been at least three video cams there?

started to upload a few snippets to Youtube

Out to the start