Friday Sailing

Six skippers came to Welsh Harp to sail, but Dick came with the wrong transmitter, so had no working boat. Brian had control problems with his boat. There was some weed picked up during the races.

Eventually 10 members arrived at the lake and were met by pleasantly warm weather and a light variable wind blowing from the west. After two races, however, it was evident that the weed had not dispersed and indeed was worse…

A pleasantly warm sailing day with skippers discarding jackets and basking in the sun. The wind settled to a light north westerly allowing two circuits of a triangular course taking around ten minutes per race. With everyone on the water…

A goodish, if somewhat variable wind. Coldish but warming up later. Weedish - enough for many skippers to have a strand or two to scupper their race. Still, it’s the end of May so not too bad a season and…

11 skippers set their boats up on the bank in anticipation of a fine mornings racing: a good steady westerly ( although a trifle cold). A scheme of 1-off (2 for 1st race) seemed doable to give 10 races. Well…

At last…….. a decent wind (very nearly a B for a bit later on). At last…………………..wind from a different direction! At last…… a different course!!!!!! And at last – enough skippers to have observers! Same winner though! A slightly confused…

A sunny sky and a nice breeze welcomed nine club skippers and a visitor "Christopher" to the lake. It was a pleasure to see our dear colleague Hugh arriving a little later in the morning and joining in the racing.…

I know its still April (just), but we were spoilt by that warm spell only a few weeks ago. Transmitter muffs and gloves (and wishing we had put that extra layer on) were the order of the day. But the…

A chilly start (it did warm up a bit) with a not unreasonable north-easterly greeted 9 skippers this morning. After some ‘umming and ahhing’ a course of Blues, 6, 3, Inner Blue, 6, 3, Inner Blue, C/4 finish seemed to…