Attendees Don and Joan Wilson (106)*, Otto Schrier (92), Will Clemens and Erika and their dog (74), Sean Svendsen (112), Roger Rapp (15), Dave Thompson and Evie Ashcroft (102), Laurie and Terri Chambers (123), Charlie Deist (77), Emma, Clare and Ben (77), Eric Kaiser (122), Bill and Isabelle DuMoulin (112), James Vernon, Ros Wyatt and his sister...

The Woodies Regatta is always one of the highlights of the racing season and this one did not disappoint.  It is hard to beat three days of racing on the city front in both flood and ebb, with even the sun making an appearance on Saturday, and social events back on at the club after a two year COVID absence.  We missed some regulars for whom...

The Fall Classic Regatta is often one of the highlights of the Folkboat racing season. This year was no exception.  The conditions were spectacular once the westerlies filled in around 1pm. The fleet racing was highly competitive with most teams finishing within a few boat lengths of one another.  A slight ebb was running, so the “bang right”...

Photo by Gerard Sheridan The Woodies Regatta has been held at St Francis Yacht Club for over 45 years, and this beautiful perpetual trophy awarded since 2000 when a young Peter Jeal won it.   Many of the boats may now be plastic but the classic lines of the IOD, Knarr and Folkboat fleets still make the event eye-candy for those on shore.  With...

We are back! And what a return to folkboat racing it was. Most of us had not raced in earnest with full crew since the Internationals in late September 2019.  Tom Reed (111) and Paul Dixon (105) had blown off the cobwebs with a warm-up the weekend before when some of us were still scrambling to get our boats out of yards.  Yet there was no way to prepare for what we faced, two long days in the circle with a choppy flood and 25 knots of wind with gusts in the early 30s.  It was brutal.  On both days a boat lost crew overboard.  Three days later I can barely sit down.