A good afternoon?
- Wind Straight Down the Lake – Tick
- Sunshine – Tick (Some of the Time)
- Rain – Tick (Unfortunately the rest of the Time)
- Thunderstorms – Fortunately not!
A reduced roster of only seven sailors turned out for what was a decent afternoons sailing after checking out and clearing the pipework and weirs for the lake feeds (it was noted that there is a slow feed coming in when it rains).
It was a mid A Rig breeze with some occasional gusts to the top end of the rig, but also some light patches when the rain came through which necessitated the odd race or two being only one lap to keep race duration to a reasonable length. Fortunately some of the heaviest rain came whilst on our break, which was extended whilst we waited for the worst to pass over. The second session was the most pleasant with sunshine for most of the time.
The afternoon belonged to Peter with eight wins from the twelve races and nothing less than a second. We also had three other winners in John Carlin, Martin Whittingham-Jones and Clive Warren. John Carlin took overall second place with a consistent number of second and third places, whilst Alan lost oout to Clive on countback for fourth place, due to Clive’s win. John Beech had good boat speed and led a couple of races for a while, only losing out after getting the shifts wrong coming into the finish. Dave Williams struggled for boat speed for most of the day and then sadly had a brand new rudder servo fail after ten races, firmly rooting him in last place.
For ten races we self monitored the starts and had the leader record the finish, with Peter seemingly getting wriers cramp or something similar recording one boat twice and missing another one out completely in one race, so a bit of creative editing had to be undertaken!
- Peter Baldwin 172 12pts – 8 wins
- John Carlin 50 26pts – 1 win
- Clive Warren 93 31pts – 2 wins
- Alan Watkinson 23 31pts
- John Beech 288 46pts
- Martin Whittingham-Jones 77 54pts – 1 win
- Dave Williams 33 60pts
An updated set of images from Dave – several missed when checking emails yesterday.
