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…
Report & Results – M&S District Marblehead Interclub & GAMES 3 – 2020
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…
Sunday Sailing Results 8th March 2020
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,…
Friday Sailing Results 6th March 2020
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…
Friday Sailing 28th Feb 2020
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…
Sunday Sailing Results 23rd Feb 2020
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…
Friday Sailing Results 21st Feb 2020
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…
Sunday Sailing Results 16th Feb 2020
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…
Friday Sailing Results 14th Feb 2020
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…
Friday Sailing 7th Feb 2020
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,…