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Hamble Winter Series week 8 - Race Report
Hamble Winter Series Race Week 8 and Final At last, some normal winter series weather came to the Solent, for the final Race Week of the 2024 Hamble Winter Series, sponsored by Greene King. "Miserable weather to finish" was view of Lis Robinson on Hot Rats. Provisioning on the First 35 was fortunately up to its usual standard with coffee and Millionaire's Shortcake on the way out. Other shortcake brands are available. There
Published 11:19 on 5 Dec 2024
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Hamble Winter Series - Week 6 - Race Report - Sponsored by Key Yachting
Hamble Winter Series - Week 6 - Race Report - Sponsored by Key Yachting Robert Hillman's Exuberant was the Committee Vessel for Race Week 6 of the Hamble Winter Series, sponsored by Key Yachting. Indeed, exuberant was how everyone was feeling, with the prospect of two races for the second week running. You could feel the energy as the Race Team and competitors headed for 4S, Royal Southern buoy.
Published 11:42 on 22 Nov 2024
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Hamble Winter Series week 5 - Race Report
Hamble Winter Series Race Week 5 - Sponsored by Force 4 "Dunkelflaute. The German word for the miserable, grey non-weather that's been draining the life out of everyone in Britain." wrote Quentin Letts in the Mail on Sunday, on 10 th November 2024. Well, it has certainly been draining the strength out of the Hamble Winter Series so far this year. Two Race days have been lost to this
Published 14:19 on 13 Nov 2024
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Hamble Winter Series Race Week 3 Sponsored by Force 4
Hamble Winter Series Race Week 3 Sponsored by Force 4 "This is Hamble Race Control, the race is not live, we have exceeded the wind limit!" Well, that's what the PRO would have said if the CV, WetWheels, had gone out on Sunday morning for the 3 rd week of the Hamble Winter Series. Fortunately, for the RO's, Peer Bateson and Ian Bullock, the approach of Storm
Published 10:47 on 30 Oct 2024
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Hamble Winter Series Week 2, IRC Autumn Champs, Race Report
Hamble winter Series Race Week 2 sponsored by Key Yachting Race Week 2 of the Hamble Winter Series comprises two days of racing for the Hamble IRC Autumn Championship, sponsored by Key Yachting. Early weather forecasts showed that once again we may have weekend of two halves. As it turned out it was a weekend of one half. Sunday's weather had looked light from a couple of days out
Published 10:25 on 18 Oct 2024
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Hamble Winter Series Week 1 & Hamble One Design Championship Weekend 1
Hamble Winter Series 2024 Race Week 1- Sponsored by One Sails. The 43 rd running on the Hamble Winter Series started with two completely contrasting days of weather. Saturday, day one of the Hamble One Design Championships, had glorious sunshine and a steady breeze but, when Peter Bateson, PRO, announced "We have passed the wind test" on Sunday morning everything was grey and dank. So grey was it on
Published 12:32 on 10 Oct 2024
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Hamble Winter Series 2024 Entries are open!
Hamble Winter Series 2024 Entries are open! Entries are now open for the 43 rd Hamble Winter Series. The event will take place in the central Solent starting on Sunday 6 th of October and finishing on Sunday the 1 st of December. As always there will be a lay weekend halfway through the series on the 3 rd of November. Racing in the main series is
Published 12:01 on 2 Sep 2024
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Hamble Witner Series - Race Report week 8
Hamble Winter Series Race Week 8 Mike Yates, JAGO, declared Sunday's race "A great end to the series, apart from the cold and rain!" Cold and wet it certainly was. Turkey, cranberry and stuffing sausage rolls were added to the normal coffee and Calvados on Hot Rats, Robbie and Lis Robinson, to keep spirits up as they headed to the start area. With Alacrity, Chris and Vanessa Choules, used Father Christmas
Published 12:19 on 7 Dec 2023
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Hamble Winter Series Week 7 - Race Report
Hamble Winter Series Race Week 7 PRO Peter Bateson described the conditions on week seven of the Hamble Winter Series as "cool but not cold." He must have been hiding inside on Wetwheels Hamble, as Ian Handley on Banter was experiencing a Sunday that was "By far the coldest, a true Hamble Winter series experience." One thing is for sure it was a bit grey and miserable in the drizzle.
Published 15:58 on 30 Nov 2023
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Hamble Winter Series - Week 5
Hamble Winter Series Race Week 5 Refreshed from the lay weekend of 5 th November, both competitors, and the Race Team, headed out into the Solent for the 5 th week of the 2023 Hamble winter Series. The CV Wetwheels Hamble set up in the vicinity of mark 48 Paul Heys. RO Kathryn Clark, working under the guidance of Peter Bateson, reported that "The wind is a
Published 14:52 on 16 Nov 2023
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Hamble Winter Series - Week 4
Hamble Winter Series 2023 Race Week 4 The main concern in the build up to Sunday's two races was that the weather was looking rather scary. Well, it was billed as the Halloween Race! "We'll all look pretty scary with 30 knots and wind against the tide!" said Lis Robinson the day before. The Race Team took an early decision to stand down the mark laying rib and just
Published 15:32 on 1 Nov 2023
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Hamble Winter Series - Week 3
Hamble Winter Series Race Week 3 "It was always going to be a difficult day!" This was the view of RO Kathy Smalley, who was standing in for PRO Peter Bateson this week when, the decision was taken for a one hour postponement for week 3 of the Hamble Winter Series. Despite the arrows on Windycator V2 coming from all directions in the Solent and showing between 0 and 3 knots, the
Published 13:25 on 26 Oct 2023
