May '13

Late April saw the US IOM Nationals held in San Francisco from the Team Oracle AC base. Sunny skies and good winds made a pleasant change from the cold of an extended UK winter. With borrowed BritPOP #1 and a strong start, a lack of racing practice since last years Euros win proved to be costly with some bad tactical decisions and incidents, along with a dead receiver in race 8 while leading comfortably, putting an end to any chance of a win. The racing was dominated by the first 3 boats with Ian Vickers racing his well prepared V8 cleanly on home waters for a 7 point win. 3rd place was taken by Eric Arndt sailing his original Lintel to his usual high standards that regularly holds him as the top US IOM skipper to beat.
The event was collectively a fantastic result for our designs and sails with no less than 14 BritPOP's finishing in the top 20 from a fleet of 55 entries. Once again a number of BritPOP skippers recorded personnel best Nationals results reinforcing our products ability to improve skippers fortunes regardless of relative experience or abilities like no other. A big thank you once again for everyone connected with the race organisation and Matty Mason and everyone at Team Oracle for making it happen in what is a very busy time for them. Good luck guys!

Back in the UK Graham Elliott and a strong group of BritPOPs continued in great style at Coal House Fort in the second UK ranking weekend of the year. Saturday saw 7 BPs in the top 10 with Graham Elliott winning from Darin Ballington and Graham Bantock. Sunday saw 5 BP's in the top 10 with Graham Elliott taking 2nd place behind Martin Roberts and just ahead of Peter Stollery in his Isotonic in 3rd.

The Italian BP domination continues with Pierluigi Puthod and Gianluigi Rudoni having another 1-2 finish in the recent round of their National Ranking since our last update.

Looking forward we have new 10 rater and RG65 design lines well underway for long time BG supporters in AUS, BRA & GBR, along with new IOM & RM lines plans for home build scheduled for the second half of 2013.

Finally Victoria and I were married on May 1st in Las Vegas, the 20 year old solo has had its first win at West Kirby and the UK RM Nationals are coming up with a world class field in a couple of weeks, summer's finally here.

Life's good!

Update May 13
Congratulations Olivier Cohen for comprehensively winning the 2013 French IOM Nationals by 19 points with his BG BritPOP. This is now back to back wins for Olivier and his third win in total using BG sails. Congratulations also to Patrice Montero in 4th place with his BG BritPOP. Once again BritPOPs had 4 boats in the top 10, more than any other design.

Some recent 2013 results of skippers using BG Sails
2nd USA IOM Championships - BG
1st & 2nd GBR IOM Ranking Race - Coal House Fort Day 1 - Graham Elliott & Darin Ballington
2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th GBR IOM Ranking Race - Coal House Fort Day 2 - Elliott, Stollery, Ballington & King
1st & 4th FRA IOM Championship - Olivier Cohen & Patrice Montero

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March '13

With winter now officially coming to an end here in the UK (well hopefully), we look forward to the coming season of racing both at home and abroad. Coming up this year is the USA IOM Nationals at the Team ORACLE base in San Francisco in April and a full season of IOM & RM club, ranking and national events here in the UK with other events on the cards.  The past winter months have been busy with a record number of sails being dispatched, a new BritPOP hitting the water and winning its first outing both days at the Woodspring ranking race and the purchase of an old Jack Holt designed Solo class dinghy for some summer evening racing at West Kirby on the site of the 2011 IOM Worlds.

Worldwide our sails and designs continue to enjoy success for their owners at all levels of competition. A fantastic story recently was in the Australian IOM nationals in January, every BritPOP skipper present sailed to personal best ever results, with Scott Condie finishing in 4th place behind the experience of multiple past winners Grieve, Jones & Smith. Scott coupled this result with a solid win in the Australian 10 Rater class with a BG rig and weight optimised Aero2 design built locally. Well done Scott! In Italy the BritPOPs of Pierluigi Puthod and Gialuigi Rudoni have dominated all regional IOM races this year with 1-2 finishes. Gian is racing the red '42' that won last years Euros and has quickly taken to the red rocket and shown that Pier will not have things all his own way in 2013.
In the USA, BritPOPs scored a recent 1,2,4,5,6,9,10 result in big wave top end A & B rig conditions. Congratulations all and see you in the US soon for some tuning and racing!
A big year ahead and while there is no time for complacency, we look forward to managing our time and commitments to better enhance our love of the sport.

See you all on the water soon!

Some recent 2013 results of skippers using BG Sails
1st & 4th Australian 10R Championships - Scott Condie & Owen Jarvis
4th
Australian 1OM Championships - Scott Condie
1st & 2nd GBR IOM Ranking Race - Woodspring Day 1 - BG,
Peter Stollery
1st & 2nd GBR IOM Ranking Race - Woodspring Day 2 - BG
2nd, 3rd & 4th NSW IOM Ranking Race - Scott Condie, Andrew Reid, Ian Hayden
2nd Dallas Blowout IOM Race - Brig North

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