DF65’s
On a day when a good part of the country was sweltering in 30C+ temperatures, Gautby Road today served up a very pleasant sunny day with the temperature only reaching 24C at 14:00. This was probably due to the great 4 to 6mph breeze coming off the sea and blowing straight down the lake for the 6 (well 7 for a while) competitors who were out racing this morning.
Peter started off well and took Race 1, with Dave Williams close behind, although they seemed to have their own wind and pulled well clear of the chasing bunch, with Stuart eventually taking 3rd. Peter led once again in Race 2, but a wrong choice at the Leeward gate saw both Alan and Stuart nip through and give Alan the win after an uncharacteristic 6th in the first race.
Peter then polished off most of the other races until Race 8 when he picked up a sunken object on the start line. Finally extricating himself after about three minutes, he dutifully went back to ensure that it didn’t stay in the course area and had to be rescued by Steve Miller putting the waders on!
This gave Alan another win to add to a series of mostly second places and second overall. Having had a great start to the day, Stuart picked up 7 points from a DNC in Race 5 after a “snowball” knot required retying or perhaps even re-stringing and a 5th, allowing Commodore Dave to take 3rd overall. Charles had a few decent results, but unfortunately lacked the consistency to figure higher in the placings overall.
We were joined temporarily by John Brierley testing out new electrics after problems at the Nationals and to be fair he did win each race that he sailed, but our scorer didn’t add him to the score sheet with 6 missing races. Thanks to Dave for producing the final scores and taking a few photos for illustrating the report.
