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DF65 and DF95 Social racing (16/11/22)

A good A+ wind from the Clubhouse end greeted the 15 keen sailors. Alan Watkinson volunteered to be RO and was able to keep the racing at a good pace managing to run 10 races. The wind although strong at times did ease off during the racing causing the usual problems of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Mike and John managed the conditions well taking most of the wins between themselves. Clive Warren, new to radio sailing took 3rd overall with a very consistent run of top 4 positions.

 

  1. John Carlin             15pts 5 wins
  2. Mike de St Paer     17pts 2 wins
  3. Clive Warren          34pts
  4. Richard Walker     36pts 1 win
  5. Dave Williams       39pts 1 win
  6. Simon Bates           44pts 1 win
  7. Derek Matthews   54pts
  8. Charles Legg           64pts
  9. Sally Collings         67pts
  10. Paul Little               69pts
  11. Don MacKinnon   70pts
  12. John Beech              80pts
  13. Stan Metcalf           81pts
  14. Malcolm Harvey   84pts
  15. Frans King              97pts

After a quick lunch break, 8 DF95s took to the water sailing the same course as the DF65s with a volunteer RO Paul Little, many thanks go to him on behalf of the “fleet”. Racing to the first mark was very evenly matched as it was only after the spreader that the leading boats managed to pull away. 5 races were held with the last race “three laps”!  Thanks go to John Beech for the photos of the DF95’s.

  1. John Brierley         5pts 3 wins
  2. Alan Watkinson  10pts 1 win
  3. Andrew Peter       15pts 1 win
  4. Richard Walker   16pts 2 x 2nds
  5. John Carlin            16pts 1 x 2nd
  6. Clive Warren         18pts
  7. Dave Williams      19pts
  8. Malcolm Harvey  31pts

DF65 Social Racing 2022 (9/11/22)

13 sailors started racing with a warm sun and the light wind from the top of the lake. Malcolm volunteered to be race officer and managed to give us ten races even with the patchy wind.  Downwind caused the most problems where the possibility of a good finish position was lost, running out of wind and just bobbing about whilst being overtaken by several boats!

John Carlin took the most wins being pushed hard by Mike, Alan and Dave who took the rest. Charles having now recovered from COVID make a welcome return and put in some good results. Many thanks again to Malcolm for being RO today.

  1. John Carlin            17pts 5wins
  2. Mike de St Paer    19pts 1 win
  3. Alan Watkinson   23pts. 2 wins
  4. Dave Williams      26pts 2 wins
  5. Derek Matthews  40pts
  6. Charles Legg         49pts
  7. Richard Walker    51pts
  8. Paul Little               57pts
  9. Sally Collings        58pts 1 x 3rd
  10. Don MacKinnon   58pts
  11. Clive Warren          62pts
  12. Frans King              77pts

IOM Winter Series 2022/3 #1

Seven sailors arrived on time for the first of the Winter series, but unfortunately Bill had battery troubles which delayed the start but even so our RO Dave Williams managed to run 12 races. With light winds from the clubhouse end six races were held before a welcome tea break thanks to Bernie in the galley.

During the first race after tea the wind freshened and turned 180 degrees with the start now from the clubhouse. Martin had boat troubles and switched to a Britpop, John Brierley had to leave early and passed control to John Carlin who managed some good results. Some very close finishes made the sailing interesting. A welcome return to the club from David Burke saw him soon back in the groove managing second overall. Thanks to Dave Williams for being our RO and Bernie for making the very welcome brews at “half=time”.

  1. Martin Roberts     Widget/Britpop!  27pts 4 wins
  2. David Burke            Britpop!                  31pts 1 win
  3. Alan Watkinson     Britpop!                  34pts 2 wins, 2 x 2seconds
  4. John Brierley/Carlin Britpop!             34pts 2 wins
  5. Alan Bennett           Viper                         36pts
  6. Bill Culshaw             Britpop!                  39pts 3 wins
  7. John Berry                Viper                         46pts

DF65 Social Racing 2022

The wind today was not as strong as expected but ended up near the top of A suit range. Paul our RO set a full length course starting at the top end of the lake with the windward mark at the clubhouse, port to a spreader then downwind through the gate to the finish in its usual place.

A couple of general recalls and a few individual recalls were the result of sudden gusts just on the final few seconds of countdown. The first leg of the course was a challenge as to which tack to be on with no consistency of the wind, bunching at the windward mark caused a few problems with more to come on the run with severe broaching. Mike and John were able to handle the conditions to their advantage taking 7 wins between them with just 1 point between them at the end with a similar position between Richard and Derek.

Thanks again to Paul Little for volunteering to be RO and giving us 10 races.

  1. Mike de St Paer       12 pts 4 wins
  2. John Carlin                13 pts 3 wins
  3. Richard Walker       25 pts 1 win
  4. Derek Matthews     26 pts 2 wins
  5. Dave Williams         43 pts
  6. Frans King                48 pts
  7. Don MacKinnon     50 pts
  8. Malcolm Harvey     51 pts
  9. Clive Warren            54 pts

End of the Summer Series for IOM and RG/DF65

We have now come to the end of the Summer Series of races for both the IOM and RG/DF65.  Some weeks there were insufficient participants for the racing to be run and so although there were 10 race days planned for each class, only 9 events were run for the IOM, 8 for the RG65 and only 4 for the DF65.  It would be good to have more DF65 participation on a Saturday in both the Summer and in the Winter (when a new series starts in a few weeks).  At the moment and with low turnouts, both fleets (RG65 and DF65) start together and sail a slightly different course and are then scored separately.  If numbers warrant it, then the DF65 could always start separately.

The final end of series positions have been determined and are available to view in the Current Standings Tab here.

Congratulations to the podium’s for each series as follows:

IOM

  1. Peter Baldwin sailing Lintel MMX & Britpop!
  2. Martin Roberts sailing a Vanilla 2
  3. Bill Culshaw sailing a Britpop

RG65

  1. John Brierley sailing an Uno
  2. Peter Baldwin sailing an Uno
  3. Graham Elliott sailing an Electronica & Argon (and counting a DNC)

DF65

  1. Andrew Peter
  2. Chuck Millican
  3. John Carlin

The Winter Series starts with IOM #1 on Saturday 12th November and then DF/RG65 #1 on Saturday 26th November, with missing weeks due to the ND IOM Championships & AGM on the 12th and our own AGM on the 19th.