Wow what a day and a great turnout, 15 skippers on the start line, over to you Martyn .

Welcome to the Tim and Mick show!

That doesn’t really do justice to the day’s events, but these guys took first and second place in 5 races out of the 8 sailed, and both ended up with single figure scores. Pretty amazing performances. They did have to work for their glory though.

Martyn was OOD for the day (ably assisted by Greg), and he arrived ‘early’ to find that Roger had unlocked, put the welcome sign out and generally ‘prepped’. Thank you Roger! The buoys needed a bit of moving around and swapping over to suit the South shore racing and to replace some grotty buoys with some cleaned ones. Thank you to the Wednesday workers for nice clean buoys and useable jetties, plus everything else that is generally taken for granted by many of us.

We enjoyed a pretty perfect light wind and a day where the early chill disappeared. The course was shortened after a long first race and the start line adjusted slightly, but other than that it was back to back racing with a short coffee break to keep everyone happy ….. and it was excellent sailing! The standard of the starts was equivalent to the TT racing competitions and everyone here should be considering entering the event at Lincoln in March. Those folk who got away at the start often maintained those positions, but there were wind shifts to read and decisions to make and therefore opportunities, as is usual. There was a friendly business like air to the day with people accepting penalties and taking their punishments without complaint. The upper mid-fleet was extremely competitive with 6 skippers of the 15 sailing ending the day with points in the 30’s, but with Peter C 101 heading the bunch and a few reflecting on what could have been with perhaps one better race result (Colin H! 301 ).

The day was wrapped up at 1pm on the dot and thanks go to many skippers for helping with the tidy up and for giving assistance throughout the day to Martyn 877 in his first OOD duty at the club. It’s also worth mentioning that every race was willingly line-judged by a different volunteering skipper which sums up the friendly nature of the day. Thank you all!

Martyn Aspinall

11th Feb. 2024

Absolutely first class racing and so if you are reading this , maybe an ex dingy racer and are thinking of a new challenge come take a look at radio racing, after a couple of goes’ you may not want to let the transmitter go. Great friendly but very competitive club on the outskirts of Lincoln .