Friday Sailing

Well you might think it’s the end of covid – but for us its WIND – lovely wind. Not a lot, but who cares? Enough for 7 skippers to begin with some short 1 lappers, becoming short 2 lappers and…

No wind. No races. No winners. No pile-ups at the marks.  Indeed No sailing at all! Not, I hasten to add because there were no skippers – there were a few hopefuls who had a long chat over a long…

Another day of attrition – including a second sinking! 7 skippers hoped that A suits would be the right choice. Probably not in the end. The first race was a good mid/top end A suit blow from the west, giving…

Well that was a strange one. 7 skippers navigated a very muddy carpark, path and foreshore waving their A rigs at a blustery, westerly wind. Race one – Dick lost his trousers, no that’s not right – Dick lost his…

8 boats went a-racing…… 7  boats……6 boats….. 5 boats  4 boats  went a-racing….. Well that was an unusual day!  Most skippers started with B rigs (shuddering at the lulls and quiet areas)  some with A (shuddering at the howling blasts).…

The morning brought a westerly wind– that came and went a bit over the course of the 10 races – luckily only dying away completely after the last race had been completed. The course was variations on a theme of…

Well that was a challenging session. Despite the forecast, the wind at briefing time was a pleasant A rig westerly. Ah – a good morning of racing to come. Well I am sure it was for race 1 – by…

A full morning of 9 , 2 lap races made a welcome change to the vagaries of the last few weeks. An adequate westerlyish wind was reasonably steady but ‘unexciting’, but did give some close tactical racing. The resetting of…

‘Light but tricky – becoming heavier and still tricky…….. the wind that is. Unless you are called David! Besides, a challenging wind certainly prevents the sailing becoming boring, and who would want that? The usual westerly-ish wind gave us the…

13 skippers (yes 13 today) looking slightly nervously at a placid lake at briefing – ‘oh no, another drifter..!’ But the wind did come, slowly and gently and variably, but enough to get 9 decent races with proper beats. Racing…