Friday sailing Results 13th March 2020
Not as warm or sunny as promised by the BBC weather forecast but a good top suit breeze straight down the lake. With buoy 3 set well out from the bank it was decided to avoid the usual mayhem when…
Not as warm or sunny as promised by the BBC weather forecast but a good top suit breeze straight down the lake. With buoy 3 set well out from the bank it was decided to avoid the usual mayhem when…
Report by Richard Lord 13 boats entered for this prestigious event at 3 Rivers Radio Yachting Club, Bury Lake, Rickmansworth and were greeted by bright sunshine and a moderate 14 - 18 mph SW wind with occasional and brief stronger…
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,…
A nice change in the weather compared to the last few weeks. Sun (but not quite tee shirts and shirts yet), and a decentish A rig wind. Well, not the easiest wind to set a course, but OK for the…
Drip, squelch, flap. Flap, drip, squelch...... What an awful morning to be lakeside, with 8 skippers wishing they hadn’t bothered. And to cap it all, having decided that 4 races was enough to get a discard and go home, we…
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…
A robust session of sailing today. A good ‘B’ suit wind, more consistent than usual, except from the occasional vortices or holes which left boats flapping uselessly. While it was good to see our old friend buoy #1 back again…
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…
14 skippers had a mixed session – cold but warming up; light variable wind becoming quite gusty – but still variable. Direction – just westerly enough to give a goodish wind from about A outwards – close in was the…
A challenging mornings racing – fickle wind – both direction, and strength. But first of all, a big welcome back to Peter, in a big, purple and comfortable looking mpv and a small red and very practical little mobility scooter,…