A fine sunny day greeted 16 competitors for the first round of the winter series for I.O.M , The only guy who didn’t turn up was the wind, Racing was started on the south bank after a two minute silence for remembrance day. The club welcomed two visitors Darin and Dave and race one drifted off the line heading for the weather mark , Darin showed his skill in light airs closely followed by Dave 30 and Graham 88, Tim sailing his Mums Robot 169 was showing some fine form early on getting a couple of third places, Tim only recently making the transition from Dingy s. After race three a coffee break was called and Mick C changed the course so we could sail from  the East bank with a half decent windward leeward course , two laps were required but at least the boats were moving, and the last couple of races there was more than just a faint zephyr to help the yachts along . Racing finished at a slightly later time at 1250 . Looking through the scores many of you will study where you actually went wrong as the points were very close all through the fleet. Congratulations to Darin , But three club members I think will be well pleased with there performance apart from Graham who got a second were Tim 169 Mick 131 and Bob 58 , Alan had a rudder failure in one race which just goes to prove you cannot afford anything to go wrong,in your series on a Sunday Morning result are below , but we look forward to the next round which is round 2 on the 30th November .

Darin’s winning Britpop for round 1

I am reposting the series result in order for you all to see well done Martin , It is the first of the Winter series this coming Sunday , Look forward to seeing you all .

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At 0900 hrs 8 of the competitors arrived at Scotland Farm in pouring rain and very little wind , However by 0950hrs 13 competitors were ready for the briefing the rain had stopped and and a steady southerly breeze had filled in to give us some very exciting races. New member Chris Corrin was trying out his Dragon force for the first time and had some teething problems with range on his Spectrum set-up eventually going back to the original kit that came with the boat. Bert Whitehead also sailing the Dragon for the almost first time sailed well and only finished two      points behind Alan Newman. Gordon Bennett’s new Dragon is white all over and he was well pleased with his performance. The winner in the end was Phil H with a string of fine results which must give him confidence for the future. Martin Lambert secured 2nd position and was the summer series winner by quite a large margin , which with his wins in the R.M and the I.O.M makes him the man to beat in the winter series , which by the way starts in earnest next Sunday the 9th November results are below , but before I leave you, I would like to express all our thanks to Seymour for sitting back and doing the scoring for us today , It does underline the spirit in the club where people are happy to give up a morning and do something other than sail at the club.

We tried a new starting sequence today , and many thanks to Mick H , it worked well and with the mk 2 version we should have a bit more volume/sound , we also did 9 races , we also had a fantastic day of sailing , so if you missed it check out the diary for the next event , what we did today for a couple of hours beats most things but then again that’s just my opinion. We now have 20 Dragons in the club,, so come on guy,s come and enjoy the fun .

and a few piccys of the days event.

SEYMOUR ON THE SCORING.

Phil’s victorious boat on the day .

Getting ready for the action

Nice looking Dragon .

Bob G ‘s boat all set up .

Martin’s meticulous attention to detail before going afloat to win the series .

Alan searching for more speed, ” in the boot ” lol

Norman wrapped up well .

Chaz keeping the boat under wraps from prying eyes .

Bert trying a new battery.

aha it was flat , but only on one side !!!!

New member Chris getting to grips with 489.

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