You can have the best design in the world, but.........
I was sailing at Emsworth Slipper Lake last night and had a big lesson in poor rig set up. It was a curious evening with our launch area...
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Nigel Barrow
Aug 103 min read
How design faults can creep up on you
First of all thank you to all those who bought me a coffee. Your contributions make a big difference to the longevity of the web. It is...
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Nigel Barrow
Aug 42 min read
Training
A brilliant 6 hours training at Datchet, first match racing with Craig Richards for a couple of hours and then another 4 hours of 3 boat...
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Nigel Barrow
Jul 252 min read
Preparing for Australia
One of the joys of sailing radio yachts is there is always something to do. This week I looked at buying a sail bag so I could safely...
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Nigel Barrow
Jul 242 min read
The Alioth story continued
There was one annoying feature of my Alioth setup in that the fin was raked back noticably compared to other boats so I could achieve...
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Nigel Barrow
Jul 223 min read
DF 95 club racing and setting the boat up
As the nationals were cancelled last weekend, I found some competitive club racing to get involved with. See video below. One of the...
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Nigel Barrow
Jul 165 min read
Peter Stollery's IOM Magic box
Peter very kindly sent me the details of his magic box for transporting my IOM and rigs on a plane to Australia. The box is easy to...
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Nigel Barrow
Jul 155 min read
The Fleetwood IOM ranking weekend
I want to say a huge thank you to the Fleetwood team led by Bob Jolly and Derek Priestley. They know how to put on a great show and...
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Nigel Barrow
Jul 91 min read
We lost a good friend today
I received the news from the Commodore of Frensham Pond Sailing Club that one of our own regular radio sailing friends was taken from us...
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Nigel Barrow
Jul 82 min read
Tactical Options
I had a great day down at Gosport today. The wind was shifty and the course a bit one sided but it was a great test of how to avoid...
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Nigel Barrow
Jul 74 min read
How do you achieve High Mode or VMG mode
First of all thank you to those who bought me a coffee in the last month. We are still some way off covering the next three years web...
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Nigel Barrow
Jun 302 min read
More on the prebend and Rig Box
I had a couple of questions on my last post which I thought best to answer with another post Lets start with the Corex rig box. There is...
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Nigel Barrow
Jun 292 min read
The transition is complete
I have settled on the Alioth IOM, F6 Marblehead and two DF boats. Everything else is sold so there is no going back for better or worse....
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Nigel Barrow
Jun 262 min read
My Alioth set up
As some have commented, I seem to have done a lot of fiddling and moved away from Juan's published set up notes, however as I said, my...
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Nigel Barrow
Jun 241 min read
A brilliant DF TT weekend at Eastbourne
Whatever you think about the DF design, it provides serious one design racing as was proved at Eastbourne las weekend. We were led by the...
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Nigel Barrow
Jun 132 min read
Back to the racing
With the two new boats commissioning done, it is time for practice and working both boats up. There is a Marblehead Games event this...
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Nigel Barrow
Jun 117 min read
Would you like to be a race officer
Last weekend, I was the race officer for the first time at Datchet for the 10 Rater National Championships. In my favour, there were...
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Nigel Barrow
Jun 104 min read
Looking for inspiration
It s been a bit of a mediocre year for me. Yes I have done well in the DF65 and 95 events, one design at its best, but have struggled...
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Nigel Barrow
May 241 min read
It seems a long time ago in a galaxy far away
There was a time when I raced a boat which was fast, held a good lane of a start line and delivered results. Since November when I first...
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