Sunday Sailing

A mixed bag of scoring with a 3 way tie for 4,5,6. with 21 points each , JC had 1 win , Tom had 3x3 , peter 5th place 1st J H with 11 points 2nd Keith with 16 points…

Warm? No! Sunny? No! Wind? YES YES YES! That makes a change – a pretty steady north-easterly, low to mid A rig strength, wind gave 8 skippers a good session of racing. 1 / 2 start,6,3,1,6,3,1,6, finish A/B(then 5/A). Lots…

British Summer Time? Well yes – cold and damp! 11 skippers remembered the  time change and to bring warmies. It was, however, a not too bad, easterly wind. Bit variable, but enough to start with a long triangular course. This…

A good turnout for the RM on Sunday with 7 skippers. With the wind blowing onshore finding a start line was proving tricky but eventually we decided on an imaginary line from buoy 8 to the corner of the jetty.…

A bit of a mayhem morning. Is it ‘A’ (sometimes) or ‘B’ (sometimes) at setting up time? Some (foolishly) went for ‘A' - and quickly wished they hadn’t. Changed later on. Now . when we call out ‘John’, was that…

Pheweeeee! That was a windy one. Even the coffee cups had breaking waves on them! 6 skippers thought it was worth coming down to the lake: Brian didn’t have a C suit so didn’t even try sailing. Keith started race…

A great day’s sailing was had by the seven members who turned up at the lake, the wind was strong and straight down the lake. Keith Allen and John Carter turned up with A rigs the rest with B rigs.…

Lovely day at the lake, started with light wind but the wind grew stronger as the day went on. The first 5 races were A-5 start, 3,2,5 two laps finish 3-2. After lunch we changed to A-5 start, 3,2,6 finish…

Oh yes it is! Oh no it isn’t! I thought the pantomime season was over, but not for us it wasn’t. A second tranche of skippers arriving in the car park were merely putting on ‘A’ suits only to be…