A great entry of 9 boats for race 5 of the club DF/RG65 Winter series, the wind started off as a mid A rig from Gautby Rd and all the RG’s sailed using swing rigs, Phil sailing his DF65 was allowed to use his A+ rig and rightly so.
We sailed 6 races before tea with Alan, sailing his rebuilt Ivy comfortably winning the first half. Alan’s boat was in an unfortunate accident (involving his car) a few weeks ago and should of been written off, but he managed to do some serious surgery to her and she was as good as new and performing extremely well.
Vernon was racing his new Ivy for only the third time and went home a very happy skipper, his best result coming 3rd in race 6, a few little tweaks on his rig and he will return for the RG TT race next month.
After race 7 the wind swung around and around and died off considerably, that much so that our PRO, Neil Westbrook decided we should shorten the course to one lap for the final 4 races.
Overall the fleet, made up of Ivy’s, Uno’s, one Electronica and one DF65, enjoyed a pleasant afternoons sailing with race wins going to Alan, Graham, Peter and Bill but there was only one winner, Alan sailed extremely well and gave us all a good hammering.
Thanks go to Neil Westbrook who started and finished us by himself for all 12 races.
- Alan Bennett Ivy 13pts
- Graham Elliott Electronica 19pts
- Bill Culshaw Ivy 30pts
- Peter Baldwin Uno 31pts
- Vernon Appleton Ivy 44pts
- Paul Plested Uno 55pts
- Dave Williams Uno 65pts
- Charles Legg Uno 72pts
Phyl Fanning DF65 10pts
