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DF95 Summer Series – Round 1 – 12th April 2026
Thirteen skippers turned up on a bright and blustery morning for the opening round of the DF95 summer series- and what a cracking days racing it turned out to be. The moderate gusty south-westerly made life easy for the race team -Kevin E and Ron A- who set a course off the east bank.
A long beat towards the clubhouse in a single leg to a windward/spreader mark, followed by a downwind run to a leeward gate in the northeast corner of the lake, and then a second beat to the finish line between the windward and spreader marks. The blustery conditions saw all skippers opting for B rigs for the day. Great to see both Alan N (438) and Mike W (76) back out on the water
Racing got underway shortly after 10 am, with Rob W (97) taking the honours in the first race, closely followed by Mike H (22) in second. Wins in the next four races before the tea break were shared by Paul Kelly (19), Jen H (69), Mike H (22) and Martyn A (877) showing there was no single skipper dominating the results.
Plenty of cake was on offer at the tea break, with two skippers, Colin H and Kevin E both celebrating birthdays during the previous week. Colin H came out flying after the tea break, taking wins in races 6, 7 and 9. Mike H kept up his strong form with victories in races 8 and 11 while Kevin E claimed race 10.
Both Mick C (46) and Malcolm P (01) experienced boat or electrical problems but hopefully they will be resolved for the next round.
Seven different skippers secured race wins on the day, with the points reflecting just how close the competition was and how hard fought the battles were throughout the fleet.
Congratulations to Martyn A, winner on the day with 22 points (1 win and 5 seconds), closely followed by Mike H second on 26 points (3 wins and 1 second) and Paul K very close behind in third on 26 points (1 win and 2 seconds).
All in all, it was a great day’s racing- close competition and good sportsmanship throughout.
The race team is grateful to everyone who helped pack away the equipment.
Race 1: IOM Summer Series – April 5th 2026.
With a gaggle of Lincoln boats competing at the Datchet Nationals we had a reduced fleet today of 8 happy skippers.
It was windy, so B rig was the call for the day. In fact by the last race at 1pm C rig may have been the best option, with many boats being over powered down wind and putting their rudders in the air!
As always, the orientation of Lincoln’s lake came into its own, with a 150m windward leeward course being set along the length of the west bank, parallel to it.
The good news was, the marks were never far away, the bad news was, there was an awful lot of walking involved (almost running at times today).
Congratulations go to Rob Wilson and his Brit Pop, our winner today, closely followed by Roger Crates and his Venti with equal points but a final race worse discard.
On occasions Sam Parker found very good speed as did Mike Holmes, Colin Helliwell and Kevin Evison with only 2 points separating the 3 of them.
It just goes to show, every place counts.
Although bringing up the rear, Ron and Mark both commented on how much fun they had had, and how much they had learnt by sailing in such strong conditions.
All in all, everybody enjoyed themselves which of course is why we go sailing.
See you all again, in two weeks
IOM Summer Series round 9, 17 August 2025
Colin and Pete arrived first and sorted the courses and got the kit out. The light breeze was coming from the north but was forecast to go more to the east so a course was set on the East Bank, start close to the club and a beat midway up the bank in an effort to avoid the millpond conditions near the club entrance.
Nine skippers showed up including two from Huntington and racing got under way on time; however Adrian had an issue with his boat which could not be fixed, so 8 raced the morning.
As it was it became the Tim Hand day with him winning all but one of the 9 races completed. This being quite a feat with the very changeable conditions especially near the top mark.
Ben and Hayden Wallace from Huntingdon showed good pace with Hayden giving his dad a lesson or two.
Colin H nearly won one of the races from Tim but it appeared the pressure may have got to him, allowing a pass within the last 20 metres of the finish.
Racing was kept going with very few breaks and the courses were quite long allowing competitors the chance to get back over the 2.5beats.
A few calls as you would expect over rule infringement but all done in good humour.
Pics below from Andy many thanks .
DF95 Summer Series Round 5 – 13 July
Were met by challenging wind directions constantly swinging through 90 plus degrees, so to overcome this situation Adrian set up two courses A & B with three options for each windward leg, the other challenge was whether our eye sight could cope with the distance of the windward marks towards the level crossing. All starts were very clean and towards the end of the morning several boats were pushing the line as starts being pressed hard to gain lead position.
Some really close racing, just when you thought you new the outcome of the race suddenly a change in fortune saw several extremely close finishes , the results don’t do justice to the competitive nature of the sailing today.
Dave struggled with setting the boat up to get the most out of it but by the end of the day was sailing much closer to the rest of the fleet well done Dave, It was nice to see everyone enjoying their sailing consistency was definitely key today as shown by the results so close today well done to all .
Report by Adrian.
Here is the league table with two rounds to go:
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