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Stories from the water
Race reports, training reflections and the occasional opinion piece from the Unity crew.
The lights of Cherbourg beckon
An anonymous Friday afternoon and we’re about to do our first ever double handed yacht race. Destination: Cherbourg. On the way down Southampton Water, Alice tries the autopilot. It holds course for about 30 seconds before swinging off wildly. Looks like we’ll be hand steering the whole way across the Channel, then. Always good to make it challenging. What followed was 70 miles of zero sleep, a total struggle with sail trim, and a rather unglamorous bout of seasickness. Yet, despite purposely slowing the boat to avoid an awkward collision based conversation with Chris, we made it to France, and some how, we weren't last.
RORC Myth of Malham 2026 : The race was too light to be easy
No breaking seas. No green water. No crew clawing along the foredeck at three in the morning. No rig damage. No heroic photographs. No story of survival sufficiently dramatic to earn the bar's full attention, or perhaps one involving an anchor and a knife!
Project Chaos: Here Goes Nothing
Project Chaos is a double handed sailing team with absolutely no intention of taking ourselves too seriously. 2026 was all about getting the double handed training in and learning as much as possible from the Unity Sailing coaching team.
Hit by a Tidal Bore at the Needles…
Recount of sailing in to the needles and hit by a huge wave as it moved round the needles