Today The Brass Monkey race series kicked off at Erith Yacht club. EYC members and LNS students and staff hit the water to battle each other and the elements. After a surprisingly fast recovery of all boats during which I successfully de-rigged my first Feva with Eric and Sankofa, we tucked into hot soup courtesy of Shakira Choudry. It was just perfect. Find some photographs  I snapped from our safety boat helmed by Ed Sumner below.
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- The Youth Course
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- Lasers and Fevas
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- And LNS Feva sailing down wind
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- The fleet converges to find shallow water
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- The committee boat at the end of race one. Toppers and Lasers at the finish.
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- Helm: Tobias Crew: Alex
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- Laser fleet against the Essex shore
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- Sankofa and Eric round the buoy
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- Lasers against “the ship”
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- Paul finishes a race early
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- James was a great committee member. Ate a lot of biscuits.
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- Alex and Tobias spring into action
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- Among the moorings
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- Spinnaker
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- The working river has its perils!
