Sunday Sailing

Another good day’s sailing with a moderate NE wind. 9 races were completed with all on giving 2 discards. Results are below.

Hot, hot, hot…. Shade, shade, shade…. NE winds, NW wind , NE…… but not a lot! Just about enough wind and will power to get through 7 races varying between blues starts AC finish and AC start and blues finish…

A too light and variable wind to give decent racing, although lots of different skippers managed firsts (and lasts and middles). Once again westerly-ish with (boring) A/C, 2,3,5, finish blues with a few ‘2 lappers’ Well done to Graham for…

Light winds and a heavy swell (from the ‘fun’ day ribs with tyres – although they did keep to the far side) meant lots of flapping sails and not much fun racing. But we did complete 7 ‘all on’ races…

Weed – yes its back at more than nuisance levels. 7 skippers ,though, bravely (!) managed 8 races without screaming too much in a slightly blustery north easterly. Blues, 6, 3, 2(1 for first couple of races), 3,2 (1), A/C…

Not so very different from Friday – lightish but variable westerish wind. Very hot ….But only 7 skippers and more weed! June_13_race_officer June_13_observer

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…