Isis have taken up the Hendrick's Gin cucumber growing challenge. The seeds have been planted and watered (with Pure Dorset Water of course!)
Follow our progress on the Isis Facebook page.
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Hendricks Gin - http://www.hendricksgin.co.uk/uk/about/index.asp
Isis are pleased to announce that they passed the BWCA audit which was conducted by independant auditor Kathy Griffiths. Congratulations to all the staff, keep up the good work.
BWCA - http://www.bwca.org.uk
Isis would like to congratulate team member Andy Taylor on passing the BWCA plant audit course.
British Water Cooler Association (BWCA) - http://www.bwca.org.uk/
Check out the article In the October/November 2009 edition of R.I.B International about Team Isis and their European races.
Isis are proud to support the P.E.A.S 'run to school' race in London on Sunday (11th October 2009). P.E.A.S is a charity that aims to widen access to education in Africa by founding and developing sustainable, low-fee secondary schools. Come along and cheer the runners on!
More information can be found about the race and the P.E.A.S charity on their website:
www.peas.org.uk
Isis is now on Facebook... look for us in the Pages section under 'Isis' sign up and follow our progress!
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Peter Bonham Christie and Tilly Long of Team Isis compete for the European Thundercat Powerboat Title.
After great success competing in the UK, Team Isis decided to take on the best teams of Europe in the 2009 Thundercat European Championships held in Oregrund, Sweden. The Swedish are renound powerboat racers and take the sport to another level, so competition was always going to be tough.
“This our first season in the Thundercat Class and we weren’t sure how we would rank compared to the rest of Europe, however we decided we would never know unless we tried. Furthermore I am a great believer that one raises ones level to those they are competing against.” Explains Peter Bonham Christie.
After deciding to go, Team Isis had a short time in which to prepare. Although the team is well practised in circuit racing the European Championships also involves a 70 mile ‘Long Haul’ Race, which neither the team nor the boat were set up for.
After a day’s racing Team Isis had gained position four on the starting grid for the final. They held this position around nine gruelling laps to finish avery respectable 4th overall.
Team Isis where then persuaded to stay for the famous Roslagloppet Endurance Race, a 100 mile race from Stockholm to Oregrund. This race is not for the faint-hearted, with over 100 boats racing through the infamous Archipelago with its thousands of island and millions of rocks! Team Isis took the challenge in their stride finishing 8th.
The next race for Team Isis is in Sandbanks, Poole on the 12th & 13th September.
The Managing Director of Isis Office Hydration, Peter Bonham Christie is moving up from his success racing in the Zapcat series last season to the more challenging Thundercat series. Using the Tohatsu 50 hp engines, in this series the competitors are permitted to tune the engine and props for optimum performance. Thundercat Racing is a high octane series with events around our shores and internationally. They’ve been competing in the UK since 2003 over twisting inshore courses designed to make for some fast, close and pretty hairy racing televised on Thundercat Racing TV and other Channels.
Peter and co pilot Will Andreae-Jones, are very excited by this new challenge “The Bonham Christie family have a pedigree of powerboat racing dating back to my grandfather John in the 50’s. My father Richard founded the Cancer Charity race in 1974, run by The Royal Motor Yacht Club in Poole. I have mostly raced yachts campaigning here and abroad, now it seems I’ve been drawn in by the family tradition!’ says Peter Bonham Christie.
ISIS Office Hydration Ltd have depots in London and Dorset where they bottle Pure Dorset Water, at their own source in the chalk hills of Hardy Country, for their Bottled Water Coolers. More recently by using the latest technology ISIS are providing hot and cold mains fed filtered water systems to businesses across Greater London and the South.
ISIS together with the support of Rib Repair based near Lymington, and Propeller Solutions of Blandford, are determined to make their mark on the water this season with Team ISIS culminating with the gruelling 800 mile Trans- Agulhas Race down the east coast of South Africa .
Team Isis competing in the 2009 Thundercat series has been training hard and making good use of Poole Harbour’s flat waters. However the next race venue of Penmaurmawr near Conway in North Wales suggest some rough water traning may be needed.
The team is sponsored by Isis Office Hydration a water cooler company providing both Mains Filtered Systems and Bottled Water Coolers.
Team Isis is made up of Peter Bonham Christie a veteran Zapcat Racer and co-pilot Tilly Long. It will be Tilly longs first race as co-pilot “I’m excited as well as nervous we are a very light team which is great in flat water but makes for very hard work if it’s rough” explained Tilly.
Fingers were crossed for Team Isis on their debut race last weekend, not only was it Co-Pilot Tilly Long’s first ever race but, the team had recently taken on the skills of Jeff Purves at Ocean Racing to tune the engine.
Saturday brought strong winds and a nasty short chop making conditions hard on boat and crew.
After a long days racing the Team had notched up some very good finishes and 2nd place in the Final. “It was tough, really tough today. We have trained for rough weather but you always push yourself harder when you’re head to head with other boats, that’s when people make mistakes and things go wrong” commented Peter, Managing Director of Isis Office Hydration the teams primary sponsor.
Day Two started off in Penmaurmawr A and E with suspected fractured ribs from the previous days battering. Thankfully, bar some serious bruising, no bones broken! With the wind drop and a flatter sea this was going to be a make or break day. After starting from 5th on the grid Team Isis finished a respectable 3rd. They took 3rd on the grid to 1st in the next race and followed on with another 1st. In the fourth race the pilot, Peter, still slightly new to this boat, misjudged things and clipped a mark, resulting in disqualification. Now starting last on the grid, it was vital they regained a grid advantage to be in with a chance of a podium place in the final.
When asked how they managed to turn an unfortunate disqualification into a 3rd in the final grid position, Peter explained “Our engine was running perfectly, Jeff from Ocean Racing has done a great job and our prop from Propeller Solutions in Sturminster Marshall was giving us tons of grip so I felt confident to let the other teams fight for the first mark, whilst we carried our speed around the outside.
Finishing a confident 2nd in the final on the second day was enough to confirm to any doubters that
Team Isis have what it takes. “All eyes will be watching this ‘newbie’ team at our next meet. They have done fantastically well and I think there’s more to come” commented Fiona Pascoe of Thundercat Racing.
Team Isis compete next in Christchurch, Dorset on the 4th & 5th July.
