Team Mac defends Women’s Match Racing World title

The Brits dominated again on Day 2, father and son, Andy and Tom Partington, sailing at sonic speed to take the win.

Lucy Macgregor chose the Swiss Alex Bezel for the semis, while Pauline Courtois’s team goes up against Trine Palludan from Denmark.

MHYC offers Youth programs, inclusive of some great school holiday sailing, along with sailing for adults, combined with social activities.

Tony Bull and the team are in Bodstedt, Germany, training, getting a routine going and acclimatising in the lead up to the Cadet Worlds.

When the ranking list was started in 2005, there were 287 sailors taking part in qualifying events, now there are 540 - a growth rate of nearly 90 per cent.

Runners on the first peak, a 26 mile run to the summit of Snowdon, suffered from sunburn and dehydration.

He was one of two associates at Peter Cole and Associates in the ‘seventies working on designs for Quarter, Half, Three quarter, One and Two ton level rating racing yachts under the International Offshore Rule.

Modifications included transforming part of the floats, and the structure accommodating the foil casings in particular, ready to host a new pair of foils.

The public appearance at SIBS will be the first since the Dusseldorf premier.