After two days wiped out due to high wind limits, the thoroughbred competitors entered in the GBR Nationals, or Britnats, as the Aussies call it, where starting to get rather twitchy. But on day 3, Weymouth finally delivered, albeit with a few jellyfish the size of...
With all of the variables that go with yacht racing: the crew, the competition and obviously the weather, each race is totally different. This year, for us, the lack of competition for Concise 10 detracted from the Fastnet Race. On the other hand, our crew...
Watch Concise 10 take overall line honours in the 2017 Rolex Fastnet Race. Finishing with an elapsed time of 42 hours and 55 minutes, Concise 10 finished over 200 miles ahead of the next boat....
The 50 odd mile Round the Island Race has been a prominent feature throughout the Team Concise MOD 70 program. It was the first race we did hours after taking delivery of the new beast two years ago. Over the past two years we had...
Watch Concise 10 breaking the 2017 Round the Island race. The team completed a 2 hour - 22 minute - 23 second lap, breaking the previous record set last year by sister ship Phaedo....
On Monday the 28th Nov, Concise 10 left Hamble (with Ned, Tom Dawson, Martin Watts, Jonny Malbon and Tim Rogers on board) for a rather quick/ windy downwind blast out of the channel, across Biscay to Vigo in northern Spain. [caption id="attachment_16990" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Concise 10,...
The Sandy Lane Charitable Trust raises millions of dollars each year to help support needy children in Barbados. It does a fabulous job. This year Comedian Russ Abbot was at his disarming best as he set about extracting as much as money as possible from the great...
Taking line honours in last Friday’s Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Cowes / St Malo Race, represented a milestone for Concise 10 (our MOD 70) both literally and figuratively. It marked exactly one year since the French sailors stepped off Concise 10 into their chase boat...
Incredible race that had it all. Gutted to have missed this one in the last minutes but sometimes in sailing, well...
Hot foot from successes in America – a podium place at The Atlantic Cup – and a weekend of coaching during the Dubarry Women’s Open Keelboat Championships in the Solent, Libby Greenhalgh is now heading to the Irish Sea. Wearing Magenta Project “colours” she will be...