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Jengu, as with any boat, is a work in progress. The more we fix and fettle the more we find we need to fix. As a consequence January 2016 saw us working on more of the issues with Jengu that had been highlighted after a full seasons sailing. Our number one priority was to check the rudder...

The beginning of November saw us return to the Solent again for an informal weekends sailing with London Corinthian Sailing Clubs offshore group. The Not Race and Hot Toddy evening have become a traditional end of season outing. Its a simple format, we get together at Hamble Point on a Friday...

The 2nd weekend in September saw us back on the water after the August break. August for some people might be Cowes week and the peak of the sailing season but for us its always been school holidays and time out with the family. This year we took advantage of the downtime to take Jengu out of...

Last weekend was our first serious race outing for Jengu. We’ve had a couple of other trips including circuits of the Solent, racing to the Nab Tower and St Vaast, but this was our first serious test of the systems that we have installed and configured over the last 6 months. As described in...

When I first saw Jengu it was November it was a foul day at Hamble Point and the wind was strong enough to be moving the boat around even though it was on dry land. I didn’t pay much attention to the fact that the instruments said it was blowing 100knots. It seemed plausible. Fast forward to a...

We have a full set of North J109 Class sails to play with No1, No2 and No3 in 3DL, plus a couple of spares. 3 Asymmetric Spinnakers, storm jib, tri-sail and 3DL Main sail. All of which have gone to North Sails in Gosport for their annual TLC season…. all quite a car boot full. Bill January 2016...

Jengu leaks … there is no getting away from it. She’s worked hard on the race course in her previous life and too much swinging on the stanchions has gone on. We are going to need to do some work to create a reasonably dry working environment. We’ve had an exciting first weekend of maintenance...

Since Ashtree Marines reorganisation at the end of December 2016 we have been lucky enought to get our hands on a new toy. Jengu, as we are calling her, will make it possible for us to test our software more consistently on the race course. Jengu is a J109. We have a lot of work to do over the...