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Lake and Clubhouse Closed

The Council have closed off all access to the lake and Clubhouse and so all sailing and racing is cancelled for the time being.

Your committee will be in touch again when we have a potential date for re-opening.

All future club sailing events have been withdrawn for now.  The existing bookings will remain, but new bookings may not be added.  The RG65 TT Event is still live until we have confirmed that the lake will not be open at that time.

DF65 Social Racing 2021 #13 23/6/21

A fairly light Westerly breeze meant A plus rigs were chosen again. Malcolm Harvey did a grand job as Race officer today, setting a full length course over 8 races, with a 2 lap race to finish.

Light drizzle did dampen things down a bit, but cleared before the last race.  Matthew Stephenson missed some early races, due to heavy traffic on the drive up from Stoke, and Sally Collings did a Cinderella flit before the end of the days proceedings. Some very close racing today, as the points show – with some very promising form from newer members – keeping us all on our toes.

  1. Richard Robinson           01 – 9 pts
  2. Alan Watkinson             373 – 18 pts 2 x 1st
  3. Andrew Peter                  919 – 18 pts 1 x 1st
  4. Neil Westbrook                03 – 22 pts 1 x 1st
  5. John Carlin                         11 – 22 pts
  6. Simon Bates                     69 – 31 pts 1 x 1st
  7. James Douglas                73 – 31 pts
  8. Paul Little                          45 – 45 pts
  9. Richard Walker               39 – 49 pts
  10. Stan Metcalf                2146 – 58 pts
  11. Matthew Stephenson   28 – 65 pts
  12. Sally Collings                829 – 72 pts
  13. Paul Whalley                    53 – 74 pts

Just a reminder that Race Officer duties will be asked of participants on each Race Day – in numerical sail number order where possible. Please be prepared to sacrifice a day’s sailing every so often to perform RO duty.

IOM Summer Series #2 19/6/21

A fleet of 12 IOM’s were met by a solid top suit breeze down the middle from the clubhouse end. It was to be a day of nose diving, wind shifts and boy there were a lot them. Brad started the afternoon with 2 wins with Graham getting 2  seconds. Bills new tactical masterplan of sailing fast came to the fore with wins in race 3 and 4. Neil had his best with a second in race 4. Brad dominated  the races either side of the break with 5 wins from the 7 sailed. Graham got a deserved win in race 8 with Andrea finding her recent form with a win in race 10. Peter was to win the final race with Dave Hollom  showing good speed with a 2nd.
Although Brad was the clear winner, a discard score of 15 showed what a hard days sailing it was. Graham was my sailor of the day with 8 top 3 places sailing his Widget. Bill showed a much improved race series performance with 8 top 4’s.
A big thank you to Bernie who was working without his usual sidekick. Was it because of this he set a new PB in general recalls ? An early Fathers day visit from Vicky sorted that out.
  1.   Brad Gibson          62            britpop            16pts   7 wins
  2.   Graham Elliott     27            widget             28pts    1  win
  3.   Bill Culshaw          21             britpop           32pts    2 wins
  4.   Martin Roberts    22             A2                     39pts
  5.   Peter Balwin         63            Lintel MMX   40pts    1 win
  6.   Andrea Roberts  122            Vanilla             47pts    1 wins
  7.   Dave Hollom       186            Celestial Fix   65pts    (1 x 4th)
  8.   Neil Westbrook    03            widget              65pts
  9.   Tre Joinville           94           lintel                 77pts
  10.   Alan Watkinson    23           britpop             86pts
  11.   John Berry             123           Lintel MMX  105pts
  12.   Charles Legg          23           rubix                110pts

After 12 races

Next event in the IOM series, is on Saturday 3rd July.

DF65 Social Racing 2021 #12 16/6/21

A very variable light breeze, shifting 180 degrees from West to South made setting a course very difficult. A+ rigs were chosen. Thanks go to Paul Little, acting as Race Officer today.

We managed 8 races using ¾ of the lake and a single lap course, apart from race 8, when the breeze filled in to a steady Force 2-3 Westerly, allowing a good two lap race to finish the day.

  1. Richard Robinson    01   10 pts
  2. Neil Westbrook         03   19 pts
  3. Andrew Peter           919  20 pts
  4. Alan Watkinson      373  26 pts [ 2 x 1sts ]
  5. Andrew Potter         194  26 pts
  6. John Carlin                   11  37 pts
  7. Charles Legg               21  43 pts
  8. Simon Bates                69 53 pts
  9. Stan Metcalfe             46 58 pts
  10. Malcolm Harvey    1019 62 pts
  11. Richard Walker          39 74 pts Rtd [ 1 x 5th ]
  12. Graham Reeves        189 74 pts Rtd
  13. Paul Whalley               00 86 pts

Finally, may we remind all sailors that pre-registration via the online website entry form is still required, to enable Track & Trace, manage numbers, and allocate RO Duties.

DF65 Social Racing 2021 #11 9/6/21

A light A+ wind from over the houses greeted the twelve sailors today. Neil volunteered to don the waders and to move the start line so we could sail from the far side of the lake a finish mark was placed half way up by the bench which enabled Stan Metcalfe our RO for the day to observe the races. It was a struggle heading for the windward mark, sometimes close-hauled and then a reach and to add to this an underwater obstruction which if you were unlucky enough to hit, stopped the boat dead in the water. Overall seven different sailors managed at least one win with Mike taking the overall spot due to his consistency with nothing less than a fourth after discards. Many thanks again to Stan who kept the 10 races racing flowing.

  1. Mike de St Paer               20pts      2first
  2. Richard Robinson          23pts      2first
  3. James Douglas                28pts       2first
  4. John Carlin                       36pts        1first
  5. Dave Williams                 37pts        1first
  6. Neil Westbrook               39pts
  7. Don MacKinnon             44pts
  8. Dan Skinner                     52 pts
  9. Charles Legg                    58pts
  10. Sally Collings                    63 pts      1first
  11. Richard Walker                63pts
  12. Paul Little                           65pts       1first