What a cracking day at Scotland farm , not a great turnout but quality was the name of the game. The wind blew strong from the south west giving a first class beat up the east bank , C suits were in favour and by the end of racing a D suit would not have been out of order. Chris E started well taking a chance on B suit it all looked bad until the final beat when the wind went light and Chris surged ahead to take the win, roles reversed in race two when the wind stayed strong for all 5 legs and Mick Chamberlain took the gun. Breakages then started to take there toll and Jen hand took the honours in race three. Mick Cooper first time out with his new TNT  had a few teethers as would be expected but got stronger as the morning wore on finishing the day with a third place, Phil H was also going well in the breeze posting some good results. PLEASE NOTE . The results have now been changed as there was some debate on Sunday evening about boats retiring or not retiring etc etc . Say no more . This has changed the results and the new results can be seen below. Well done to Chris and also well done to Jen hand.

Many thanks to Bob Geary and Mick Cooper for the OOD duties . Only one round left on the 9th April and it will be all to play for that’s for sure

Jen Hand at speed , she now has a new boat diff colour

Very light drifty conditions met the skippers with nice sunshine , I would like to say force one, but I would be lying, then the sun went in and it was quite cold, so starting with the I.O.M fleet,  Chris Elliott drifted a little quicker than the rest and had a clean sweep well done  Chris,

the Df 95 twosome also drifted around chatting most of the way and Mick C took 5 out of 6 races , we raced on the South Bank and many thanks must go to Alan Newman who came all the way from near Peterbourough to do the OOD job , Thanks also to Chris for keeping us warm with ginger cake at half time.

While the racing was a little slow , we had the chance to welcome another new member to the club brought along by Graham K , his name is Roger, and he is very keen to get started, I am sure we shall see a lot more of both of them this year as they can sort out a little car share from the Boston area .

Mick admin

Another fine day at Scotland farm, Very light non exsistant breeze gave the skippers the chance to chew the cudd and generally put the world to rights Nobody went home we just chatted, drunk tea, sipped coffee, and generally had a laugh. Around 11 am a decent force two came in from the south west and we sparang into action. The race team bless there hearts had been there since before 9 am and had got the board out and fetched the Dingy             ( just in case ). As it was they set a nice long beat up the East bank followed by a run and then a long beat to the finish.  8 skippers on a very short start line behaved and all in all it was good sailing. We managed to get in 5 races packed up had another cupa, put the stuff away and went home.

Many thanks to Keith our OOD and assistant Alan Edgar, also Hopalong Ed who is recovering from his foot operation but just wants to get down to the  lake, if he can scrounge a lift , Ed sat down and did the scoring for us Thanks guys. Results are below, and Kieth with an original set of sails took the day, Phil was a close second. Alan Newman came all the way from Bourne not sure how many miles that is !!!!!!!  shame some more local skippers could make it.

A bright sunny day with a light south westerly greeted the 22 skippers at Lincoln; Bacon butties were consumed in fine style cooked with meticulous precision and loving care by Jan Cooper and Jill Burke our resident chefese’s in the galley.  Briefing followed and a long course was set on the East Bank with a good long start line, as the fleet were good to go as a single fleet. Stephen Haywood started well with a fine win in his Cheinz, closely followed by John Tushingham in a borrowed V9 and then Chris Elliott with his Brit Pop. Race two and Darin Ballington clicked into top gear to take the win and the next  four races leaving all in his wake, John Tushingham just hanging on to stay in contention. Lunch was called after race eight and 2 choices of soup and lots of French bread were served up by the club and super chef Jan, it helped to take the chill off the mid December morning.

Darin Ballington obviously had a little too much soup or the wrong flavour because races nine and ten his performance took a bit of a dip, Craig Raistrick, new to the sport and new to the Lincoln club came in with two bullets’ sailing his MX 14. Racing all through the fleet was fast and furious, and because the windward mark was a little further out than we would have wanted , if you were not round in the first  five it could get a little congested and heated, and although there were a few shouts of “Protest” everybody was well behaved and completed the penalty turns if required “ almost “.

Looking through the fleet a number of skippers improved during the day, and the general feeling was a good days racing was had by all. Congratulations to our winner Darin, and runner up John , but in truth congratulations must go to all the skippers for the way they conducted themselves on the day, with 22 yachts on the start line it can’t have been easy.

Thanks to  all the helpers at Lincoln, Jan and Jill in the galley especially , Ivan and Gordon who manned the finish line, Phil H who helped out a lot and Alan who brought the French bread along, If I have forgotten anybody sorry, We all know the OOD who kept up the pace rather like a sergeant Major, and enabled us to get in a good number of races.

RESULTS

       Please note as this was also Lincoln Clubs i.o.m winter series round two, a seperate series of results will be posted later in the week .

A few pics of the day ,

The wonderful Jan who manned the galley for us all on Sunday

Turkey for Xmas ,,, well done Craig

Guess somebody was over at the start !!!!

All good fun on the bank .