The Brothers Grimm Simon and Mark Maskell
Simon Maskell So why you ask in the Solo Magazine are you now looking at a Fireball on a 2 sail reach. Well, this is a photo taken of my brother and I, at a sunny but windy and cold Stevie Nicholson event at Northampton SC in February quite a few years back and it’s what we used to do before racing our Solo’s. I am on the back and brother Simon is posing for the Camera on the wire. At the recent Midland Area Championships again at Northampton Will Loy approached us and asked if we would tell our story so here it is. I had a Contender for a while, beautiful boats to look at and sail. Size wise not the smartest choice for me. Attending opens would incur a neck ache looking skywards up to my competitors, big guys most of those Contender chaps - damn good sailors too, awesome boat handling skills. I was just too small for that boat and so Mark kept pushing me to get a Solo, I resisted as long as possible until on my 50th birthday he presented me with a framed certificate, fully endorsed with the Solo Class Association logo etc, all very formal, stating I was now o ffi cially old enough to get one! I eventually relented and now many years later have enjoyed some of the best racing I’ve had and with a great crowd of people. I think one of my first opens was an Inlands at Rutland, no idea really of boat set up so just went out and sailed. Light winds, suited me and did ok, liked the boat and met the infamous legend that is Will Loy and was asked
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