Sailing

I recently crossed the Channel with John Nicholas and his merry crew on JEBA - a nice new Benetau 40.7. She goes like a dream upwind (being Bruce Farr designed), and is mainly very well sailed by the experienced crew. John and his son Ben are both excellent Tasar sailors (a Tasar being one of the original fast planing dinghies which I think originated in Australia - as did they). John won some world championships I think and Ben is British Champion at the moment.

John's got a good blog going about JEBA's adventures which includes an account of the weekend's trip over to St Helier in Jersey, and shortly thereafter back from whence we came - Lymington.

I was so fried after we returned that I slept in the car in Dorset lay-by until ten the next morning, before rushing back to Cornwall to get on with some work.

Anyway please have a look at John's excellent JEBA blog here: http://jebasailing.wordpress.com/