12 skippers rocked up to the farm for the last round of this great series , rain may have put a few off but in truth it was not that bad Roger C and Jen H were your officials and with a load of help from Darin we had a course set on the East bank.

Hot off the start line in the first race was Darin B 98 with his Pikanto followed by Mick C 46 and this was the form for the next 3 races before Tim H 44 got his act together. There were 4 Venti’s on the water this week and only two Brit Pop’s there were 7 different design’s including a V8, but hold on ,, this one was a wooden one , capably sailed and probably built by Roger C 30,, the second wooden design he has in his locker, and he tells me he has another in the making , But I have to say he sails extremely well managing to keep up and beat on occasions, much later designs and what you might call state of the art designs . Mick Cooper 39 had some great results a couple of third’s and a second in race 9 he will be very pleased with the result as he beat his arch rival ( Jen ) in the Brit Pop ok ok only on countback with three other boats , but they all count, Kevin E 34 is getting to grips with his new Venti and will only get better, Sam P 134 had a great day since he redistributed a bit of weight to get the bow out , and just managed to pip Mike W 76 , Colin H 20 will I am sure be a little disappointed, but needs to keep tweaking to get the best from the Pikanto , Richard J 12 what can I say , we altered the boom angle’s by a couple of mm and it did seem to make a difference. Stuart sailing his Lintel was hoping for a stronger breeze which did not materialise, Back up to the sharp end Darin as per usual showed his skill and did enough in the early races to keep the marauding Tim in check as his second half results were fantastic, and he really had the V 10 motoring with fours 1st and a third, very well done Darin for the win and I do believe the series.

Many thanks to all who helped out clearing away etc and also for the great racing Thanks also to Colin H for sorting out our scoring during the series and also to Alan Edgar for giving us a few pictures