Somebody mentioned champagne sailing , did not see much champagne but what I did see was some of the best racing and conditions that I have seen for a while ( well actually last week ) It really was fantastic but including our visitor Ben Harper and his wife on route to Scotland, but just popped in to race with us, we only had ten of our own skippers, well it certainly was not our loss, Micky boy Colin and Helped by Darin set up the race course with a view that the expected veer in the wind would kick in around ten am , it was shifty make no mistake but with two and a half beats you had the chance to make amends for earlier folly, 1st race up and Darin B 98 was on it , young Martin A 91 pulled a 2nd and Roger C 30 took third spot. race two and Rob W 97 took the bullet, Roger 2nd and Micky boy 3rd , Roger C was getting better each race with his little wing Wooden design and in race three took the bullet, Racing was tight throughout the fleet and it got particularly tricky when around 20 yards to the weather mark , and a large wind shadow ( these two buoys eventually moved 10 yards South By Darin ) Just before coffee break Darin took a first and then after coffee continued with two more, with Rob Wilson in hot pursuit the brit Pops putting on a show of superiority, Race seven saw Micky boy get away at the start and was not caught to take the win. Many faces missing from this round but credit to those who showed up, Martin was having some fine battles with Kevin who is handling his Venti better and better every week, Tracy just , and only just got the better by 1 point of the ladies challenge, Colin H 20 feels he could have done a little better and I am sure Ben Harper will be chatting to wife Olive all the way to Scotland about his visit to Scotland Farm,

Just one final mention Mick Cooper is suffering at the moment as most of you know, but today he turned up and raced, and in the first race went out wide saw a bit shift and went for it , he tacked onto port and put everybody to shame getting to the weather mark well ahead of the fleet, well done mate , just shows how good the Venti is when your on it , I realise as do others that you run out of steam during the morning , but that is to be expected , you will be back at it before you know it , and I am proud to call you my mate.

Thanks to all for the help thoroughly enjoyable day , Congratulations to Darin for the win , and everybody for the competition .

Results in the series so far Below