Lewmar boat picks up 3rd in class at chocolate cuckoo clock race

The Lewmar boat that Allan has been sailing on was over in Geneva recently for the Bol d'Or, a race around Lac Leman. Called the OUT95, this jumped-up International Moth has been weirding out sailors on the Solent since last Summer, and the crew - of whom Robbie and Allan are occasional members - have figured out how to get the boat to sail - not an easy task bearing in mind it's as thin as a thin thing and has a pretty chunky rig.

Yummy 6 Metre goodness

A pretty good turnout for the Royal Southern YC's 6 Metre regatta - and plenty of shiny boats to look at while I waited for everyone to turn up on Sunday.


That's a helluva lot of teak, let alone the rest of it.



Cream got second...

 

very fast man on Holmbury and Pitch

It's not very often that someone captures excalty how fast and smooth good hardtail riding can be.
This bloke is both very, very smooth and very, very fast. Video is of stuff on Holmbury, with a little Pitch thrown in too. Impresssive.

More RTR pics

Two J80s at 4.30am




Jolly big cruise liner piling into Southampton Water at about 20kts. Not something to get in the way of.



Running somewhere in the Solent on the way back. Absolutely boiling.


Drifting somewhere.
 

Boring sunset shot

It's been a while since I emptied my cameraphone into Blogger, so apologies.

Journos

For some reason, 4am starts are now becoming fixtures. This was for a press conference in the Netherlands. Straight after, we all decamped to a beach near Schiphol on a boiling hot day.




Photographer being photographed back.



Warmer and sunnier than it looks here.



Stuart Miles of The Times and PocketLint and Scott Beecheno from CTO go up against Linksys' finest. 

Romanian for 'likes silly hats'

Come back soon, we all miss ya. And James is spending waaay too much time with Phil the Horse and Roly, doing naughty things to nice bicycles...

 

Forty minutes before

...it had been hailing stones the size of ball bearings. The climb from Neil's Farm towards Dorking - the spire's in the centre distance. Freezing cyclists not pictured.





 

Yes, that's real horseshit

just 'round the corner from my office, by Masala Zone. Quite dry stuff, so I'm guessing it came from a garden centre, rather than directly from the horse's arse...

Cheese free fondue

Cheese not pictured. Grimace not model's own. James and Raluca brought back lots of meat and cheese from their trip to the 24 hour race in Italy the other day. 

Things really are this blurry at 4am

Not terribly well focussed while putting the 707 in for the Round the Island Race the other day. tooo early.