This coming August bank holiday weekend sees the some of the very best radio sailors from the uk and Europe descend on Scotland Farm for the International One Metre  National Championships. Registration and practice start at 1300 hrs on Friday, with racing starting at 10 am on Saturday Sunday Monday till 6pm and through to 4pm on Monday.

The Lincoln Club are proud to be hosting such a prestigious event and look forward to welcoming the 81 skippers who are entered. If you are free why not come down spend some time and see how the top radio sailors rig set up and race these fantastic yachts, feel free to chat and take photographs at your leisure, there is no entry fee and plenty of parking. The post code for your sat nav is LN6 9BP Don’t miss it excitement starts here.

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Round 7 of the i.o.m summer series saw light winds and nice sunshine as 11 competitors came to the line. The westerly breeze was light and very fluky, and at times almost non existent. Jen Hand started well but Dave Thomas quickly got into his stride sailing his Fraktal 2 and continued with a series of very consistent results, That saw him eventually win the event after ten races, Mick C dropped his brand new V9 in the water for the first time and using an old A rig and had some fun, Jen hand has now borrowed a book, that will almost undoubtedly improve her performances and help her obtain the consistency that we all crave. I am not at liberty to disclose the name of the book at this stage. All in all,  a great days racing in challenging conditions. On the day we also welcomed three visitors and a chap from Retford called Steve who seems very keen to get started in our fantastic sport, results below and well done to winner Dave Thomas.

I would also like add that a lot of work has been going on at the lake recently with the Nationals looming, and a lot of members have put in a good few hours on the work parties, We all need to be grateful to those members who have put in their time and have had to forgo there racing temporarily.

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A breezy day greeted 15 competitors to Scotland Farm for round six of the summer series , and with the wind forecast to veer and strengthen, racing was stated on the East bank. A top suit breeze from the south west with some nasty little gusts made for some great racing. We had two visitors Barry Raven and Sam Gill to make up the numbers and I am sure they both went home satisfied with there days racing. Neil Coleman and Barry Raven were of to good starts winning the first two races, but then the normal slow starter Dave Burke posted the first bullet in his 6 wins from 13 races, a consistent performance in anybody’s book Rob Wilson again showed signs of good form as did Neil Coleman. Alan Newman sailing an AB4 also seemed to be going well. After 5 races the massive veer came in and the wind direction changed and was coming from the North West, it had also increased in strength and this had skippers changing down to B suit, A new course was set on the South Bank where much work has been carried out with the opinion that it is a great improvement but still more work to do. Now although we started with 15 boats , we ended up with only 10 which was a shame because it was a fantastic day for sailing, sunshine a breeze in equal measures, good banter on the bank, made this a great day , results are posted below . Well done to Dave Burke who now leads the series.

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A windless day greeted the 14 competitors for the Martin Lambert Memorial Trophy. Martin is sadly missed at the lakeside but I am sure he was looking on and keeping an eye on things. We only managed to get five races in the light  and flukey conditions,  and finally called a halt to proceedings at around 2pm. Grainne Lambert came to the lake to present the winner with his plaque, and a very nice photo of Martin, taken last year was presented to Grainne on behalf of the club . A lot of light heated banter was to be heard on the bank as normal, despite the trying conditions. results are posted below with some pictures of the competitors . Many thanks to Jackie for giving up her time to do the scoring.

Winner Neil Coleman, with Jenny and Grainne

Dave Burke 2nd place

Bob Geary third place

The Motley mob !!!!