| Musto
Skiffs at the Tiger Trophy 2010 The
annual event held by Rutland Sailing Club in support of
the John Merricks Sailing Trust is usually either blowing
20knots + or light, but still attracts upwards of 200 entries
from different classes. This year was no exception with
an entry of 176 boats, and light winds for both days of
racing. More
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 Skiff
coaching at Blackwater Sailing Club with Ian Turnbull 15
club boats and visitors of various skiff classes arrived
at Blackwater Sailing Club just outside Maldon in Essex
for a weekend of coaching with top skiff sailor Ian (Bov)
Turnbull. Organised by Jon Simpson from the home club, the
sailors were ready to go at 11:00 on Saturday morning, with
a good breeze, and brilliant sunshine. All be it that they
also had to remove the ice from their ropes and centreboard
gaskets etc as it was still -2°c… Read
more >>>
 Accommodation
for the Melbourne Worlds Please
find attached details of accomodation
options for the event. If you are interested in taking advantage
of the billet option you need to register your interest
ASAP. More
worlds info >>>
Accomodation
Details >>>
 Australian
Musto Performance Skiff Championships The inaugural
Musto Performance Skiff Australian Championships was held
at Black Rock Yacht Club on Melbourne’s Port Phillip Bay
from the 6th to 11th of January. The event was an opportunity
to test the race management, scheduling and weather conditions
for the Musto
Performance Skiff World Championships, to be held at the
same venue in exactly 12 months time. The event was supported
by the International Musto Performance Skiff Association’s
training fund.
Read the excellent full report >>>
Money for old
rope ... well sails actually Musto are planning a
Musto Skiff feature in their retail stores and are looking
for a number of old sails to use as part of their displays.
So, if you have an old sail that you no longer use why not
trade it in with Musto for some of their kit? Musto are
offering a £300 voucher for kit ordered at retail
price. Sails just need to have no holes ... if you are interested
then you need to contact Paul
for more details, first come first served ...
What Musto Skiff Sailors do in the
winter With our lakes frozen and snow
drifts covering the roads, an MPS sailor needs to find other
things to keep himself occupied. Andy Peake and his team
mate, Michael Sugden, have been taking advantage of the
cold weather to train for their April expedition to the
North Pole. Read
more >>>
2011 Worlds shipping and flight information
The International committee has been
working on container shipping and flight options fro the
2011 World championships at Black Rock Melbourne. Things
you should know! If you would like to add your name and
details to a master list of participants from Europe or
North America who are intending to take part in Black Rock,
please drop Paul a line at paul@mustoskiff.com
who is maintaining a database, and is liaising with the
container shipping companies and flight options. This will
give us a much better idea of numbers for booking flights
and containers at the best possible rates. Flight
information At the moment, we cannot get confirmed
flight details from any European carrier flying out of major
European airports to Melbourne for our regatta dates, as
this is currently too far in the future. We have contacted
all major carriers, and have requested information on group
bookings and best deals available. Please keep an eye on
this area of the event webpage for updates. Container
shipping As with the flights, the time period is
too far in the future for the shipping companies to give
us prices for containers from mainland Europe via Rotterdam
or the UK via Southampton or Felixstowe. Again, please keep
an eye on this area of the event webpage for updates. We
do have provisional quotes, but they are only valid for
90 days. More
details >>>
Advice on most likely mast failure
modes and insurance claims The class
association has been working with top UK dinghy insurance
company Noble Marine Insurance to produce a guide that will
help individuals in the unfortunate situation of having
broken their mast. The majority of insurance companies covering
dinghy classes will use a standard response to a broken
carbon fibre mast of requesting a quote for a new mast and
a repair. This is based on most classes have a one piece
mast, which is going to be very expensive to replace. However,
one of the original design criteria for our class was that
the mast should come apart so it can be transported inside
the length of the boat. More
details >>>
Coaching weekend
with Ian Turnbull Jon Simpson has arranged with top
skiff sailor and coach, Ian Turnbull, to run a weekend of
on and off the water performance and boat handling sessions.
