What are we doing?
Barda is all about enjoying safe yacht racing at the highest level we can achieve as weekend sailors on a limited budget. Having fun is as important to me as doing well and even if we don’t get into the prizes, as long as we’ve sailed as well and as we possibly can then that’s a good result. Actually that’s bollocks. We’re going out to win and although I don’t want to lose the ‘fun’ side of sailing on Barda, we're going to need to work bloody hard if we’re to reach our potential.

We have an old but very quick boat, a lot of talent and more years of experience aboard than I want to count. In short there’s no reason at all why we can’t lift our game, hike hard, practice slick boat handling and kick some very serious arse.

The effort starts right here with this A to Z guide to sailing Barda, which hopefully covers just about everything you'll need to know if you're going to race aboard Barda...

• A Is for anchor and arseholes. >>
• B Is for boom. >>
• C Is for clipping on, clothing and cocks. >>
• D Is for dan bouy, ditch bag and drinking. >>
• E Is for engine check list, and etiquette. >>
• F Is for feet, fire, first aid, flags and food. >>
• G Is for gas (and the stove) and gloves. >>
• H Is for handicap (PY & IRC) and hydration. >>
• I Is for inflatable dolls. >>
• J Is for Juvenile Delinquent. >>
• K Is for keys. >>
• L Is for library, lifejackets, locks and lookout.>>
• M Is for maintenance and man overboard (MOB). >>
• N Is for night sailing. >>
• O Is for "Ooops!" >>
• P Is for porn, protests and pumps. >>
• Q Is for questions. >>
• R Is for reefing and rubbish. >>
• S Is for sails, Sibella, sitting-out, smoking, storage, sun protection and SYC. >>
• T Is for tea and coffee and tools. >>
• U Is for unhelpful comments. >>
• V Is for valuables and VHF radio. >>
• W Is for WC (the heads) and when it blows (Weather and safety) and winch handles. >>
• X Is for X rated. >>
• Y Is for yelling. >>
• Z Is for zebras. >>