Cracking day for Radio racers , sunshine, great breeze from West , just North of West to be fair , but it gave us a great beat and run course the full length of the South bank, OOD Darin and Tracy arrived early and got everything sorted, 12 skippers showed up and were rewarded with ten great races, plus a eleven minute coffee break. Straight out of the blocks with the first three Bullets was Darin B 98 which could well be his last race with this Britpop before it moves to its new home, Rob W 97 sailing his old B P was not far behind, so it certainly was Brit Pop city so far, a couple of skippers looked at the set up’s on other skippers boats at the start and after the first couple of races ,, and we hope it did make a little difference. Race three saw the tables turned with Rob and Darin , and with Micky boy trying his hardest to keep them both honest, ( not an easy task ) at least he was keeping his averages low in the Venti, Pete W 65 was not having the best of days especially after doing quite well in the ranking the week before, and we did see rulers and tapes, and info sheets being looked at during Coffee break to try and address whatever the problem was. Roger C 30 with his K2 was having a decent day and won race 5 by getting clear away at the start and keeping his cool, Mick C 46 did the same in Race 6 and was well pleased with his win, Mick Cooper 39 was not on it today, and was blaming the battery Velcro for his dire performance, but to be fair he did suffer a broken shroud, and one or two other problems, so a bit of a wash out day for him, Colin H 54 cant wait to get his boat swapped , a few more weeks yet Colin , and I am sure we will see some better performances from you.

Martin A 60 is imminently looking at a newish boat for himself and we hope to have some news this week on that score , Kevin E 20 also awaiting a hot machine any week soon, he just lost to Mike W 76 on countback with Mike gaining 3 x 7th places , Tracy knows she can do better but was explaining to me ,that she has had immense amounts of work and traveling this past week and also helping her daughter, who is doing a dissertation, ( hope I have spelt that right ) has just taken a bit to much out of her, chin up Tracey , all in all a great day of racing at the club, but we were once again treated to a masterclass from DB , so well done to him . Just when we thought we were getting closer, hey ho . Many thanks also to everybody who helped get the kit away, I am sure most of you noticed how high the level of water is at the moment, The wins were all taken up by the first four skippers Darin getting 7 of them .