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…
Skippers arriving at the lake were greeted, for once, by clear skies and a good breeze. A good mornings racing was anticipated, with the prospect of a good long course proposed during briefing. Starter button pressed........ wind starts to die…
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…
16 skippers gathered on a gloomy, sometimes drizzly but near windless morning to ‘race’. A short course of one lap – blues, 7,5, inner blue, A/D finish gave a reasonable range of sailing, but success depended largely on the ‘luck…
This Marblehead open event is the penultimate event of the GAMES series and attracted 10 entries from 3 clubs. Upon arrival there appeared to be no wind at all and when a boat was launched it took what seemed like…
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…
A chilly day and a reminder that winter is coming. Time to hunt the thermal vest and thick jumper. An onshore wind made course setting tricky but a series of zigzags sufficed to give close and competitive sailing. Results attached.…