DF65’s
Almost flat calm at Gautby road on arrival today, with a few catspaws at the far end of the lake.
Alan used his years of competition experience to assess the conditions and immediately volunteered as RO – a very sound decision in your scribes view. Frans had hedged his bets by bringing a very impressive looking electric speedboat but decided to sail when the time came.
What breeze there was seemed to come from the clubhouse end, so it was agreed to start at the far end using a short slightly zig-zag course. This worked well, and the wind then turned to make it a running start, so the start was moved down to the clubhouse end only to have this work as a running start too. The wind then gradually filled in from a more North and West direction as the morning progressed making more sense of the course.
The running starts actually made for very close racing, with crowded arrivals at the first marks and there were plenty of opportunities to sail into areas of no wind and vice versa.
John C made the best of the conditions with four wins, followed by Clive with three and then Mike dsp with no wins but a string of OKish results but not quite enough speed. Final results as shown below with thanks again to Alan for running the racing and Dave for doing the results.
- John Carlin 10 pts 4 wins
- Clive Warren 12 pts 3 wins
- Mike de St Paer 13 pts
- Dave Williams 18 pts 1 win
- Neil Wesrbrook 22 pts
- Sally Collings 29 pts
- Frans King 36 pts
DF95’s
- Clive Warren 93 6pts 6wins
- Frans King 59 15pts
- John Beech 288 17pts 1 Win
- Martin Withington Jones 77 18pts