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Nigel Barrow
Oct 201 min read
A great days practice
Today was measuring day for me. The organisers made the process as smooth as possible. Weigh all the batteries Weigh the fin and bulb....
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Nigel Barrow
Oct 191 min read
The gremlins are gone for now
The new winch is reliable as is the 40mm drum. I so much prefer a regular drum over a spiral. You know exactly where you are with the...
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Nigel Barrow
Oct 181 min read
I am glad we have practice days
Yesterday sailing with A rig, my RMG J series winch started screaching at me and refused to sheet in so off with that one and in with a...
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Nigel Barrow
Oct 162 min read
The worlds organisation
So today I met Grant Cooper today who is the lead organiser of this championship. No small task. He drove me up to a botanical park where...
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Nigel Barrow
Oct 152 min read
Gladstone
On Sunday I had the pleasure to sail with the Gladstone radio sailing club. Such a friendly bunch and very good sailors. The venue is one...
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Nigel Barrow
Oct 126 min read
An interesting journey to Australia
The journey to the worlds begins. We left early for Heathrow to avoid the rush hour and met a little traffic on the M3. My bag and boat...
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Nigel Barrow
Oct 91 min read
The journey to Aus begins
22 hours in the air awaits with breaks at Dubai and Brisbane. Fingers crossed the boat box and bag get there. Departure at 9pm tonight...
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Nigel Barrow
Oct 64 min read
The run in to the worlds tuning the rig and other news
It’s been a while since I posted a blog. All is well, I just have not had the time to post anything or have anything meaningfull to say....
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Nigel Barrow
Aug 292 min read
Goals and plans for the Worlds
Readers of the web site will have worked out I am goal and process oriented. The easy bit is to sort out the process. The hard task is...
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Nigel Barrow
Aug 272 min read
Update on Worlds Training
It is funny how some days you can have pace to keep ahead and other days you are just off the pace . In light weather I definitely had...
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Nigel Barrow
Aug 142 min read
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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