2nd. Neil Westbrook. 18 pts
3rd. Alan Watkinson. 21 pts
4th. Richard Walker. 30 pts
5th. Dave Williams. 33pts
6th. Colin Deakin. 36pts
Birkenhead Radio Sailing & Power Club
8 sailors turned up after a couple of weeks lay-off due to a frozen lake. Light winds meant A+. With Neil setting a long course a total of 8 races were sailed with a skipper dropping out to become starter and finisher, meant each person only sailed 7 races, so only one discard.
1st. John Brierley 6pts
2nd. Neil Westbrook 12pts
3rd. Alan Watkinson 18pts
4th. Colin Deakin 23 pts
5th. Richard Walker 24 pts. 2 x 2 nd
6th. Dave Williams 24 pts. 1 x 2nd
7th. Sally Collings 33pts
8th. Bob Davies 39 pts
Last weekend Birkenhead club members were competing at opposite ends of the country with the Marblehead ranking race in Poole and the DF TT series in Southport. The Poole event was the start of the qualifying for the World Championship in 2020 at West Kirby, and two members Bill Culshaw and Dave Potter made the long journey south. Bill had an excellent day finishing 6th including a race win and a 2nd and Dave’s new Starkers showed potential with a 2nd in one of the races. At Southport the DF club members of Alan Watkinson, Andrew Peters, Peter Baldwin and John Brierley arrived to find the lake frozen but after a delay of one hour the 35 competitors managed a good days sailing in A+ rig conditions. At the end of day one, John benefited from winning the last race to finish 3rd, with Peter in 7th and Alan and Andrew getting to grips with the A+ rigs as the day progressed.
The lake is frozen. Week 5 will now take place on Saturday 9th February. 1pm start.
A welcome fleet of 15 boats for round 4 Of this years Birkenhead IOM winter series greeted our PRO Bernie McNulty under cold grey skies. A rigs were unanimously chosen with a light 3-8 knot SE wind blowing mostly straight down the course from the clubhouse end.
1st Brad Gibson 9pts
2nd Bill Culshaw 23pts
3rd John Brierley 30pts
4th Martin Roberts 31pts
5th Dave Potter 41ots
6th Lawrence Drennan 52pts
7th Neil Westbrook 59pts
8th Alan Watkinson 66pts
9th Andrew Peter 75pts
10th Gary Benson 84pts
11th Howard Garner 86pts
12th John Berry 94pts
13th Michael Benson 103pts
14th Phillip Davies 119pts
15th Millie Elliot 120pts