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IOM Summer 2024 #7 – 21/9/24

Round 7 of the IOM Summer series presented thirteen skippers with a tough race track in light variable mainly Easterly winds.

Visiting us for the day were Shaun Priestley (Fleetwood) and Rob Wilson (Lincoln) looking to fine tune their setups for the upcoming World Championships in Australia, as well as Darin Ballington (Lincoln) and Simon Pope (Market Bosworth).

PRO Dave Williams ably asisted by Clive Warren got racing underway at 1pm with Brad setting the tone with 3 straight wins in the fickle winds. Alan Bennett, John Brierley, Rob Wilson and Martin Roberts were finding form with consistent top placings with John taking races 4 and 5 before a break for tea was called in the fading conditions.

After the break Alan and Martin continued good form with a string of top 3 placings including a win for each in races 8 and 9 respectively. Shaun steadily built through the day, as did Simon with strong placings, while both Darin and Andrea Roberts had rare days where good starts faded to scores that deserved better.

In all it was a challenging days sailing that favoured those that minimised their worst scores and held on to better ones.

After 11 races and 2 discards, Brad took the win from Martin who enjoyed a welcome return to form and John Brierley rounded the podium.

Again a big thank you to Dave and Clive for keeping the day rolling on our behalf.

Our next IOM club race is on the 12th of October and the Strebor Open on the 2nd of November. All are invited to enter on the website and join us for some of the countries toughest racing.

  1. Brad Gibson                42         Birkenhead              Post PUNK   11pts
  2. Martin Roberts          46         Birkenhead              Viper             31pts
  3. John Brierley              84         Birkenhead               Venti            33pts
  4. Alan Bennett             180         Etherow/Bhead      Britpop!      34pts
  5. Robert Wilson            97         Lincoln                       Britpop!      40pts
  6. Rob McIntosh             12         Birkenhead                K2                 53pts
  7. Shaun Priestley          87         Fleetwood                 Britpop!      59pts
  8. Peter Baldwin             63         Birkenhead               Britpop!      61pts
  9. Simon Pope                  19         Market Bosworth   Britpop!      65pts
  10. Andrea Roberts        127         Birkenhead               Britpop!       66pts
  11. Darin Ballington       98         Lincoln                       BritPOP!      68pts
  12. John Berry                    12         Etherow/Bhead       Viper            95pts
  13. George Bennett          17         Etherow/Bhead       TS2              103pts

Thanks go to Clive Warren for the photos.  There are a few more in the Event Flikr  Album here