Friday Sailing

Well the horrendous blow forecast (see BBC weather image) didn’t quite  make it today. We were all looking forwards to a blast! In fact as the 9 skippers (in B’s and C’s) gathered on the bank, we were all thinking ‘***…

At last, a chance to write something different, although at 10.30 it didn’t appear so! But by about 10.50 there was still no wind and only about 4 skippers lakeside. But there was a large area of ice across about…

We do love our racing....... but not today! A rather uncertain wind was just about enough to have a series of ‘races’ for the 13 skippers, 6 of whom were John(and nearly 2 Tom’s, but TR abandoned before he started).…

It was good to have Tom Aldridge back on the water again today. Welcome back. Mind you, the conditions weren’t the best to come back to. A shifty sort of on-shore-ish wind started light and just got up to a…

Not the easiest of starts for the first Friday racing in 2019! A more or less on-shore wind made course setting difficult - see the scribblings on the observer sheet. And there was weed! However, enough wind meant we could…

What a blaster! The sensible skippers came with “C” suits (that is, theones who actually could find them in the attic somewhere) because it reallywas a “C” suit day. White caps, but not quite spume, made for somechallenging sailing for…

Not much wind, but a lot of cold! Skippers well wrapped up so hard to move arms or bend down. We managed 5 races in a faint whisper of a wind – blues, A, outer blue, inner blue , C,…

The benefits of waterproof (and mud proof) scoring sheeting on show today - great to be able to wipe away all the muck! Some skippers believed the forecast and came ready ‘B’ suited; some came down full of optimistic ‘A’…

It was a sunny day, with a good-to-brisk wind down the lake – with the last  race quite blustery. A good long course was set, with only a minor change after lunch. 7/8 start, 2,1 (becoming 3,2), white gate, round…