IOS Race Video Clips

All clips © J. Bell or as noted.

2016

2014

Multihull start:

Fast handicap start:

Medium Handicap Start (part 1):

Medium Handicap Start (part 2):

Windsurfers / slow start:

2013

Race video courtesy of Peter Bruce:

2011

Fast Handicap Start

Medium Handicap Start

1997

Video footage: © Gary Pike 1997.

The following short clips are from the 1997 Island race.
They require the RealPlayer plugin to be installed. (All videos to be updated to YouTube shortly).

Clip 1 57 secs At the Kingsferry Bridge competitors must capsize their craft and walk underneath the bridge. This Graduate crew are unfortunate in demonstrating how not to do it! The RS400 of the eventual winners Steve Restall and Martyn Styles also features.

Clip 2 30 secs This Osprey crew try to walk their craft under the bridge upright!

Clip 3 50 secs Simon Allen in his International Canoe shows how it should be done.

Clip 4 1 min 2 0 secs Competitors sailing along the Swale, just after Ridham Dock and just before the bridge.

Clip 5 1 min 35 secs The fast handicap and sailboard start.

Clip 6 4 min 36 secs A short video including the medium handicap start, the Swale, the bridge, the finish and the winners.