Dougie Crocket gives the 10am cruise briefing

If you ever wondered how a great day on the Scotish cruise starts then take a look here (Tuesday May 1st 2012):

Lucas at the helm of Hot Lemon 6 on Scotland cruise

Last day in Scotland for Lucas and Marc, speeding back from Fingals Cave off the Isle of Mull. A great day.

Day 2 on the Scotland Cruise started a bit rough

Sunny photos from Scotland 2012 cruise

Day 1 based at Dunstaffnage Marina:

 

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French Omelette and Lemons don't mix.

An omelette and a bière in Cherbourg – plus attention from the gendarmerie.

By Mike Deacon

On a sunny Saturday in mid-summer 2010, Hot Lemon and I decided to take ourselves off for the day to enjoy the sights and gastronomie of Cherbourg as we have many times before. An uneventful voyage of 90 minutes from Lymington found me watching the world go by on the quayside with a giant omelette and a grande bière.

A tap on my shoulder and I was chatting with powerboat racer Fiona Pascoe and her mum. Fiona explained that fellow racer Vee Ganjavian had today intended to run his fabulous 100 knot race boat from Poole to Cherbourg attempting to set the first UIM World Record for this course. Fiona and mum had made a ferry crossing the previous evening so as to act as official timekeeper for Vee’s attempt but this morning the Cherbourg authorities had forbidden the attempt as they had something tricky going on and didn’t want a fast boat roaring into the harbour.

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Hot Lemon grabs the Poole to Cherbourg World Record

The Deacon family were wandering around Cowes in 2010 after the Cowes-Torquay-Cowes race when Dave said out of the blue, “I’ve just realised there is no World Record for the Poole to Cherbourg course” - Just the sort of thing that every normal family conversation might turn to when bored! A bit of investigation proved Dave was exactly right. The idea then rattled around in the Deacon family’s heads for almost a year until Mike’s wife Maggie heard one of her favourite tunes on the radio and said “Look guys - either stop daydreaming about this, or do it.” What tune had brought this issue to the fore? The Monkees and “Daydream Believer” - of course!

Team Hot Lemon were ready for a challenge and quickly organised scrutineering by the RYA and completed the mountains of paperwork needed to obtain the necessary permissions.

Bob and Sharon Eddings from the Royal Motor Yacht Club in Poole agreed to be the official timekeepers in their RIB Foxfire at the start line in Poole Bay, and Chris Strickland was accompanied in his RIB Seahound by power boater Russell Gould to be the official timekeepers in Cherbourg.

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RB12 deferred until 2014

Round Britain 2012 Land, Sea and Air Marathon has been deferred until 2014. For more details please click here

Biboa member safe after fire onboard...

Biboa member Bryn Beaurain is safe but - shook up.
 
The local news report says: Communications with Camaroon are not easy.
 
A vessel carrying Cameroonian banana for the world market reportedly caught fire on the high seas off the country’s territorial waters Monday, March 19.
 
Officials with the Association of Banana Producers of Cameroon, ASOBACAM, opting for anonymity said the extent of the damage could not be immediately fathomed.

However, it has been confirmed that a yet-to-identified crew member of the ship, christened

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Seahound V sets new National Speed Records

Photo courtesy of HotribsNot content with taking it easy this Autumn, at the start of November 2011 Chris Strickland and Jon Adlard decided to take Chris’s Scorpion Sting “Seahound V” on a road-trip to the lake district to participate in the Coniston Power Boat Records Week.

For those of us not familiar with this event, it is a “once a year” opportunity in the UK for those with big spheres to tear up and down Coniston Water at top speed. With all the official timing and organisational trimmings in place if you go fast enough you get a nice shiny star and a place in the record books for your efforts. The course is 1km up Coniston water and then return 1km. The average time is then taken and converted into mph.

This year there have been a few class changes, so Chris and Jon were able to go for a number of different records.

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