The English Raid

After two highly successful English Raids in 2010 and 2011,  organised by George Trevelyan and myself, Moray Macphail (of Classic Marine fame) has kindly volunteered to organise one for 2012.

Moray’s thoughts for English Raid 3 to be based at Shotley on the East Coast are here.

Keep ethos, and aim to replicate quality of food (!), but trying to simplify some of the arrangements.

The main element is to base in one location, OK it isn’t a circuit, but has the following advantages

-        much easier logistics for all types of accommodation

-        more flexibility in responding to varying weather conditions

-        easier to cope with people doing part time involvement

-        easier to keep to time for evening arrangements

Further simplification will come from

-        limiting to trailer-sailers, maximum 30 boats– would prefer to have too many applicants and a waiting list

-        envisage maybe 3 classes

-        sail & oar

-        slow

-        fast

-        limiting Raid involvement to liveaboard or camping only (if people want to rent a house or do B&B then they can and that is made easier with a base location raid)

All comments should be addressed to Moray whose e-mail address will be left as an exercise for readers (as they used to say) in order to avoid triggering the spam generators but here’s a clue (er3harwich at gmail.com).

Geoff Probert July 2011