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funNstuff Wilsonians sailing club open day 2015 (with a great Fun N Stuff with the Foxwells ending)
It was saturday the 9th of May and Wilsonians sailing club held its annual open day. This year's event was as well organised as ever and saw loads of club members helping out. Ian volunteered and was tasked with taking visitors out in one of the clubs ding...
EP10 A look at our Red Fox, trailer sailor, sailing yacht
We bought our Red Fox, Rowena, in December and have slowly been renovating her and getting her back in ship shape order, ready for the water. This is just a glimpse of what we have been up to with more films to follow
EP09 Launching Pintail, a Victoria 34 at Medway Yacht Club
As you will know if you have been following our films we sold our SunFast 32i at the end of last season however Nanny and Grandad still have Pintail, their Victoria 34, and todays film shows her going back in the water ready for the 2015 sailing season. A...
EP08 Holiday 2014 pt3 in our Jeanneau Sunfast 32i
This is the last in our series of films covering our 2014 holiday up the east coast of England. We had some miserable weather but also, ironically, on the penultimate day we also had some lovely light winds, flat water messing around in boats kind of weat...
funNstuff 2015 Willies Warm Up Series Race 10. The final race with Ian out in his Blaze dinghy again
This was the last race in the warm up series and took place in the afternoon, close to high water. So although the weather hadn't improved since race 9 there was now at least plenty of water to set the course in. Music from http://www.purple-planet.com/
funNstuff 2015 Willies Warm Up Series Race 9. Ian was again out in his Blaze dinghy
It was an overcast and pretty miserable day that greeted the competitors for the last two races in the wilsonians warm up series but with again a puffy F3 wind it didnt stop people from competing. Izzy and I were assistant race officers so didn't get to d...
funNstuff Onboard footage with commentary from Ians Blaze dinghy race on Sunday 8th March 2015
So we dont pretend to be experts at tidal river sailing or for that matter Blaze sailing but for what its worth this is what Ian was doing during the first lap of Sundays race in his Blaze dinghy. It might be of interest to some or it might not, you can ...
funNstuff 2015 Wilsonians Warm Up Series Race 5 Ian was out in his Blaze Dinghy
With a good forecast and with what turned out to be great weather to go sailing in a few more members turned up for race 5 of the Wilsonian Dinghy club 2015 warm up series on the river Medway in Kent, England. So we had a puffy F3 breeze to play with, an ...
EP07 Holiday 2014 pt2 in our Jeanneau Sunfast 32i sailing yacht and near disaster at the Deben bar
This film starts with us leaving the river Deben however it didn't all go to plan. Pintail actually went aground and after getting herself off found she then had a horrible noise coming from the engine/propeller. Still we made it over the to river Orwell ...
funNstuff Onboard footage from Ians last race in his Blaze dinghy
As the name suggests. Here is more of the online footage from Ians last race in his Blaze dinghy at Wilsonians sailing club. Trust me, unless you have a real interest in the Blaze dinghy you will find this all rather dull. Music from http://www.purple-p...
funNstuff 2015 Wilsonians Warm Up Series Race 1 Ian was out in his Blaze Dinghy
I expect the forecast of F5-F8 and freezing rain !! had kept people away but a few hardy souls turned up for race 1 of the Wilsonian Dinghy club 2015 warm up series on the river Medway in Kent, England. It turned out to be a chilly F2-4 with some big gust...
EP06 Holiday 2014 pt1 in our Jeanneau Sunfast 32i sailing yacht
So this is part one of our summer cruise up the east coast of england. Starting from our home in the Medway we made our way up the coast to Shotley marina at the entrance to the River Orwell, and then from here headed over to the river Deban and the Tidemi...
EP05 Izzys first boat, a Jack Holt Designed BumbleBee dinghy
This short film shows izzys first sail now in her new boat. Its a Jack Holt designed Bumblebee dinghy, a nice simple dinghy with a slightly unusual rig. The first sail was just outside the Medway yacht club and then the next weekend we towed it down to Sta...
EP04 Joining the Medway cruise to Burnham in our Jeanneau Sunfast 32i White Magic
This was to be the first proper sail in our new boat and was a pretty uneventful weekend apart from at the beginning, where a problem with the starter relay prevented us from turning off the engine... just in case it wouldn't restart. But it was to be a g...