8th May 2016 Bob Sampson and Nathan Pollard at the start of a full-on few minutes; note the effect of the telephoto, bringing into view the meadow flowers in the field behind Picture of the day: James Pollard more in the water than in the boat, ploughing through the water at high speed as a gust momentarily dies Bosun (with John Buckett, Brian Pollard and Geoff Floyd), on a broad reach, with small flat-cut Otter sails, three up, two sitting out – and still going like a train….. Bob Sampson not far from the Dam, at a point where there’s practically no fetch in the south-easterly wind – and already there are whitecaps showing Bob, James and Nathan, in the windiest part of the lake James heading back from West James beating back towards the Dam Nathan still holding it together as he ends the race as the only finisher