No . 132 The Trusty Servant
learn how to think , you can learn how to look ahead . Clem Sunter and Mitch Ilbury teach us the futurist ’ s art of decision-making by re-imagining seminal concepts from some of history ’ s greatest thinkers . 176 Pages . Penguin Random House South Africa . ISBN : 978-1776096299
OW Sporting News
Gordon Baker ( H , 84-89 ) writes : An old Kennyite friend , Dominic Herbert ( D , 84-89 ) completed an Iron Man triathlon at Hever castle on 4 th July . He ended up 10 th overall but 1 st in his ( over 50s ) age category and expects to be selected to represent GB at future World Championships races .
OW Sailing After 2020 when no sailing took place it was excellent to get back to normal . The weekend of 11 th -12 th September saw the Reggie Bennett trophy sailed
at Seaview in a new format involving Ryde School ( alumni and current ) as well as Radley and Winchester . The OW team ( Robin Garton , Noel Dobbs , Gordon Baker , Tom Clementi , Tiger Tellwright and James Eynon ) were the overall winners and Casper Gray was the Race Officer . The College team also had a very successful day , beating Radley to win the Mermaid Trophy .
On 1 st October , five of us met at Port Solent to collect our Sunsail boat for the Arrow weekend in Cowes . We were joined in Cowes by the rest of the crew . Conditions on both Saturday and Sunday were challenging and there were fewer races than normal . Our team ( David Anderson , Richard Darley , Alastair Moye , Roderick Walker , Tim Wolfe- Barry , Hamish Macnamara , Duncan Byatt , Gerard Cloke Browne and Paul Phillips ) saw performance improve over the event , winning the final race on the Sunday . We were in 4 th place overall . Paul Phillips ’ wife was sailing for the Roedean boat .
Our Annual dinner takes place on Tuesday 23 rd November .
Any OW who wishes to join our activities should contact David Anderson , via david . anderson @ epladvisory . co . uk .
Bessie ’ s gallop is an annual waterborne Charterhouse celebration of Good Queen Bess , their founder . This year the race was held in memory of George Mallory , who was a beak at Charterhouse from 1910 – 1920 as well as a Wykehamist ( see other articles ) – and so the Old Wykehamist sailors were asked to join the Charterhouse race . It took place on Saturday 6 th November . Lionel Hoare and Duncan Byatt took Medronha , Lionel ’ s classic 31ft Fairey Spearfish , over to Cowes on Friday evening and were in situ to join the pursuit race on Saturday , starting on the Royal London starting line in Cowes . The Carthusian sailing yachts were given a roughly 2-3 hour head start under the handicapping system , meaning that , as the sole classic motor boat , we started the 20-mile course much later at 1.10pm . Medronha performed faultlessly in rough Solent conditions – the crew reported being shaken but not stirred . Despite doing a healthy 22-27 knots all the way round the course and covering much of the Eastern Solent in the process , a strong westerly force 6-7 wind meant that the sailing boats
OWSC at Cowes
Lionel Hoare and Duncan Byatt on board Medronha
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