John Mountain Cup 2016

Last weekend RBYC had its Annual flagship event. A really great weekend of skills building with a bit of healthy competition thrown in. Friday night we were finding things in the dark en route to Gosport. I bet you didn't know you could see 30 different types of lights between Hamble and Portsmouth.

Saturday we found the only isolated danger in the Solent, navigated in the fog and went to see if we could see Bramble bank dry. Saturday Evening we had a delicious meal at RORC in Cowes where Les found his long lost uncle on a painting on the wall.

Sunday we had the pleasure of Cowes RNLI, the Hamble Lifeboat and Chris Beeson from Yachting monthly practicing getting lifelike dummies and real people from the water by various methods. Look out for the upcoming article in Yachting Monthly. 

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Final Results

Best Boat: Soiree with Skipper Krzysztof Przysowa , Neil Dunnet, Ursula Henderson, Jack Kennelly, Jakub Janc and Adjudicator Alex Dunn.

Runner Up: Faux Pas with Skipper Margareta Flicos, Andrew Burton, Tony Burton, Christian Wood, Jim Archibald and Adjudicator Les Harris

Best Skipper: Henri Grech

Runner Up: Margareta Flicos

Special Prizes:
Furthest Travelled: Jakub Janc from Poland
Largest number of humurous captions: Ursula Henderson
Getting in the Water for the RNLI: Margareta Flicos
Getting 5 Toots from the Red Funnel Ferry: Denis McFaul.