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Race 1: IOM Summer Series – April 5th 2026.
With a gaggle of Lincoln boats competing at the Datchet Nationals we had a reduced fleet today of 8 happy skippers.
It was windy, so B rig was the call for the day. In fact by the last race at 1pm C rig may have been the best option, with many boats being over powered down wind and putting their rudders in the air!
As always, the orientation of Lincoln’s lake came into its own, with a 150m windward leeward course being set along the length of the west bank, parallel to it.
The good news was, the marks were never far away, the bad news was, there was an awful lot of walking involved (almost running at times today).
Congratulations go to Rob Wilson and his Brit Pop, our winner today, closely followed by Roger Crates and his Venti with equal points but a final race worse discard.
On occasions Sam Parker found very good speed as did Mike Holmes, Colin Helliwell and Kevin Evison with only 2 points separating the 3 of them.
It just goes to show, every place counts.
Although bringing up the rear, Ron and Mark both commented on how much fun they had had, and how much they had learnt by sailing in such strong conditions.
All in all, everybody enjoyed themselves which of course is why we go sailing.
See you all again, in two weeks
Pirates Midweek series for I.O.M’s
For a full report and results have a look HERE . Many thanks to Ron and Colin for doing the donkey work.
DF 95 Winter series round 8 and last round 29th March 2026
This being a five-weekend month we had the opportunity for an extra DF95 sailing day, your Race Officer for the day was Sam Parker who turned up at Scotland Farm to find Mike Holmes already setting up, many thanks for this help on a day where the duties were all voluntary. Having got all the equipment ready for the day a course was chosen on the roadside bank, this being a dead beat towards the clubhouse and a dead run back to the leeward mark, only one mark was needed to be moved to create a course (beat/run/beat). Even with the clock change eight competitors were down early and we got sailing on the dot at 10.00, with all competitors opting to start the day on the A rigs despite a forecast for the wind to get up, the first win of the day was taken by Martin A, this was a result he was to repeat three more times before a call for a coffee break was made after six quick races. By coffee time the wind was building, making control when sailing downwind and tacking a little difficult at times.
During the break half of the competitors chose to change down to B rigs with the remainder thinking that the A rig was still a viable option (ha ha ha), this proved not to be the case with Sam changing to B rig after race seven. Another victim of the wind increasing was Mick C who suffered winch trouble and had to retire for the day, this was disappointing as he was putting in some good solid results, the last two competitors to change down to the B rig were Martin and Jen. Races nine thorough to thirteen were now sailed with all competitors sailing on B rigs and at times tacking was still an issue as the gusts caused many head to wind issues. Sam soon got to grips with the B rig with four wins in a row and Colin also finding his feet was always at the forefront of the fleet. With thirteen brisk races completed a well-deserved win on the day went to Martin.
Finally, many thanks must go to everyone who sailed today, for the good-natured attitude in which the racing was carried out and to all the help from everyone who helped to pack away at the end of the day, making your Race Officers duty very enjoyable.
Sam P.
And we have a winner in this class for the Winter series it has been neck and neck but I am pleased to say the series has been won by Sam Parker , and so many congratulations to him, it has been an exciting series throughout and we now look forward to the Summer series.
DF 65 Last Round for Winter series, 22nd March 2026 .
Report From Ron and scores from Colin
Race Officer Adrian arrived at the lake just after sunrise and by the time 7 eager skippers lined up he had everything well organised…
A light Southerly allowed a course up and down the clubhouse bank and racing started promptly at 1000 with a 1 lap Race to assess conditions.
Micky Boy won that so it was decided to extend the course to 2 laps in attempt to spike his guns…
That didn’t work…. he carried on winning with a couple of 2nd places thrown in just to encourage the others…. he was able to leave after race 9 (lunch date) and still retain first place.
Martyn and Jen sailed consistently well to take 2nd and 3rd with Mike, Sam and Kevin chasing hard in the middle of the fleet.
Ron was consistently slow but with a couple of good results to prove that the problem is not the boat.
All in all a great morning’s fun in good company.
Thanks again to OOD Adrian.
Next week DF95s …..
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