Did anyone else make it to Yarmouth this year? I didn't see any other Heards in the harbour but I may well have missed someone. I was tied up alongside a Tamarisk 29 and there was at least one other there, plus a 24, as well as a crop of "Cornish" boats - an original Crabber, a few Shrimpers, a couple of Pilot Cutters - and a representative set of Yarmouth 23s (there's a surprise!). Plus an enormous number of real, old, wooden gaffers and a few modern replica-style boats, for example pilot cutters Polly Agatha and Amelie Rose (to name but two).
Saturday morning's race went much as usual - half-way round, tolerably well up in the fleet (that is, at least we weren't last...), and then the wind died and we all started drifting backwards.
Good weekend, though, and the weather was dry and warm. The weather gods seem to smile on Yarmouth for the Yogaff weekend, but it would be pleasant if they could blow a touch more consistently!
Posted on 08 Jun 2011 - 7:07pm
There were a few G&L boats at Yarmouth. We were rafted up alongside Susan J, and at the other end of the raft was Toucando, a 35' Quay Punt built by her first owner on a Martin Heard hull. Corncockle was on the next raft along, and I know that Verity was tucked around the corner from where we were.
Hope you all had a good trip home - we ended up motoring into a headwind all the way as my daughter had to catch a train home from Southampton. Unusual to get a consistent NE during the whole of Yogaff but it made a difference from the more normal calms! Pity NE is the direction that brings a lot of swell into the harbour, especially at high water...