A beautiful warm summers day greeted nine keen skipper’s for the penultimate round of this exciting summer series, some skippers were obviously burnt out by last weeks National championship’s in Fleetwood, but not all . Mick C 46 and Greg C 21 were down early to get the bits and pieces out and sorted, setting it up on the predicted East bank. Good to see skippers picking up a rake before hand and especially to Roger C 30 who had done a fair bit of clearing the evening before, It certainly does pay dividends in the long run, Racing started on Time with skippers agreeing to take turns watching the start line, a very long 3 beats and two runs was the order of the day, and straight out of the blocks was Roger C 30 taking the first Bullet, in second place was young Martyn A 60 with an immaculate TS2 a very much older design from way back when, see photo below, Third was another older design, the Pikanto of Kevin E ,20. Just goes to show the older designs, can still cut it .

The breeze being very light and from the South was a little fluky but gave for some exciting races, Mick C 46 with his Venti, after a poor start in the first race slipped into the gear he had at the Nationals, and seemed to have great boat speed, but in race three was tested with the TS2 of Martyn taking the top spot, Dave R 57 was always there or there abouts, with some consistent results, Peter C 110 also sailed well and took the win in the last race, Chris V 85 was sailing the Mk 2 Widget for the first time in anger, and now he has the manual on tuning and setting I am sure you will see his results improve, Kevin E 20 started well and not quite sure why he faded, lets hope we can help him get the best from this boat before he takes charge of a new boat in a couple months time, Colin H 54 knows his problem and is just biding his time, Greg C 21 had a couple of great flourishes, lets hope this is a sigh of future improvement, because as we all know time on the water is paramount if we want to improve our racing .

The results are below Mick C 46 eight points from 8 races so can have no complaints .

Many thanks to all who helped get all the gear away and packed up early, I don’t think weed was mentioned and for those that were around for the 2015 Nationals that our club hosted , ” this is a very different Lake to sail on.

Well done Micky Boy