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LMYC at Play
DF95 Summer Series Round 4 – 14 July 2024
With seven of the regular Lincoln skippers away at the IOM ranking event at fleetwood MYC it was no surprise that todays attendance was down. Five skippers were ready to go before the scheduled 10:00am start time and a sixth skipper arrived soon after.
The forecast light westerly breeze remained consistent throughout the mornings racing and fortunately the light rain did not materialise. Kevin E, the stand in race officer, had everything ready early and the marks set for a course on the south bank to suit the westerly 7/8 knot wind.
Five skippers started early on the understanding that the race would be deemed a practice if any skippers arrived later. This was the case, with a sixth skipper arriving later, but its worth noting that Colin H 301 took the win in the practice race.
Racing started proper at 10:00am, Mike W 76 sailing well to win the first two races closely followed by Kevin E 02 in both. By the third race Richard J 699 was just getting into form taking the win again closely followed by Kevin E 02. Pete C 110 also took two wins on the day and Colin H 301 took one (and the practice race).
A great mornings racing despite a large number of skippers away at ranking events. The racing was competitive and good natured with four of the six skippers taking wins, but the outstanding skipper of the day must go to Richard J 699, taking wins in five of the 10 races…..well done Richard.
Thanks to everyone for helping to put the kit away
I.O.M Summer series round 7 , 7th July 2024
Forecast was probably not the most appetising, and may have influenced the turnout, Ten skippers,, and Darin the OOD was at the lake early setting out the course and getting it organised and it was only just gone 8 am, several skippers were there early, and all were going to be rewarded with some great racing in almost perfect conditions. The breeze 60/70 % of top rig sometimes less, and sometimes more ,and straight down the East bank, was to give us some great races in a very competitive fleet, As usual and fast out of the blocks with his Brit Pop was Darin B 98 taking the first win from Roger C 30 in second and Mick C 46 in third, 5 different designs were on show, including the very quick design of Roger C 30 who continues to impress. Almost three full beats and two long runs, gave everybody a chance to get back, if they fell behind, the racing was close right through the fleet, Race two was Mick C 46 who seemed quite pleased with the way the Venti was going after a change in the settings to various aspects of the boat, he was followed home by Tim H 44 with his V10 , and third spot was Roger C 30 keeping a good ave going, A different winner for race three Pete W 65 , with Roger getting a 2nd , Tim taking 3rd ,,, Mick C 46 was in a great position in race three but was adjudged to have not finished correctly and had to retire , no points there then !!!!. Next race race 4 there was a tie up of three boats on the start line ( the two Micks and Darin ) and again Pete W 65 took full advantage to take the win , Tim H 44 in second and Martyn A 91 coming through to get 3rd, Coffee break came and went and still we had had no rain just beautiful sunshine, Not quite sure why but Darin B 98 was not having it all his own way, which is a very rare occurrence, Pete W also was not on top form despite winning three of the races. This was racing at its best , well it was for some, and at the end it would have been to tight to call out the winner, But Mick C ‘s Venti did appear to be going very well and so it turned out, He took the win on the day by a clear margin, Martyn A 91 finally getting to grips with his Brit Pop and taking second spot , with Pete W 65 on the podium , there will be one or two a little disappointed with the result, But I am afraid the grin was wall to wall on Micky Boys face when he saw the results , carefully worked out by Colin Helliwell who fastidiously does the results for us each week, Next weekend poss 8 Lincoln skippers will make the trek up to Fleetwood for the I.O.M ranking race, and with 60 skippers entered , and many champions of differing classes this will be a great event.
So many thanks for all those who helped out and of course well done Micky boy.
Write up done for Darin by Mick , probably not the words he would use but hey ho .
Results in the series so far below
Race report 30th June 2024 – DF Pursuit Racing Fun Day at Lincoln
Many thanks to Roger Crates for proposing a handicapped pursuit race for the 5th Sunday of the month. We did have a good time! Roger had kindly marked out a start board for us (see photo, ready for race 9). Jen and Martyn did a trial run of the concept at the Rotherham MYC racing held at Poolsbrook on the previous day. This went well and provided some experience of this type of race organisation.
The early birds to the lake got all the gear out and Jen arrived with Martyn to sort out the handicap board for the 8 skippers, decide a course and move a couple of buoys. As no more than 4 boats were intended to start simultaneously, a short start line was employed which was also used as a downwind gate. An upwind mark was selected to suit the predominantly North-West light to moderate wind, and a spreader mark added. This course was appropriate for all eight races although the wind moved up to twenty degrees to either side of North-West from time to time.
Handicaps were initially assigned on the basis of historical results (retrieved by Jen). These provided up to a forty second advantage to the early starters. The handicaps were adjusted on a race by race basis depending mainly on performance. This was true for everyone except Dave Burke, who joined us for the day as a visitor. Poor old Dave was used as the bench mark from whom everyone else got a start and he always started on scratch! Dave seemed to relish the challenge and was always at the pin end of the line in a timely manner and in hot pursuit, usually to great effect. Starting before scratch did seem to cause timing issues for most of the competitors and the assigned advantage was often squandered! The variable wind speed and direction also provided varying levels of advantage to the early starters. Nine races were run and six different skippers won races, which is indicative of the success of this racing concept.
Martyn won the day with 17 points, so he was clearly inadequately handicapped! 5 skippers (Dave, Colin, Alan, Sam and Jen) then followed with points in the range of 22 to 25. Richard and Colin took positions 7 and 8 and didn’t have their best days for results, but both still won races.
Thank you to Jen for doing the majority of the thinking and the prep for this day. Thanks again to Roger for introducing the concept. Thank you to Dave for being our bench mark, Colin for working the results out, and thank you to the participants in general for the great spirit in which the racing was performed and the final tidy-up which was diligently and speedily achieved. We are ready for a bigger turn-out next time, and hope Mike Williams is okay as he doesn’t miss many sailing days, but unexpectedly missed today.
Martyn Aspinall
1st July 2024
Lincoln Radio Sailing Club 