DF65’s
A Northerly, or maybe N. Easterly breeze, for todays DF racing which made a welcome change. Various sailors arrived with the expectation of no sailing as it had been flat calm elsewhere on the Wirral, but in the event the breeze held and very slowly got up to a reasonable A+ rig day.
Twelve skippers showed up today, including a welcome visitor from Gresford. Welcome to Gautby road John Pritchard, hope you enjoyed your racing. Various regulars were away, and John Carlin stayed briefly to discuss some parts for a starting system but had to leave before sailing.
The usual course was used, with a line which favoured the starboard end, and was also conveniently far away from the RO to make spotting OCS easy. The initial intention was for all to share the RO duties, but Dave Williams’ boat had some electrical gremlins which he was unable to fix pondside, so he very kindly ran all the races, leaving the fleet down to eleven racers.
Racing was once again very competitive, and the shifty conditions meant that no one could relax at any stage of the race. Mike dsp won 5 races during the morning’s sailing, but his total before discards was actually more than Jon Whitehead and Andrew Potter who sailed more consistently and also won two and three races respectively.
In the end Mike’s wins were just enough to run out the winner, followed closely by Jon and Andrew, with overall results shown below.
Many thanks again to Dave for ROing.
- Mike de St Paer 13pts 5 wins
- Jon Whitehead 16 pts 2 wins
- Andrew Potter 17 pts 3 wins
- Frans KIng 41 pts 1 x 2nd
- Clive Warren 41 pts
- Neil Westbrook 43 pts
- John Pritchard 53 pts
- Dave Howard 59 pts
- Richard Walker 60 pts
- Don McKinnon 63 pts
- Paul Little 66 pts