” Another fantastic day at the club.  A few drops of rain, but nothing to worry about.  Lots of pleasantly warm sunshine.  Wind pretty steady, at the top end of A rig, with a couple of races with overpowered boats. 

All the top dogs were either away at opens, or unwell, or on their hols,  so a small field of 6 skippers, who normally would be well down the fleet made hay.

Kevin “Mr Consistent” Evison got 3 wins, 4 seconds and a single 3rd after discards, and won the day.

Geoff Streeter got 4 wins, but no seconds, getting 4 3rds after discards, and came second.

Peter Hellen came 3rd, getting his first race win ever (Yay!), and pipping Colin Toll into 4th, who though he got 2 wins, had a more inconsistent set of results. 

Ed Whittaker and Tony Jackson were 5th and 6th.

So the moral of the story is – turn up and sail, because no-one this morning scored more than 6 in the Cumulative, making up at least 9 points on all the non-sailors, with the result that Kevin is now 3rd and Colin 7th in the cumulative!”

Another great morning at Lincoln , only 9 skippers, but weather was perfect for good racing on the East bank, Jen very quickly got the course sorted and Roger B taking over from Pete W had everything out ready for action by the time the skippers arrived, As you can see by the pictures the Banks are parched, and we could do with some rain, but at least it did not come during racing.

The day belonged to Mick C 46 I am afraid it seems he could do no wrong obviously had a good set up and for once his brain was in gear. But having said that the racing was very close and it seemed many incidents were avoided at a crowded weather mark, that was close to the bank so all could see clearly what was happening. It seemed to be an A suit day and most stuck with A , although one skipper stuck with B and was hoping the breeze would do as forecast and increase, but hey , it did increase but not quite enough, in race seven the wind was at its strongest and Mike W 76 was just 20 yards from the line and then unluckily fell into a small hole in the wind and got pipped on the line . The start was crucial and it suited Mick C 46 it was judging where to be on the line on Starboard and making sure you had the room to quickly flip onto Port and away , too close to the bank and no wind, too far down and you were struggling to leeward, The course was made a lot shorter than normal due to the far jetty being out of use, it worked very well as walking was at a minimum, and also you could sit on a bench and see both ends of the course easily if you wanted to. We managed to get in twelve races, and a good coffee break, and as I say the racing was superb with some close racing up and down the fleet ( well I would say that wouldn’t I )

Many thanks to all the helpers and ED W for doing the scoring

Hot as a chilli pepper, was how you may describe it today, But 10 skippers showed armed with different types of lotion and wide brimmed hats, It could have been 11 but Pete H 60 his winch packed up before racing started ,,, You will forgive me for saying it was fantastic racing but it was.

Roger B and Chris G set up a great course on the South bank, that was a lovely mixture of dried grass ( no rain for weeks ) and Canadian geese shit, which for the most part had dried out thank goodness, Still a few missing, from the regulars, 3 regulars went of to Manor Park to get some practice in for the upcoming DF 95 Nationals in two weeks time at Milton Keynes , Darin turned up with the family after having a pleasant day out round Newark. But on to the racing and 1st race bullet was Mick C 46 , At the top end of the beat it was quite fluky all morning and this was where you could go from hero to ( yes you guessed it ) in just a few seconds, Kevin E 02 was having a good time with his light airs flyer the Pikanto, and I am sure this boat in his hands will get better and better. It is certainly a bit of an art, sailing in light weather, and needs a fair bit of practice and sometimes quite a bit of luck, the racing was tight throughout the fleet and everybody had a battle on their hands, Mick C 46 seemed to just have the edge downwind with his top secret downwind setup, and Pete W 65 was very strong on upwind shifts, at the end of the morning it was a right royal battle with the two Venti’s with Pete W 65 just taking the top spot on countback. Rob W 97 took third spot and Dave R 57 got fourth spot.

A great mornings racing so thanks to everybody for making it all happen , and once again well done to Pete W 65 for the win

Gonna be a sun cream morning , and so it was, 9 skippers showed up to be greeted with a light Breeze from the North West ,,, mainly , Ed quickly set a course up on the South bank and we were ready to go, For some reason Pete W was not ready to go for race one and got sorted from race two. Roger B 448 won the first race in convincing style with Graham K 79 taking second spot , and Alan N 438 taking third, it was a good start line but made tricky because at the last minute or few seconds the wind would shift 20 degrees, so the ideal place to loiter was around the middle of the start line, Pete W now sorted and took the next bullet, closely followed by Mick C 46, and Alan N 438 keeping up his consistency with another third place, The next three races were Mick C 46 taking the bullets and looking unstoppable, when you have light winds the twist and set up are critical, as well as spotting any dark shadows on the water and getting there as quick as possible Kevin, Mike and Colin were sailing well and so was mick C 53 who has been missing for a few weeks, who indecently had to leave early due to family commitments. at the end of the Morning Pete W 678finished off with two Bullets and sealed the win, from Mick C 46 Proving yet again he is the man to beat at the farm in recent weeks, Sailing was done in great spirit with 9 races completed in the morning , Many thanks to all the helpers especially Roger B 448 who was there at the crack of dawn to get things ready for the race team,

Congratulations to Pete for the great win.

Missing a few skippers and I am sure they will be around for round five .