Back to Cowes, Mecca of sailing racing

28 June 20181 February 2020

I have been carrying out a consultancy mission to accompany a client in the acquisition of his future mount. Reflection on the expectations and the navigation program, establishment of a specification, choice of a sailboat size consistent with the goals sought, selection of the market models corresponding to the target. and “Pre-inspection” of used boats spotted for sale. So the day after the Morgan Cup I was in Cowes to visit an Elan 350 prepared for the race, and that its owner was able to enhance with a series of clever and very interesting little details.

None of my visits to this Mecca of the regatta leaves me indifferent, I have accumulated so many memories, since my first stop on the family boat (and my fall in the Medina while I wanted to do my smarts with the appendix) to the UK 2016 championship followed from the Commodore’s Cup with Andrew Hurst, the editor of Seahorse magazine to which I have been collaborating ever since, to my years on the malignant crazy one-toner Crazy Horse, my regattas at the helm of the paternal half-tonner, the Admiral’s Cup on Ossian and Proud Lady. The landing of the Red Funnel shuttle to the High Street is my personal little madeleine.

2nd in IRC2 at the Morgan Cup

From La Rochelle to the Canary Islands with a Lucia 40

Back to Cowes, Mecca of sailing racing

Faisons connaissance