A Nor Easter they said, they were right, but not the kinda Nor easter I have been used to. this one had very little breeze loads of Sunshine a bit of 78 year old birthday cake, (cheers Cooperman) , and a fantastic convivial atmosphere, 15 skippers showed up including one welcome visitor, I think his name was Martin, and my goodness has his racing improved since I last saw him. Still a few hotshots missing from the entry list, but hey the calendar is on the website. Peter C 110 and Colin H 301 got there bright and early and got the course sorted, great stuff , and the fickle breeze stayed roughly where it needed to be, we stated off with two and a half beats, but this took around 25 mins and so we reduced the course, Mick C 46 fresh from his Global exploits, took the first two bullets,from Mick Cooper 39 and Kevin E 02, fluky it was and the start line was your first obstacle , it was a little short and in this fluky wind you do not want to be called over early ( do you Greg C 64 !!!) however you needed to be right on the button and keep the boat moving should you wish to get to the weather mark in good shape, Race three Jen H 69 got it spot on and with Greg C 64 in hot pursuit, they were never caught, Sam P 159 taking up third spot, and he was to follow through with some very good results, throughout the morning.

Martyn A 877 took the next bullit, and Sam P 877 took races 5 and 6 pipping Mick C 46 on both occasions. There were some notable good performances and some skippers will take a lot of heart from seeing these results, I am doing this report in place of the OOD and I do hope you will not mind a little critique, ( your getting it anyway) I tuned a few boats before the start , so please try and picture this when you next set up, and try and get close to those settings, I noticed mainly on the beats , that skippers had got into great positions but then got a little excited and suddenly thought there boat would go really well head to wind !!!!!! hello it does not please do one tack of the other and when it light never sheet hard in, give the boat air to breath.

This morning was a great light airs day and I rewalise it can be frustrating , but stick at it and it can only get better.. Well done to the Micky boy for the win and it really was great to see some good performances throughout the fleet, many thanks to all who cleared away and packed up.

Great fleet out which could easily have been 18 to 20 boats ,

Great racing, as always at the Farm .

Round five was blessed with breeze and sunshine but for one reason and anther there were only 7 skippers soon to be 6.

Race officer Dave set a course on the east bank only to find on completion the wind had veered so another dog leg course was set as a back up. This was to be the story of the day wind shifting veering coming going making for very close racing with no position secure.

Mick C was fastest out of the block taking the first win, Dave took the second and Mick C the third. Chris G then found some speed and took the next 3. Mick C Dave R and Chris G took all the wins between them with an almighty battle for overall honours. Racing was close throughout the fleet with a lot of place changing in each race. We unfortunately lost Mike W very early on with a failed winch. Despite the winds best efforts to ruin the racing we prevailed using the dog leg course after coffee break again providing some very close entertaining racing.

Overall honours went to Mick C (Congratulations to him) with his win in the final race. Dave R had a disaster in the last race finding a hole in the wind on the final run and got swamped by the rest of the fleet allowing Chris G to take second Dave R ending third. Congratulations to the podium places and well done to all who had a great mornings racing in a very good sprit with friendly banter.

Thanks to everyone for helping pack away after racing and for sharing the line calls.

Mick C , Many thanks for the write up Dave , and yes it was a fab morning of racing , reminded me of the old days .

The I.O.M ranking at Lincoln was a weekend of two halves , Day one, very light and fluky making it a nightmare for Race officer Darin B , only three races were completed, the Sun more breeze around and many more races , Results for day one below and very well done to Tony Edwards , Rob Walsh , and Mark Rose for obtaining a podium position in very tricky conditions . Results for day two scroll down further ,

Day two did bring in the breeze and a much better day of racing, Results below and once again well done to Rob Walsh winner,, Martin Roberts , and Nigel Barrow, for attaining the Podium, and of course all skippers and helpers , who made the event happen . Hopefully more Pictures will follow on our Face Book page https://www.facebook.com/lincolnradiosailingclub/

Another fantastic day for racing, Perfect breeze for A + rigs straight down the lake , New Member Steve Ward showed some fine form as he only had an A rig at this time, certainly one to watch , and too add to the improver trophy. Richard J 699 continues to improve, and if not should be added to the improver list. Well done to Rob for the win , and many thank to all for helping out , Assistant OOD did not show, But Mick Cooper helped out .

Great day, enjoyed by all .