Typical Winters day , storm “Eowyn” had passed but more was promised. As we arrived it looked ok and we were all wrapped up warm, 7 skippers started , and Young Colin Toll came down to do his duty despite not having a boat ” Bless him” and Adrian had got the course sorted on the South bank, and we were good to go. Pete W 65 was on it from the start with Martyn 66 in hot pursuit, Mick 46 I believe was over at the start and then proceeded to go the wrong way round the second mark narrowly missing others and then to cap it all hit the weather mark not once, but a second time whilst doing his turns, seemed to have left his brain at home. Apparently Mick 46 found his brain it was in his pocket and he duly found it and went on a streak to win the next four races, funny thing the Brain . All skipper’s started on A + rig and apart from Adrian who changed down to a lower rig , the steady increase in breeze, we only had a rare bit of nose diving on the run and only really in the last two races, Richard needed to retire after race 5 , but the racing was all pretty close, Pete was having problems early on , but got it sorted by race 6 and was back in the hunt , Riggers Rigby 180 had some good consistent results and will be pleased, the battle between Martyn and Jen , who shared the car ride to the lake , was finally settled with Jen in charge ( it was her car ) Adrian 63 finally took the bullet in the last race with his B rigged boat, and to be fair the A + riggs struggled.

A great mornings racing I don’t think anyone was cold in fact I was like toast, Just a shame that more members ( we have 29 ) don’t come and join in in this class but hey ho it is there choice, and I have to say there loss.

Many congratulation to winner Mick who was sporting his 5 year old Icarex sails, made by Nigel at Cat Sails, In fact well done to all who turned up, your bank side manners were impeccable, and also thanks for helping put all the stuff away.