Bob Trimble and Alan King
Photo: David Harding, Sailing Scenes
Bob:
When younger, Bob sailed dinghies, then windsurfers and was an active diver. For the past twenty years he’s sailed double handed with his wife Jan throughout the Mediterranean, Caribbean and around the UK and French coasts.
They got involved in double handed racing with the RSYC after joining the Club in 2004, first with their 35ft Maxi 1050 and now with Arc. They enjoy the competition of racing but equally value the camaraderie of the double-handers both afloat and ashore.
Bob is looking forward to the challenge of the Biscay Race and the opportunity it gives to really put Arc through her paces.
When not racing, and not following his full-time day job, Bob may be cruising with Jan or taking RYA practical sailing courses on Arc which he operates part-time as an RYA sailing school.
Alan:
Alan first sailed solo in a gaff rigged clinker dinghy at the age of eight on the Norfolk Broads when his father pushed him away from the bank with the words “yes I think you are ready to be on your own now”. After many years dinghy sailing, including teaching children to sail as an RYA Dinghy Instructor, he discovered keel boat sailing about ten years ago. Since then he and his wife Ros have sailed thousands of miles together in UK/Europe and the Caribbean.
Their present boat is Hallberg Rassy 36 sailed back to the UK from the Baltic and kept on a mooring in the Hamble.
He thinks sailing is the best way to enjoy yourself with your clothes on.
Arc
Arc is a 2007 Arcona 400 bought in 2009 after she’d been raced out of Dartmouth for two years by her first owners . She’s a well equipped and solidly built Swedish cruiser/racer. Not much work was required to meet the Category 2 regulations other than the addition of an extra bilge pump, a trysail and washboard retainers. She’s a 39ft boat with a large rig but her lines and controls have been tuned to make her easy to sail short handed.