Three generations
It has been a busy month for the Y&Y team, with the Fastnet, Cowes Week, SailGP, J/70 worlds and many other first class events taking place in what have just about passed for British summer conditions. My foulies got wetter at Cowes Week than they did most of last winter, but we had some great racing and Lawrence Mead and his team deserve praise for keeping the starts going in highly changeable conditions. Cowes Week is rightly known for its racing, but not everyone is gunning for victory at all costs. For many people it is the only regatta they do. It is a fun event and also a family event, sometimes with three generations on the same boat, like the Hill family, pictured above, who have been racing at Cowes…