Nice boat

[Elessar]

sorry about my VHF aerial, I was just about to dock and wanted the snap so didn't have time to compose it.

These chaps sailed this lovely boat up the Itchen as far as shamrock quay.

 

[Simondjuk]

Jolie Brise, if I'm not mistaken, fresh from a re-paint and brightwork on the Hamble. Indeed, a nice boat.

 

[yoda]

Definitely Jolie Brise, 3 time Fastnet winner and for about the last 35 years now she has been run by the sailing club at Dauntseys School (hence DS2 on the sail). Great to see the topsail set in confined water, not easy to handle in a hurry if you need to reduce sail quickly. She has no winches - just lots of tackles.

Yoda

 

[Elessar]

Definitely Jolie Brise, 3 time Fastnet winner and for about the last 35 years now she has been run by the sailing club at Dauntseys School (hence DS2 on the sail). Great to see the topsail set in confined water, not easy to handle in a hurry if you need to reduce sail quickly. She has no winches - just lots of tackles.

Yoda

Wow I'm more impressed now. From my vantage it looked like she was expertly handled

 

[saltylegs]

Out of "season" they will all be proper sailors onboard wanting to show how it should be done. "RESPECT"

 

[yoda]

Out of "season" they will all be proper sailors onboard wanting to show how it should be done. "RESPECT"

Indeed, but as it's Easter I expect it is the sailing master and a number of club members from the school. Seeing the individual on the end of that bowsprit brings back memories of some serious dunkings while handing the Yankee jib top in rough seas. Sadly warming up in front of the coal fired aga is now a thing of the past because of the requirements brought on by coding requirements etc.

Yoda

 

[westernman]

Definitely Jolie Brise, 3 time Fastnet winner and for about the last 35 years now she has been run by the sailing club at Dauntseys School (hence DS2 on the sail). Great to see the topsail set in confined water, not easy to handle in a hurry if you need to reduce sail quickly. She has no winches - just lots of tackles.

Yoda

The topsail is actually easy to manage. On the right tack it will go up and come down with little effort. The hanked on jib topsail is another matter - it requires some one on the end of the bow sprit to hank it on!

 

[Nikia]

I've been reliably informed that "Jolie Brise" will be taking part in the Brixham Heritage Regatta this year, on 25th May. Organisers are hoping for up to 40 classic vessels to take part, should be quite a spectacle if any of you want to come and watch - or take part!

 

[prv]

The topsail is actually easy to manage. On the right tack it will go up and come down with little effort.

Sure, but I still don't think I'd want it set up the top of the Itchen! Although it looks fairly wide in the picture, most of the water you can see is mudbank, the yellow buoys are pretty much the edge of the channel. Elessar's VHF aerial marks the other bank (well, the Shamrock pontoons) and it gets narrower as you go upstream (to the left of the picture). To the right, the river bends round, and you get flukey wind off the aggregate wharves and their silos (admittedly not too bad in the southeasterly they have in the picture). In fact, if they're hard on the wind where they are, once they get round the bottom of Shamrock it's going to be on the nose. I've tacked Kindred Spirit out along there, but she's half the length of Jolie Brise and it's still exciting.

Hats off to skipper and crew

Pete

 

[Elessar]

Sure, but I still don't think I'd want it set up the top of the Itchen! Although it looks fairly wide in the picture, most of the water you can see is mudbank, the yellow buoys are pretty much the edge of the channel. Elessar's VHF aerial marks the other bank (well, the Shamrock pontoons) and it gets narrower as you go upstream (to the left of the picture). To the right, the river bends round, and you get flukey wind off the aggregate wharves and their silos (admittedly not too bad in the southeasterly they have in the picture). In fact, if they're hard on the wind where they are, once they get round the bottom of Shamrock it's going to be on the nose. I've tacked Kindred Spirit out along there, but she's half the length of Jolie Brise and it's still exciting.

Hats off to skipper and crew

Pete

quite - actually it's even narrower than where my VHF is as just to the left out of shot there are the width of 4 moored boats sticking out into the river - I am just downstream of shamrock.

What's more I followed her up the river and couldn't catch her - I got the snap when she turned round!