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Hamble Winter Series - Race Report Week 8
HWS - Race Week 8 The Forecast, for the last Sunday of the 2025 Hamble Winter Series, turned out to be spot on. A wonderfully sunny day, but with a chilly, 9-11 knots, westerly. Vice Commodore, James Lutley, provided the CV, Pufferfish and the Race Team headed out and set up SE of mark (4S) Royal Southern. Kathryn Clark was once again in charge. The courses would be round-the-cans
Published 15:27 on 12 Dec 2025
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Hamble Winter Series - Race Report Week 7
HWS Race Week 7 CRO Kathryn Clark, took the CV Baldur towards Hamble Yacht Services (4V), on Sunday morning, for the seventh day of the 2025 Hamble Winter Series. In the end, with a good deal of west in the wind, Kathryn chose to start near Darling Buoy (4R), just off the Hill Head shore. This westerly breeze gave the race team a chance to make use of mark TeamO (3S),
Published 15:44 on 27 Nov 2025
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Hamble Winter Series - Race Report Week 6
HWS Race Week 6 Sponsored by The Bugle, Hamble Recently qualified National Race Officer, Kathryn Clark, was the CRO for Sunday's racing. She took the CV Baldur out towards East Knoll (4H)." The wind" said Kathryn, "behaved almost exactly as forecast mostly 12-15kn from 035." The plan for this Sunday, sponsored by The Bugle, Hamble, was to give IRC 1, 13 miles; IRC 2, 12 miles and IRC 3
Published 12:58 on 21 Nov 2025
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Hamble Winter Series - Race Report Week 5
Hamble Winter Series Race Week 5 Sponsored by Pharmacy Consulting Ltd The CV, Sea Angel, set up at 4J, hamblewinterseries.com, for Race Week 5 of the Hamble Winter Series, which was sponsored by Pharmacy Consulting Ltd.The plan, according to PRO Peter Bateson, was "for a challenging variety of legs up, down and across the wind and across the tide, ending after 2-2½ hours back at hamblewinterseries.com." Wellies had been compulsory on the
Published 15:49 on 12 Nov 2025
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2025 Hamble Winter Series - Race Report Week 4
Hamble Winter Series Race week 4 With the clocks going back at 02.00 am last Sunday, Race Week 4 is the last two race day in the 2025 Hamble Winter Series. The One Designs have packed up for the winter, leaving just the IRC classes to head out into the Solent. To make sure no one headed out too early, the event WhatsApp carried a "clock back" warning for the fleet
Published 14:20 on 31 Oct 2025
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2025 Hamble Winter Series - Week 3 Race Report
Hamble Winter Series 2025 Race Week 3 Sponsored by One Sails UK Saturday saw the start of the second weekend of the Hamble One Design Championship. CRO Matt Stein took the CV Artimis near to 4R, Darling Buoy. He was ably assisted by Kathryn Clark as ARO with PRO Peter Bateson lurking onboard doing menial tasks. In addition, HRSC Rear Commodore Sailing, Mark Benton, skippered the boat, under the watchful
Published 13:52 on 24 Oct 2025
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2025 Hamble Winter Series - Week 2 Race Report
Hamble Winter Series. Race Week 2 Sponsored by Force 4 Chandlery For the second week running, wind was the major discussion point as the weekend approached. This time, however, it was an apparent lack of puff, particularly on the Saturday. Not one to be put off by less than favourable forecasts, Peter Bateson, PRO, messaged the fleet by WhatsApp on Friday, to give them his thoughts. His message finished with "We
Published 13:07 on 17 Oct 2025
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2025 Hamble Winter Series - Week 1
Hamble Winter Series 2025 Race Week 1 Sponsored by Key Yachting In the build up the 44 th Hamble Winter Series, all eyes were focused on the Grib files to see how Storm Amy would affect the proceedings. Try as they might, the Race Team could not find a forecast that would allow racing on Saturday 4 th October. This made the decision easy for Matt Stein, the CRO
Published 11:49 on 9 Oct 2025
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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
