‘Another challenging mornings racing. Forecast was sort of right - we did require B rigs – but it was marginal to start with. The wind got up quite quickly, with horrible gusts – not so much very strong, but it…
I’m not sure whether JM wanted a more pessimistic or optimistic race report, so here goes. It was a miserable morning again (it was a lovely crisp sunny winter's morning) as 11 skippers arrived at a windless lake in despair…
What a day! What a wind! An early visit to the lake indicated "Top Rig" but twenty minutes later a few steps beyond the bridge convinced everyone to "about turn" and return for B and C suits. The first race started…
A better day today with a moderately good west/north westerly, gaining a little as the morning progressed. We tried a 7/8 start, 3, 2, A, blues finish, changing to A/D, 4, B, 5, 1, 3, 8, 5, blues finish. We…
We were very fortunate to have a mild day with a reasonably steady westerly wind for our last Sunday sail of the year. We initially set the same course as Friday but as the wind increased changed the leeward buoy…
Variable wind today, so started with a short course for the 12 skippers today. Start 5/A 3/2/5 twice round and finish the blues; started with 2 observers per race and hoped to get through 5 races but as always the…
1st Trevor 6 points 2nd Keith 9 points 3rd John M 12 points 4th John C 13 points 5th Tom 17 points 6th John Hor 19 points
‘The forecast was a bit more accurate this morning, and although early arrivers found a good A rig wind – it was definitely borderline by 10 o’clock. It was however, a very good session of racing, with both rigs having…
The 9 skippers had two shocks today: a more of less steady easterly of low to mid ‘S’ suit range, and (thanks to John M) all the fun of using buoys 2 and 3 as a gate! (Well for the…
1st John Howell 2nd John Male - with a little help from Tom and John C 3rd Dick Grainge 4th Trevor Innes - sorry Trevor for the damage to your boat 5th Max Lembke 6th Peter Popham - unlucky again…