Kabestan Sailing Club

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Hurray! So, we are back! Two days sailing, 50 miles, insane English weather which went completely crazy and gave us SUN for the entire weekend, Easterly wind, 3 races, hours of chart and sail work, eight teams wanting to win, eight skippers taking on the hard waters of Solent and 3 boats refusing to give in and sharing the first place. Flying spinnakers, broken radios, well tuned rigging and sails, burst water tanks and flooded boats, difficult moorings, racing lunches, ferries and oil tankers, shallows and banks, great tidal currents, incredible professionalism of skippers and hard work of the crews. Plenty of partying, great food, broken fridges, lots of beer and proper radio skills as well as 3-point fixes. Boats aground! Lots of photos of happy people, with plenty of stories to tell. Put all of the above together, and you get the one and only Kabestan 2008, Solent.

We had fantastic time, and I am very proud of the skippers and crews that have shown great skill in navigation, racing, boat tuning, tactics, boat management and dealing with emergencies, of which there are always plenty. You guys should be proud of yourselves, thanks for making this a really great regatta!

Congratulations to Messrs. Alexander Vinokurov, Alexander Chagoubatov and Vladislav Goryachev for fighting to the end and refusing to give up that first place. Each boat won, came second and came third in 3 races, so they rightfully shared the first place. Full results are published here: http://www.kabestan.co.uk/regatta/winners/. Full report to come soon!

It is, of course, a great shame many people could not come, I am sure we will see you next time. There are some initial photos in the usual place, we also have about 3 hours of video footage, so we’ll see what comes out of that. If I can please ask you to send me the links to your photos, so that I can put them up on the Kabestan site for all to see. As usual, all the copyrights will be strictly observed!

In other news, we have finally sorted out the social programme for the rest of the year, so it would be fantastic if you can all join in:

1) 2nd of October, post-regatta drinks, at the Pacific Oriental Bar, 52 Threadneedle Street, London, EC2R 8AY. 18:00 onwards
2) Kabestan Y.C. End of Season dinner/Christmas dinner! 29th of November, The George, Strand. All of the information and how to sign up is here (in Russian and in English). Definitely come along, we really have a lot to celebrate this year! Party Party Party!

We are still carrying on with the weekend sailing programme, as always, I will send announcements on Thursdays regarding the weekend sailing, if the weather is good. And we will try to sort out another smaller group sail sometime in Autumn. Watch this space.

All the best, ladies and gents, see you at the drinks and at the end of season dinner!

Yuri Fadeev
Kabestan Y.C.