The forecast lived up to its promise and gave us all a wonderful days racing. We welcomed visitors from Huntingdon and Manor park and also a couple of chaps with there Dragon Force yachts from slightly nearer. First up was the I.O.M’s and 15 skippers came to the line, with Radio problems ruling out two competitors , thirteen boats raced two laps of a windward leeward course, The wind was a nice 70% top suit sail and the beats kept the skippers alert with many shifts that had to be taken advantage of, It looked as though Mick Chamberlain was going to be hard to beat as he won the first two races , with Martin Lambert Dave Gunson and Darin Ballington in hot Pursuit. Finally Darin found his form and took the next two races, with Mick C having gear failure in the fourth race and coming in a lowly tenth. Darin again took the honours in race Five, with the consistent Martin L sailing his Lintel coming second in the last three races, The last race Darin had a gear snitch at the final leeward mark which after leading the race allowed both |Martin and Mick to get in front , after a close battle Mick took the last race with Martin second and Darin Third. David G came a creditable fourth with Alan Newman in fifth position. One to watch out for is Bob Geary who came in 6th,  He has a new boat on order and I am sure you will see some good performances when it arrives. I am sure that a lot of skippers will take heart from some very close and competitive racing, Tracy Ballington did very well considering it was her first time out with the Gadget, and Our very own Jenny Hand having radio problems from the start, she has some work to do this week to ensure she is on the start line next week. I have not mentioned everybody but you all deserve a round of applause for your performances, and I am sure you can all see little area’s where you can make small improvements to your strategy and trim to get you up the leader board as the season progresses .

when we normally do the results we do not allow a discard , however I have used the M.Y.A H.M.S scoring system to be abler to show you all how you did on a race by race basis , This system allows a Discard for each 6 races sailed , I am trying to find out if we can use the H.M.S without the discard in place but until I do I have posted the results, SO BEAR IN MIND THEY ARE NOT CORRECT , If you want to know where you came add the points up in total .

Now that wire goes there , Hold on !!!! where does that one go *6″!+/*

  I will post a report on the Dragon Force and the results using the same format

MICK ADMIN

Hi everybody, what a week we have had with gales and rain and those of you who braved last Sunday ought to get a commendation, But wait a minute I have good news for you all, Today we shall be installing the Portaloo ready for the big open event next week , and after last Sunday I called the Met office and explained that most of us are not to keen on winds of that strength. he called me back in an hour and promised that he would make this Sunday a nice day turn off the rain and de-power the wind from about 9am till 3pm, I thanked him and hung up

Now you may all think I am fibbing , But trust me a little positive thinking goes a long way. We could have a record turnout on Sunday and if you’re not convinced about the weather, then you need to think about birthday cake, it is two members birthdays this weekend, and to help your tea and coffee go down there will be cake on offer so don’t miss it. The format for Sunday is 6 X I.O.M races. for the winter series which hangs in the balance followed by 3 DRAGON FORCE races. Now we need to get started at 10 am on the dot so please try to get to the lake as early as you can to get set up, when we finish the I.O.M races we will have a ten minute break and get straight on with the Dragons, I am looking also to have a record number of Dragons on the water, we have added another Dragon this week with Chaz getting one, and making 12 Dragons in total, most of you have had plenty of time to get your boats sorted. It looks like top suit weather , I look forward to seeing you all on Sunday .

Mick

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OK Sunday is Radio Marblehead day, and in the winter series so far Bob Geary is running away with it with his old Berlio design, Come on guys dust of your boats and get down to the lake and contest it, I can think of seven R.M’s in the club who could be contesting this Winter series. Sunday will be perfect, I checked the weather forecast and it brings sunshine yet again, and as for wind you may need some smaller sails but the boats will be at maximum speed .

The Fleet gets away from the start

Also just a reminder after racing the R.M’s we will be doing three Dragon Force races on a shorter course for the winter series in that class , we had seven out last week lets see who has been working hard this week and will have their boat on the water , remember we have twelve in the club and looking at the weather the wind is set to decrease as the morning goes on .

have fun on Sunday

Do not miss this Sunday

Hi everybody, we have had quite a bit of rain recently but lets look on the bright side, the lake has got another two foot of water in it and it can’t rain forever. We have been very lucky so far this winter and last Sunday was an exception, The Bright side is coming this Sunday see below, Looks like sunshine to me from 9am till 3pm, it will be a tad chilly so put your long john’s on, It’s an I.O.M meeting 15 knots from the south-west so it might just be B suit.  We are all looking forward to the Summer and one or two members are taking steps to upgrade to better boats (I.O.M )It will make the racing more competitive I am sure of that. Also over the next few weeks I shall be trying to bring a new design to the club, not sure if it will come off, but I am trying, I will keep you all up to speed on any developments.

If you have not seen already the series results are being posted as they happen, with Martin narrowly in front with the I.O.M class , we need to try to get more R.M’s on the water in two weeks time. Please remember to Bring your Dragon Force on Sunday as we shall have at least three of last weeks regatta races to try to catch up.  Keep your eye out for January’s “Video of the Month”

See you all on Sunday

Mick Admin