Lincoln Radio Sailing Club

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.

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 …..

Wow what a day at Lincoln, Firm breeze , straight down the lake, 18 skippers came to the start line, and I am pretty sure all went home smiling. At briefing it was always going to be a choice of A rig or with the strengthening breeze would you play it just a little safe and stick on the B rig, well have got to say it was a A rig stay and a few opted for this and they were right, 1st blood went to the visitor from Birkenhead, and in fact the top three all had A rigs including Rob Radbourne with his Proteus who took a third spot, The breeze had picked up considerably and not sure if we did one more race or not but very soon the A riggers were rushing for their sail boxes as this was now defiantly B rig conditions , boy oh boy what racing we were in for, brilliant course, 3 long beats with two good runs and a gate at the bottom, Races two and three were taken by Darin B 98 with his Brit Pop , Tim H 134 had a sniff in race two but it was not going to be his day, Rob W 97 was going well but with the strong breeze and waves was not going like he knows he can, Roger C 30 with his Venti improved as the day wore on and will be well happy. Paul M 52 from Fleetwood was going very well with his V12 and improves with every outing . Mick C had Winch problems which held him back in the first two races but them a miracle , and all was ok , not so Pete W 65 with a similar problem was forced to retire after race 9.

I just could not know where to begin with trying to tell you all how exciting this racing was, at time the wind gods came out and gave us all a test especially downwind and at times it was max for the B rig with wipe out a many and down in the gate area there were some decent sized waves to make it even more interesting, Darin B 98 was dominant but all thru the fleet local battles were being had, the visitor’s , not including Roger C ( as he is one of ours ) had a great day, as did everybody.

Just a quickie here there were an awful lot of ex Dingy racers out there today and all will say what a fantastic sport /hobby this radio racing is, and when you get days like this it is a fantastic advert for our sport, young or old Radio Racing is a challenge so come and join us.

Very well done to Darin for the win , and in fact we were all winners today, and to all for making it a great day, see you next time .

Coming up on Sunday the 15th at Lincoln ,is the last of our I.O.M pop up Winter meetings , we have already got a great entry, but we have room for one or two more . You need to get booked in via the MYA Website https://www.mya-uk.org.uk/events/#events/event-details/68ff69331c14d5031ab63cb8/

Hey that’s it .