For those of you that don’t know Ian, he previously worked
for Ovington Boats, and has sailed Int. 14, 18 footers and
Musto Performance Skiffs at the highest levels (2nd at the
Worlds), and is a nice bloke too! More
information >>>
 2009
Musto Skiff Survey, 7th Year Running - by Ovington Boats
The 2009 MPS Survey is now
closed and the results indicate that we have a great future
ahead. This is the 7th year we have conducted the survey.
To review the summary and/or full results>>>
AUSTRALIAN
MUSTO PERFORMANCE SKIFF WEEK
6th – 10thJanuary 2010 Black Rock Yacht
Club Half Moon Bay, Black Rock, Victoria, Australia NOR
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 Training-racing
event Palma de Mallorca, 3-6 April 2010
On behalf of the spanish class association I´m pleased
to invite you all to the 2010 combined training racing event.
The plan is to train between 3 and 5 april, then race on
the last day. For those who didn´t come last year
we offer: A great lauching area in the beach next to Cub
Nautico S´Arenal, where the Princess Sofia Thropy
takes place, and where lot of 49er crews spend their winter
training. See
attached ignore the year >>>
 Flinders
(AUS) Skiff Weekend Last weekend saw the Melbourne
Musto fleet crack 10 boats for the first time at the annual
Flinders skiff weekend. With the recent arrival of 3 new
boats a couple of the guys were having their maiden voyage.
Flinders is a beautiful holiday village at the heads of
Westernport Bay, about an hour south of Melbourne. The I14s
have been making this trip once a year for the last 20 years.
Over the last few years the event has expanded to include
Mustos, B14s and Formula 15 skiffs. More
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ISAF RRS changes
for 2010 Following the recent ISAF annual conference,
please take a look at the following link for amendments
to the 2009 - 2012 Racing Rules of Sailing which will become
effective from 1st January 2010. Taken from the recent Y&Y
article "The International Sailing Federation announced
today that, as a result of actions taken by the ISAF Racing
Rules Committee and the ISAF Council during the ISAF Annual
Conference, several changes in The Racing Rules of Sailing
for 2009-2012 will take effect on 1 January 2010. More
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 Goal
Setting - The Professional Approach (with special offer
for MPS sailors) Have you set any goals for the coming
season? If you have, then well done – you are on the right
track. Of all the things that full-time, professional sailors
do that the rest of us weekend warriors do not do, structured
goal setting is probably the most important. Fortunately
it is also one of the less demanding activities (compared
to, say, completing 10,000 perfect tacks). With the right
approach it can be done quickly – and it can even be fun.
Read
more >>>
 It's
not all about the racing ... Mark
Haine organised a Skiff Cruise from Prestwick to Lamlash
on the Isle of Arran. That was 20 miles as the crow flies.
The weather picked up a bit for the return journey and it
was too rough for Kites – very exciting and totally exhausting.
There were 3 Mustos & 2 cats – supported by 2 RIBs.
It was great fun – fantastic to get to Lamlash and talk
to the local sailors – they were amazed. Read
more >>>
 Thank
You Gift Just so all the members know we always send
thank you gifts to our Championships hosts each year. The
framed photo (thank you to Tania
Samus whos photo it is) on the right is on it's way
to ELYC; thanks again chaps.
2009 Travellers Series Results
Well we are finally at the end of the
fixtures for 2009 and Gavin Homer has cranked out all the
numbers and we have some series winners.
Southern
Series: Dan Henderson
North
Series: Richard Purdy
Scottish
Series: Ian Renilson
Read more >>>
Musto
Skiff Inland Championships 07-08 November 2009 Report
by Michael Palfreman Record turn out of 43 boats
Despite a variety forecasts a fantastic turnout of 43 Musto
Skiffs made the journey to Grafham Water. In stark contrast
to previous years weather extremes were avoided, neither
did they receive a beasting from the weather gods nor did
they wake from their slumber on Sunday morning to be confronted
by a glassy windless calm. Conditions ranged from approximately
5-15 knots over the course of the weekend (depending on
which part of the lake you were on) so at some point every
sailor in the fleet was happy and of course being inland,
it was quite shifty. Read
the full report >>>
South Travelers
Series Showdown Well for the first time in a long
time Sten wont be winning the travellers. So it will be
a straight fight between youth & experience. Current
results >>>
 WEYMOUTH
MUSTO SKIFF OPEN MEETING 22 Musto Skiffs arrived
at the Sailing Academy to be met by persistent rain and
wind, lovely conditions to rig up in. The race briefing
was called and all bar Keen (who arrived late) attended
on time to escape the elements. The race officer stated
the forecast was for the wind strength to increase and we
already had an average of 24 Knots on the harbour wall,
a decision would be made later.
