Sunday Sailing

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…

Indeed the wind was a tad more southerly and slightly less than Friday. A good ‘A’ rig strength but still westerly enough to set a reasonable triangular course of 7/6, 3,2,6,3,2,6,blues. This was reduced to a smaller triangle as the…

The weather forecast was spot on for once - a fresh breeze from the west with some vicious gusts sending chairs and sail bags dancing along the shore and boats giving impressions of feeding geese with their bows nose down…

Oh no - not again! Clear sky, lovely wind during set up, nice course set at briefing.... begin countdown – wind starts to fade. But no, it wasn’t ‘again’. The wind remained good, if a little patchy – and indeed…

From Trevor’s pictures you wouldn’t think there was any wind at all. Well there certainly wasn’t much wind – but plenty of mist. So much so by race 3 it was beginning to obscure the outermost buoys. But the 9…

A steady NE wind was a nice change from Friday making course setting much easier. Start the "blues" then twice round the "7, 5, inshore blue" triangle and finish between C and 5. Again John H was in fine form…

Great to see Tony G at the lake looking fit and well and still showing us how to sail and win races. We welcomed a new member Graham to the club who has purchased IOM No. 180 previously owned by…