Sunday Sailing

Bury Lake at its best. Pretty much. Nice sunny day (brief shower) and warm enough to start removing some layers. A down the lake wind of lower end B strength. And 11 skippers. A 6/7 start, 2, 1, 7, 2,…

Well, that was some session of racing! An optimistic start with B rigs soon became carnage with C’s. In fact even before briefing John M had a mishap in the car park – damaging his on-boat-already C rig – no…

Despite the forecast, it was A suit to start (except Tom in B), but soon 4 of the rest changed down to B as well, leaving Phil on A. We all changed back again to A for race 6! It…

A good B rig wind with C gusts did get stronger, with full white caps and C conditions for what was thankfully the last race. 2 forestay breakages, some in-the-reed rescues and sundry other retirements made for challenging racing and…

The wind looked perfect on the lake – beyond the buoys that is. Inside the buoy ‘envelope’ almost completely flat. The wind did move round a little during the day but keeping offshore was worthwhile with a course of A/5,3,2,5,3,2,5,A/D…

At the start of the morning there was virtually no wind so, bearing in mind that we had to complete a minimum of 5 races, the course for the first race was: start between buoys A&B, finish between the blue…

9 skippers squelched their way to the lake this morning. 8 confident that it was a A rig, with one ‘forecast believer’ B rig. Well – for the first race it was top end A, followed by a borderline wind.…

Not quite as muddy, not quite as cold, not quite as sunny, not quite as windy, and not quite the same direction. Otherwise, business as usual for the 12 skippers down at the lake today. The wind was just southerly…

Another challenging RM day with a light variable southerly wind. We managed to complete just 6 races by using a mixture of short triangular courses in an effort to get at least one beat. We all wondered if the "Marbleheaders"…

Still muddy, still winter – but a bit of blue sky and the days are getting longer again. Shame about the weed though. 11 skippers had a mixed day – a couple of late arrivals; a reverse rudder on Phil’s…