Read the full report >>>
 Musto
Skiff Product Evolution Over the
years a number of minor changes have been made to the standard
Musto Performance Skiff to address minor niggles that have
been noted by the owners over the years. Fortunatly the
class and the builder have always worked well together and
these problems have been addressed in standard boat gradually
improving the product for everyone as time goes by ... More
details >>>
2010 Fixtures Please
find below a link to the 2010 Fixtures. We know many of
you have to book holidays well in advance and so having
the fixtures available so soon is a big help to everyone.
More
details>>>
Weymouth and Portland National
Sailing Academy (WPNSA) Open Meeting 24th & 25th October
- You
Must Enter In Advance!! ENTRIES
STILL OPEN All please find here a link to
the NOR
2009
Ovington Boats Musto Skiff On-Line Survey In 2003
the MPS class conducted probably the first on-line survey
by a dinghy class association; this was a key activity for
understanding the correct direction for a young class. The
on-line survey has been supported by the builder every year
since and is a key activity of planning the progress of
the class and for also dealing with many detail issues such
as minor revisions of class rules to understanding the impact
of the class sponsors. Click
here to find out more and take the survey >>>
It's our 10th
Birthday ... soon make
your comments here >>>
Australian
Fleet Report sent to local (in Aus) media Recently
three Musto Performance Skiff (MPS) skippers travelled from
newly established fleets in Melbourne and Brisbane to contest
the 2009 European Championship on Lake Garda in Italy in
preparation for the upcoming World MPS Championship at Melbourne’s
Black Rock Yacht Club in 2011. Marcus Hamilton and Tim Hill
travelled from Melbourne, while class pioneer Jason Beebe
made the trek from Brisbane. All three sailors had previously
enjoyed success in international classes such as the International
Contender and I14 , before moving onto the challenge of
the MPS. Read
more >>>
 2009
HOLT Tide Ride The forecast for
the 2009 HOLT Tide Ride was for a fresh 20 – 30 knot South
westerly wind for Saturday’s qualification series and more
moderate conditions for finals day on Sunday. The prospect
of a short course racing format with multiple down wind
gates set on shallow water and the potential wind against
tide situation to attract some swell was more than enough
to tempt a brave contingent of Musto Skiff Sailors down
to Hayling Island to participate in some awesome racing.
With 4 of the top 6 from the recent European Championships
in attendance there was quality to match the format. Read
more >>>
 Melbourne
Worlds T Shirts. Many of you brought
these promotional T shirts in Garda but there are more available.
Excellent design and a great way to spread the message about
this major forthcoming event ....
Buy
now >>>
 MPS
at 50. Internationale Bootsausstellung Hamburg In
1999 Dr. Joachim Harprecht (Schappi) presented the prototype
of his Olympic Singlehander Project at the Hamburg International
Boat Show. Find
out more >>>
ISAF International Measurers Seminar
9th – 11th September 2009 As part of
our classes on going commitment to ISAF, we are obliged
to send our International Measurers on a course that is
designed to standardise the knowledge base across all ISAF
class IM’s. As both Chris and I were helping with the Sail
for Gold Olympic regatta in Weymouth, this meant we could
kill two birds with one stone, as the conference was also
in Weymouth! Read
more >>>
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US
& Canada Dealer Has Boats in Stock 
Double
Olympic 49er medallist Simon Hiscocks recently joint the
Musto Skiff fleet to compete in the Gold Cup at Lake Garda
as part of his post Olympic relaxation. During the event
he maintained a diary of his experiences which were recently
published in the UK sailing magazine Yachts and Yachting
. For those of you who missed the magazine here is the article,
for those of you who did read it - here is the unedited
version
