After waiting for a couple of weeks while the lake has been frozen, an excellent turnout of twelve DF65 skippers arrived to a chilly and quite strong and gusty Westerly blowing more or less straight down the lake.
An initial whizz on a choppy lake confirmed that it would be a C rig day, and Peter Baldwin very nobly went for a prolonged paddle to restore the course marks to the right position after going walkabout in the recent ice.
Frans volunteered as RO as he didn’t have a C rig, and got the racing started with just 12 boats. Almost immediately the wind started to ease, and after two races it was agreed to go to A rig. Frans very kindly said he would continue as RO, and John Brierley had to call it a day due to a winch problem after two seconds in the first two races.
The wind then backed around 25deg, making the line very one sided, and although in theory this made it a port tack biased beat, the wind was so erratic and full of holes that it remained a really tricky day. Charles also had to retire after his boat went awol during race three.
Peter aced the day, with five wins out of six races, with everyone else having a very frustrating day where positions could and did change significantly at any stage of a race.
After six races everyone agreed that enough was enough with the fickle wind and the final race results as below:
- Peter Baldwin 5 pts 5 wins
- Mike de St Paer 16 pts 1 win
- Alan Watkinson 17 pts
- John Carlin 20 pts
- Clive Warren 21 pts
- Dave Williams 28 pts (2 x 4ths)
- Sally Collings 28 pts (1 x 4th)
- John Brierley 40 pts
- Paul Little 41 pts
- John Beech 44 pts
- Charles Legg 51 pts
There is another opportunity for DF65 racing this Saturday (27th) with our combined RG65/DF65 racing, but with results separated out for each class. First start is at 12:00
