If you missed Internal Regatta III on Sunday 11 July, you missed one of the best we can recall! The winds were about perfect, fairly stable Bf 2 with periodic gusts higher and the resulting capsizes to keep crews concentrating. It was extremely hot but we ran the usual three heats for keelboats and a record four for dinghies, catamarans - where there was another record, surely: a total of 11 boats in that class, of which three privately owned by members. And a final record: we calculate five boats were competing in their first-ever regatta. Results on the webpage.

Surprisingly for those who remember regattas of a couple of years back, only three keelboats competed, so there would have been plenty of scope for less experienced members to come along regardless and probably find themselves a place. It is also noteworthy that the keelboat winner was Andrea Messina with an - ummm, may I say - less experienced crew himself! We hope this win bodes well for his forthcoming Translémanique en solitaire: see our webpage Blog and his own on http://micmac-andrea.blogspot.com/ .

There were also some very good photos taken from the Q-boat, doing valiant service as always: thanks to Luigi Gallerani, see http://picasaweb.google.it/lutz1982/YCCRegatta# and Daniel Teixeira, http://picasaweb.google.com/ddtxra/YCCRegatta11072010?authkey=Gv1sRgCJnqteK03tm9UQ for their efforts.

And final thanks to the Q-boat skipper Tim Hancox and most of all the Regatta Organiser, Christian Mester, who innovated by running the whole event from our Gipsy - very successfully!