What a great Saturday afternoon we had, 6 skippers, warm, wind, fire, nosediving, flat calm, rain, flares, yes we had it all.
It all started at rigging up before the race when Alan had a bit of mishap with his batteries, plenty of smoke and burnt out cables but miraculously after this the radio gear fired up with a new set of batteries and off we went to sail.
The wind was constant with large gusts so we all chose our ‘B’ rigs but this wind direction then decided to sort of turn around and come from the houses aswell as other places at times. The first 6 races before tea break belonged to Alan for sure.
Tea break and we all changed up to our bigger rigs as the wind dropped a little and the gusts did die down a little, we also came out to a nice Everton blue flare that someone had left lakeside, obviously testing the colour before the Liverpool celebrations on Monday. First race after tea and we all fell over on the downwind leg so back to the club and change down for the next 5 races. Graham did make a better effort in the second half but the day belonged to Alan for sure. A returning Gary Benson to the club and RG racing had a great afternoon and deserved his podium finish, George got caught out a few times with his rig choice but did manage a trio of third places in races 5 through to seven. A good battle all through the fleet was great to see.
Many thanks must go to Neil Westbrook for starting and finishing us all afternoon and Dave Williams for the photos. After 12 races the final results were as follows:- Alan Bennett 68 Ivy 12pts
- Graham Elliott 09 Electronica 16pts
- Gary Benson 68 Ivy 35pts
- Alan Watkinson 23 Uno 37pts
- George Bennett 71 Uno 45pts
- Dave Wiliiams 33 Uno 49
The lake was much clear of bags and weed after the Wednesday afternoon crew did a fantastic job of cleaning up ready for next Saturdays IOM open race, if you haven’t entered yet, why not?
