The weather looked rather unpromising for todays racing, and in fact as everyone was rigging up there was a really heavy downpour. Frans and Neil arrived, but very sensibly decided that a coffee in front of a fire might be a better option and elected not to stay.
This led to a slightly ”Whitehall Farce” situation with various people running in and out of the door without much else very useful happening, but then the rain went through fairly quickly and A rig was agreed on as the wind had eased down, and this proved to be a good call – well done Clive – and racing got away a few minutes late.
There were marks in good positions for the usual course configuration with a good beat the full length of the lake, and it remained very shifty all morning with some big gains and losses to be made which made for good racing with four different winners over seven competitors and six races.
The other factor which affected the racing was small bits of vegetation catching boats as the council folks were doing some strimming and this all got blown into the lake. It couldn’t be seen from the bank and caught a few people out. Malcolm was also unlucky to miss a race having relaunched after a clubhouse rain break with the boat not fully switched on (we’ve all done that….) but it was retrieved undamaged from the far side.
With a couple of other brief spells in the clubhouse – including one for a really heavy hail squall – 6 races were completed and it was agreed to quit while we were ahead with the final results as shown below, with thanks to Malcolm for organising these.
