Three Hamble based Impala’s rashly decided to compete in the annual JOG jaunt to Weymouth last weekend. The early weather forecasts were encouraging, 12 knots from the SE on sat to take us there, 12 knots from the SW to get us home. Lovely! With an 0730 start from Read more…
Entries for this year’s Round the Island race close at midnight on Saturday. Here’s Polly and Imptish neck-and-neck after 6 hours of racing last year. 6 Impalas (Trudi, Cheeky Monkey, Polly, Imptish, Scallywag and Burhou) are entered so far this year. Come and join in!
The David Thomas regatta at the RSrnYC has been rescheduled for the 23rd August. ‘The Royal Southern Y.C. is pleased to announce that they have set a new date for this regatta, which was cancelled in May due to adverse weather. The format will be NHC racing for the racers, Read more…
Five Impalas – Cheeky Monkey, Polly, Imptish, Magic and Two Frank – raced in the JOG Cowes-Yarmouth and Yarmouth-Cowes races at the weekend. Saturday’s race was postponed for a few hours, before the west-going tide produced just enough apparent wind for class 6 to drift over the line. Unfortunately the Read more…
A ferocious forecast put paid to any chance of racing in the David Thomas regatta at the weekend, but the 5 Impalas were well represented at the dinner at the Royal Southern YC, where Peter Poland gave a great talk on David Thomas’ life and designs. Crews from 3 of Read more…
Five Impalas – Cheeky Monkey, Magic, Two Frank, Imptish and Polly – are entered in the Royal Southern YC’s David Thomas regatta this weekend, among the 26-strong fleet of David Thomas-designed boats entered. It’s not too late to come and join in – and there’s a dinner in honour of Read more…
Saturday saw 3 Impalas out for the first JOG race of the year – Cowes to the Nab Tower and back. Two Frank’s Olly Love writes: ‘The race started very very badly for us on the motor over when we had the bacon sandwiches in the oven but forgot to Read more…
Photos: Thanks to Paul Wyeth/pwpictures.com In the words of Two Frank‘s Olly Love it was a “Six person day” in the Garmin Hamble Winter Series if you were sailing an Impala. Shifty necessitating frequent tacks, gusty with a couple of tight kite reaches even though the max windspeed was 16knots. Read more…
The weather gods didn’t cooperate this weekend – both days of the Doyle Sails Hamble One Design Championships, which was to form the Impala Solent championships, were cancelled. Here’s hoping all your boats safely sat out last night’s storm…
Imptish, Two Frank and Trudi raced on Sunday on day three of the Garmin Hamble Winter series. All week the forecast had not looked encouraging, and the weather didn’t improve on race day with racing run in a gusty and shifty 15 to 25 kn with occasional torrential rain making Read more…