Foreign funding and support from Lord Irvine Laidlaw coupled with local expertise in the form of Rick Nankin, ensured that the second Fling Regatta was as successful as the first. One can always guage the acceptance of an event by the volume of entries. This year they had almost doubled, to the tune of forty two boats, split into three divisions: IRC, Club Div 1 and Club Div 2. Just in case you didn't know, Lord Laidlaw has several yachts based around the world and all of them end in the word Fling . So he has Highland Fling in Scotland and Cape Fling here, and so on..... Capiche?
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