Richard has been a member of the Guernsey Yacht Club for over 35 years and is well known as Chairman of Guernsey International Powerboat week during the 1980’s and 1990’s. Over 100 boats used to race in Guernsey each year with the pinnacle being 28 Class 1 boats racing for the World Offshore Powerboat Championship in 1988. He has served as the head of the RYA’s Powerboat racing division and was the head of the World governing body of Offshore Powerboating, the Union International Motonautique for many years. 

Richard’s company Wheeler Developments were instrumental in the building of the new meeting room and alfresco area.

The Ridout family owns a 53’ Sunseeker called "Redoutable" which is available for charter throughout the Channel Islands. Previous boats were a Sunseeker called "Bora Bora", a red Chris Craft called "Wined Up" with very loud dry exhausts and "Sundowner" a 38’ Aquastar.

Robert “Doddy” Dodsworth is well knows in local boating and a GYC member for over 30 years and worked for the Harbour Authorities before moving to Guernsey Sheet Metal. He served on the Lifeboat for a number of years and is now a volunteer engineer for the "Flying Christine III". 

Doddy is a Powerboat Safety officer and Officer of the Day (OOD) for the RYA and was part of the team (together with Clive Maides and Edward Fattorini) who won the RYA Boat handling competition at the Southampton Boat Show.

Doddy part owns a Sunseeker 43’ Tomahawk "Blue Thunder" with petrol engines. Previous boats included a good old 16 foot Fletcher, a Birchwood 22, a 21ft Coronet and a lovely 25ft Triana.

Colin is the computer man. He has produced a number of web sites for his company Digimap and this includes Marina Tide times, an AIS tracking system, and a site on all the marinas within reach of the Channel Islands. He has also produced the St Peter Port lifeboat web site. 

Colin was Chief of Computer systems and Chief timekeeper for the Union International Motonautique and overall Administrator for Class 1 for 14 years.

Previous boats include a 21’ Coronet called "Sovereign" and a Princess 266 called "JumpinJack". He currently has a Windy Grand Mistral 37 "Halcyon Breeze".

Robert has grown up with boats all his life. He was pictured rescuing people in Malvern in a small boat during the floods a number of years ago. He then went on to be the youngest ever driver to drive the Class 1 rigs around the world for the top powerboat teams including a number of years with the Victory Team from Dubai. 

Robert if often seen driving Redoutable and has become very proficient in his boat handling.

Robert owned a yellow Sunseeker Hawk 34 and now pilots the 53’ Sunseeker "Redoutable". He also sometimes pilots his brother James’ Sunseeker XS2000 which does 74 knots!