Geoff Gritton has been doing us proud winning the May Mugs Medium Handicap. Mark White has just won the Round The Islands Race (a wonderful tribute to his dad who died 8 years ago to the day) and Graham and Claire are up and running. But the rest of us need to get our act together and get on the water as our favourite events are looming up fast.

We have Brightlingsea Regatta next weekend (our race is on Sunday 3rd at 14.00 from BSC), Wivenhoe Regatta on 16th June, Rowhedge Regatta on 30th June, which will be followed by our annual summer garden party being hosted this year by Sue & Adrian Bouckley (we are running a bus and details of how to book for this will follow shortly) and the BOD Regatta on 7th July. Plus we have our usual Thursday and Sunday races with both BSC and CYC and of course Learning & Skills Solutions Pyefleet Week is from 28 July to 3 August

Jumbo Too is due to go afloat this week. Alan is ready to go and will be out shortly. I will be racing in Wivenhoe, Rowhedge and the BOD Regattas as well as Pyefleet Week. Team Wilby/Holding is putting the finishing touches to the Mike. So come on everyone, lets get out there and start enjoying this fabulous weather.