I have a natural affinity for small Islands. It could be nature or nurture? My family married into the Le Pages from Guernsey - so I guess that got me started down the road. Like a lot of these things it was happenstance. When the Germans invaded the...
Running Team Concise is sometimes,”worse than charity”. Keeping three boats afloat, helping young sailors get into offshore racing isn’t always easy. It can be draining in more ways than one, and at times it can appear to be thankless. But in reality we at Team Concise...
While New Zealand’s Glenn Ashby (Emirates Team New Zealand) and the U.K.’s Sir Ben Ainslie (Landover BAR) were choosing to lock horns in the desperate pursuit of the Americas Cup, here in Barbados their respective High Commissioners’ to the West Indies, Jan Henderson and Victoria Dean...
It was with much more than the usual pre-race nerves that Skipper Ned Collier Wakefield drove Team Concise’s MOD 70, Ms. Barbados at 27 knots towards the line for the start of the 2015 RORC Transatlantic Race off Puerto Calero, Lanzarote, Spain. The teams two earlier...
Click here to see the latest video update from Ned on Concise 10 as they fly West in excess of 30 knots. Tony Lawson CEO Team Concise ...
At 12.10 on Saturday 28th November Team Concise’s MOD 70, flew across the line, bang on time, for the start of the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s 2015 Transatlantic Race which runs from Arrecife (Lanzarote) to Grenada, (West Indies), some 2800 miles of open ocean. Newly christened Ms. Barbados as...
Long distance runners subject themselves to hours of lung burning high altitude training. Jockeys starve to make their weight. Tennis players suffer mental torture as they battle it out on court - gladiatorial style. You can see it - the mental ticks. You hear them screaming - cursing the linesmen, their...
The blast of wind shook everything. It was like an express train charging by. Rudely woken up, I turned over and squinted at the weather repeater by my bed – 50 knots, 53 knots, 45 knots - blowing a gale. My worries were straight away...
We have been asked to give a bit of an idea of what life is like on board a "Class 40” boat during these long offshore races. Well, the early stages of the Route du Rhum and the Transat Jacques Vabre, are rarely pretty. The races normally...
It is usually about now, just before the start of a big race that the questions start flooding into HQ. in Haslemere. Q. How many miles is it? Ans. The Transat Jacques Vabre (TJV) is from Le Havre, France to Itajai in Southern Brazil. It is...