Not a lot of wind but enough for the six skippers who showed up , Peter Cogill was up early and had it all sorted with the help of Jen H and after a few hands coming together to help Adrian C who had a few problems namely a rudder servo , and we were soon racing on the East bank , All took a turn at watching the line and the first race was won by Jen H 69 in fine fashion, Adrian with his new rudder servo ( many thanks Richard ) took second spot and Richard third, Martyn took race two in the light and sometimes fluky conditions , Mick C suffered a knot failure, on his sheeting line that was easily repaired after raiding Jen’s toolbox. The weather was fantastic and enough breeze to keep these little wonders moving. As you can see from the results it was close racing with one or two green Carp trying to spoil the party. 7 races completed , with the wins being shared out , Jen the worthy winner by a tidy margin, so very well done , many thanks also to everybody who mucked in and made the morning a very pleasurable experience. One or two away this week so could well be back to full strength for round five next month .

Forecast was probably not the most appetising, and may have influenced the turnout, Ten skippers,, and Darin the OOD was at the lake early setting out the course and getting it organised and it was only just gone 8 am, several skippers were there early, and all were going to be rewarded with some great racing in almost perfect conditions. The breeze 60/70 % of top rig sometimes less, and sometimes more ,and straight down the East bank, was to give us some great races in a very competitive fleet, As usual and fast out of the blocks with his Brit Pop was Darin B 98 taking the first win from Roger C 30 in second and Mick C 46 in third, 5 different designs were on show, including the very quick design of Roger C 30 who continues to impress. Almost three full beats and two long runs, gave everybody a chance to get back, if they fell behind, the racing was close right through the fleet, Race two was Mick C 46 who seemed quite pleased with the way the Venti was going after a change in the settings to various aspects of the boat, he was followed home by Tim H 44 with his V10 , and third spot was Roger C 30 keeping a good ave going, A different winner for race three Pete W 65 , with Roger getting a 2nd , Tim taking 3rd ,,, Mick C 46 was in a great position in race three but was adjudged to have not finished correctly and had to retire , no points there then !!!!. Next race race 4 there was a tie up of three boats on the start line ( the two Micks and Darin ) and again Pete W 65 took full advantage to take the win , Tim H 44 in second and Martyn A 91 coming through to get 3rd, Coffee break came and went and still we had had no rain just beautiful sunshine, Not quite sure why but Darin B 98 was not having it all his own way, which is a very rare occurrence, Pete W also was not on top form despite winning three of the races. This was racing at its best , well it was for some, and at the end it would have been to tight to call out the winner, But Mick C ‘s Venti did appear to be going very well and so it turned out, He took the win on the day by a clear margin, Martyn A 91 finally getting to grips with his Brit Pop and taking second spot , with Pete W 65 on the podium , there will be one or two a little disappointed with the result, But I am afraid the grin was wall to wall on Micky Boys face when he saw the results , carefully worked out by Colin Helliwell who fastidiously does the results for us each week, Next weekend poss 8 Lincoln skippers will make the trek up to Fleetwood for the I.O.M ranking race, and with 60 skippers entered , and many champions of differing classes this will be a great event.

So many thanks for all those who helped out and of course well done Micky boy.

Write up done for Darin by Mick , probably not the words he would use but hey ho .

Results in the series so far below

A windless morning that caused a bit of frustration for the OOD and skippers, the wind direction was unable to make its mind up for more than two minutes at a time and the strength, well there was no strength, hence only 6 races. but in any case 7 skippers showed up on this otherwise warm sunny day and had some decent racing, which is what it is all about, Micky boy got off to a good start winning the first with Dave R 180 not too far behind and Jen H 69 taking third spot, Dave took the next with Martyn in second spot, both overtaking Micky boy with 10 yards to go to the line when micky boy hit a large green carp of which there were plenty today just basking on the surface and Micky boy just stopped dead in the water. As I said we started with 7 skippers but before we started Mike W 76 realised he was not going to be able to continue and called it a day. Richard J 699 was not having the best of days and as he said himself he was making far to many mistakes, Sam P 59 got better as the morning wore on, but Martyn A 66 just pipped him on countback, but on the day Dave R 180 kept his cool and with a great series of races never being worse than second, took the day. The series seems to be suffering at the moment with lack of numbers but I am sure this will pick up soon. Many thanks to everybody who mucked in and got stuff put away, and for the manor it was sailed in perfect. Well done Dave .

Great turnout for this, round 6 of the series, 15 skippers rocked up for close on perfect conditions for some top quality racing, It was a quality fleet and some superb racing was on the cards, wind direction was not quite the best but the OOD’s gave it there best shot along with Darin who as usual was at the lake early getting the buoys sorted, great to see the two “Eastenders” Roger B and Stuart J ( from down Boston way ) in attendance .

Racing commenced on the South bank, and with a short dog leg it proved to be just perfect, Darin B was out of the blocks fast and took the first race from Mick C ,closely followed by Rob W, it was the first of four straight wins by Darin with Tim H and Rob W picking up the crumbs, in race two Pete W must have had some kind of disaster that I am afraid I did not see, same thing for Mick C in race three but this was a coming together, The Brit Pops looked, and were strong , Darin fresh back from his Nationals experience, a first in another class, and he looked sharp as a knife, The racing was as I said first class with battles fought throughout the fleet, Jen H and Chris G separated by a very small margin, as was Roger Crates and Martyn A . Kevin E was not having the best of days, and as others will ,they are sure to analyse the score board when they see the results . Race 5 and Darin seemed to have a problem which stopped him having a clean sweep , however he went on to win the three remaining races with Tim H doing much better in the last three races along with Pete W keeping Darin honest. Eight races on the day, quality races I may add, the rain held off and the breeze stayed firm, we started on A suit and finished on A suit , I am fairly confident everyone went home with a smile on their face , none broader than Darin who took the win by a country mile, 2nd 3rd and 4th only a single point separating them and 3rd and 4th on countback.

Hey till next time .

Micky Boy

Standings after round 6 below