Birkenhead Radio Sailing & Power Club
A decent top end No1 SSE wind from the clubhouse this week. David Potter had a good day in his first race in this Club IOM series now at week 9 winning 6 races sailing the new Dave Williams boat. Bill took 4 wins and Neil 2 (although that should have been three!).
After 12 races sailed
Six RG65 and three DF65 sailors turned out to sail this week, including two welcome DF65 visitors from Gresford. There was a good breeze down the lake from the WNW, leading to plenty of discussion about whether it was an A or B breeze for the RG65 (or perhaps an A or A- depending on your rig wardrobe). All of the DF65’s opted for an A rig to start with. John Brierley had a good start with a 1,2,1 in the first three races until Graham Elliott found his form and won the next four races until there was a break for lunch and a change of batteries for everyone. Andrew Peter had the best morning from the DF65 sailors with visitors Rob Andrew and David Bradley taking a few wins between them. Andrew gave some setup tips to both visitors and racing was very close between them later in the morning.
Having started with a good sailing breeze straight down the lake at the start of the day, it had changed to be well across the lake by the second session, giving a delay whilst the course was angled diagonally across the lake to provide the chance of a windward leg. Graham carried on his winning form from the morning, gaining six wins from the next 8 races sailed, narrowly missing out to Peter Baldwin in those two. Andrew also had the lions share of wins in the DF65 fleet during the afternoon.
Thanks go to Bernie for scoring during the day assisted by Neil after problems forced his early retirement.
The next RG65/DF65 racing day is on Saturday 31st August starting at 11am.
DF65
Just a reminder of the next few weeks racing (see the Calendar for full listing):
17th August RG65 & DF65 start time 11:00
24th August and 7th September, IOM start time 13:00
31st August RG65 & DF65 start time 11:00
After a short delay (and a hot drink) due to a heavy shower passing through, sailing got underway by 11:15 with the majority of the fleet opting to sail in A+ rigs. There were a few strong gusts that caused the boats with A+ rigs to nose dive, but most survived unscathed. The day was setting up to be a close battle between John and Peter, but John had to retire from racing during race 6, leaving Peter with a clutch of 4 wins and the overall win. Neil picked up 2 in his A rig, with Dave W, Alan and Andrew all getting single race wins. The final placings after 10 races were:
Thanks once again to Ernie and Sally for running the races and the scoring for the day.
With winds forecast to be in the mid teens and gusting strongly as the skippers arrived, everyone opted to sail in their A rig, only to find that for most of the morning, it was more like A+ wind. A heavy shower at the halfway point in racing led to a tea break whilst the weather cleared. Unfortunately the wind went with the weather and when racing re-started, there was a very light breeze, which fortunately increased after this enforced break.
John once again took the day with eight wins out of the ten sailed, with only Peter managing to take two from him, although some of the finishes were very close.
