Klaus Harris » Sailing
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I'm an internet techie and work at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack and WordPress VIP in the Special Projects Team. Outside work and tech, my main thing is dinghy sailing, and I'm also an RYA instructor where I teach voluntarily at my local sailing club. Keep informed about my journey.
Klaus Harris » Sailing
22h ago
Swanage’s racing has ended for 2024, and I’ve started sailing at Poole Yacht Club again now in Poole Harbour. PYC has an excellent Aero/ILCA fleet and race over the winter. The Saturday morning format is… More ..read more
Klaus Harris » Sailing
1w ago
Links There seems to be a rhythm to my sailing year and there is always one big event that focuses my training for the year. In 2024 it was the RS Aero world championships in… More ..read more
Klaus Harris » Sailing
3M ago
Timetable
https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/schedule/sailing
https://paris2024.sailing.org/racing/schedule/ – World Sailing site
How to Watch in the UK
https://www.yachtingworld.com/events-2/how-to-watch-paris-2024-olympic-sailing-competition-152194 ..read more
Klaus Harris » Sailing
5M ago
Some pics of the Nationals at Felpham SC, nearly all are by Jonathon Bailey @jonathan.2442.
Sailors and boats are gathering on the beach and starting to launch.
There were around 60 boats in all, the day one starts were tricky in the very light winds with a short start line. This contributed to a good number of general recalls.
Days 2 and 3 were pretty windy, with epic waves. The wind chart is from day 2, where racing started at midday. Felpham SC is on the open sea which means it has big waves.
The RS Aero 9 easily nose dives in strong gusts; see how far the helm below has to sit back to p ..read more
Klaus Harris » Sailing
9M ago
I’ve been joining the Poole Yacht Club ILCA / Aero fleet on Saturdays so far this year as my local club does no racing over the Winter. The Saturday format is a micro regatta of five short back-to-back races which is great for practising starts.
I’m enjoying sailing in Poole Harbour again and it’s been fun to have different tides to play in.
A murky very cold early January day.That’s me in 3328
I also did the RYA VHF marine radio course, which is a globally recognised qualification. This is a great course; not only did we learn to deal with regular comms and emergency situations, but we also l ..read more
Klaus Harris » Sailing
11M ago
Starcross Steamer, Handicap Pursuit Race January
This was a great start to the year and I finished just under halfway down the fleet which was an open event personal best.
January Solo Sailing in Swanage
Making the best of breaks in the weather
Yeovil Handicap Pursuit Race February
A great fun race but tricky, inland sailing is quite different to sea sailing.
Lee on Solent, two-day Aero open, February
This event had ups and downs. I totally messed up race one by getting my course wrong in the tides, but got it right thereafter. My starts were poor costing many places but the beats w ..read more
Klaus Harris » Sailing
1y ago
Last Sunday saw the first race and first open event of 2023, the Starcross Steamer, a handicap pursuit race on the Exe estuary in the UK.
Pursuit races are a great fun race format. All boat classes have a handicap, the race has a fixed length (e.g. 150 mins), slower boats start first, faster boats later with the idea being everyone is trying to catch up to and overtake everyone else. After the fixed race time, the race is stopped, and positions are taken by the safety boats.
Here’s the write-up and results in Yachts and Yachting, I sailed an RS Aero 9.
It was an early start to the day, and we ..read more
Klaus Harris » Sailing
1y ago
Looking back, 2022 was a great year on the water. My main sailing goal for the year was to compete in the RS Aero Championships, a five day event. The months of training were a success and I managed all five days.
In May I did a kayak fishing course and got to paddle around Old Harry Rocks. I didn’t catch anything but paddling around the rocks was awesome. We want to do more kayaking in 2023 and try to catch some fish too.
The first open of the year was the Lymington RS Aero open in May. It was a very light wind tricky conditions day.
From May to July, I’m a volunteer dinghy instructo ..read more
Klaus Harris » Sailing
1y ago
I took part in the RS Aero Europeans this Summer, a five-day event held at the Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA), the venue for sailing during the 2012 Olympics. This event was part of the epic RS Games.
I was training up to this one all year, and it was an amazing week with five days of fantastic racing. I learned so much, not just from the racing but from the chats off the water, and fellow sailors offering advice and tips.
There’s a good write-up in Yachts and Yachting and some footage on Youtube (RS Games days 12-16). Here are some of my pictures.
The 7s coming bac ..read more