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…
Marblehead's Six skippers - sunny day - light wind - Tom replaced his rudder servo - good camaraderie - congratulations to John Howell
A bit head scratching before the briefing – it looked as though it would be difficult to set a course. But by 10 the wind had settled and a good course was possible: blues, 6 ,4, D, 6, 4,D, A/5…
A challenging wind today, swirling around with gusts and lulls as it came over the south west corner of the lake. And it was wet too! Nevertheless, a course was possible:– 6 - 7, 2, 3, gate, 1 – 2…
Five members started the 2019 - 2020 Marblehead season. The forecast was for strong westerly winds so all arrived at the lake with A rigs. The first race saw Tom lose his mast and Keith ending up beached near the…
A decentish breeze, not too hot or cold, not raining. 8 J class skippers got down to some serious racing today. With this wind the J boats are wildly unstable, and we must all remember to keep ‘well clear’ of…