COMING UP ON THE 12TH APRIL at SCOTLAND FARM 

To enter either use the Midland District Website  or email full details including sail number to Jenny Hand,       please copy and paste   clive@handfamily.plus.com     to email your entry in good time . Entries  will close on Thursday 16th April at 1800 hours,  to allow the host club some time .

The usual Scotland farm welcome will await you with Bacon Butties early on ( brown sauce optional),,            and tea & coffee till lunch time.   A good turnout is expected so get there early for the best parking.                 The lake is looking its best and this is a good opportunity to come and sail at the venue for the UK, I.O.M National Championships which will be held latter in the year at the end of August.

The recent Maltese Nationals

Graham Allen (mdsec) pointed out that the correct way to deal with ties is by the countback method.( see comments to post)  He also explained how to get the HMS scoring system to sort it all out. I have done this and a revised scoresheet is below.

The eagle eyed amongst you will also have noticed that I got the date wrong – it was the 29th on Sunday not the 27th.

The final round of this series broke the mould. We had wind! At least to begin with and it was heavily loaded with rain. Both wind and rain increased steadily up to around mid-day then both died away to nothing. Back to normal! Racing was very tight with, as the results show, 4 boats with the same score for 3rd place.

Summer Series starts on 26th April

Once again the weather wizard had worked out that we were running a DFRG race! By race start time 7 skippers were ready and the wind was trying to blow from the SE. After a frustrating race?? up and down the south bank a coffee break was called to recover. By about 11.00 the wind had decided to try to blow from the South and subsequently provided a reasonable mornings sailing up and down the East bank.