http://www.amazonsailing.co.uk Jeanneau Sun Fast 3200 - GBR 9462R Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:17:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Chuffy and Tony collecting the Emmett Cup for winning the Bank-holiday weekend in Burnham Week at the Royal Thames Yacht Club prizegiving dinner. http://www.amazonsailing.co.uk/2011/11/20/emmett-cup/ The Amazon team at the prizegiving in the Crouch Yacht Club. From left to right; Harry, Iona, Tony, Chuffy and Tom, also helped by numerous other crew for part of the week who couldn't stay until the end, Duncan, Barry, Steve, Graham, Diane, Matt, Chris, Dan and Jamie. Thank you all for ... http://www.amazonsailing.co.uk/2011/09/14/burnham-week-2/ Final results for Amazon at the Dabchicks SailEast over the weekend, with winds ranging from 8 to 18 knots on Saturday and gusts of 25 knots on Sunday.  Three firsts in class won us class 2 for the weekend and also a third overall, our best result so far on ... http://www.amazonsailing.co.uk/2011/09/13/dabchicks-sail-east/ Final Burnham week results after another great week's sailing with everything from zero to 30 knots and clear blue skies to torrential rain. We won the Bank Holiday Weekend overall winning the Royal Thames Yacht Club Emmett Cup which is presented at the black tie prizewinners dinner in the club in ... http://www.amazonsailing.co.uk/2011/09/13/burnham-week/ Another successful weekend for Amazon as this time we joined the Haven series race from Harwich to Burnham with 19 starters and decided to race two-handed, just Ollie and myself.  The race started in about 13 knots from the south-west which gave a beat start from the Harwich breakwater, with ... http://www.amazonsailing.co.uk/2011/08/21/haven-series-crouch-race/ [gallery link="file" order="DESC"] From the Crouch Yacht Club website:  On Sunday morning 7th August the fleet were started off Bradwell Creek at 9.30 am to race for the Clare Cup back to Burnham. Amazon had joined the fleet at Bradwell late on Saturday to be able to take part in the ... http://www.amazonsailing.co.uk/2011/08/13/crouch-yacht-club-clare-cup/ Just to show you how close the relationship between Amazon and Inn Spirit is here is a photo from EAORA week in Holland this year. http://www.amazonsailing.co.uk/2011/08/05/amazon-and-inn-spirit/ Great day on the water with a 50 mile downwind race in 20 knots from Levington to Ramsgate and we won!!!! Only by 9 seconds to Oystercatcher - the boat was flying. For full report from Yachts and Yachting below: This year’s Walker Challenge Cup race on 23rd July was a 50 ... http://www.amazonsailing.co.uk/2011/07/23/eaora-walker-challenge/ At last I have the link to Jason’s really great video, which he has now published on YouTube, of the Sun Fast 3200 Amazon surfing down Heartbeat IV’s (Dufour 45) wake in this year’s Sunk Race to Holland in about 25 to 30 knots. The first sequence is as Heartbeat IV ... http://www.amazonsailing.co.uk/2011/07/17/sunk-race/   First inshore regatta for us on the new boat, so a big learning curve, but the crew handled it superbly and the results weren't too bad either. We had 7 onboard for the weekend with me, Chuffy, Iona, Ollie, Stewart, Graham, George for the Saturday and John Parker, now from ... http://www.amazonsailing.co.uk/2011/07/11/felixstowe-regatta/