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Author: Peter Baldwin

DF65 Social Racing #25 (22/6/22)

Another sunny summers day with another light and variable Westerly breeze, which yet again filled in as the morning progressed. We sailed from the far bank – due to fishermen unwilling to move their location. Thanks to John “the Boot” Carlin for being RO once again.

With the wind filling in towards the end of the session again, this raises the question – should we sail DF65 in the afternoon instead of a morning session? Comments from members welcome to Club Captain Andrew Peter or Secretary Charles Legg – contact details on the Contacts page under Information or click here.

  1. Andrew Peter      919 14 Pts
  2. Andrew Potter     194 15 Pts
  3. Neil Westbrook      03 17 Pts
  4. Dave Williams        33 26 Pts
  5. Derek Matthews     57 28 Pts
  6. Charles Legg          21 29 Pts
  7. John Beech            80 37 Pts
  8. Malcolm Harvey  1019 49 Pts

IOM Summer 2022 #4 (18/6/22)

With a 10 degree swing in temperature from Friday it was time to put a second layer of clothing on for the 6 competitors today. The wind was from the top end of the lake straight down the middle and middle of top suit.
Unfortunately John Brierley had been partying with his family the night before to celebrate his Birthday and when he turned up and plugged in the winch did not respond so he stayed and helped out instead of sailing.
Peter Baldwin, sailing his new BritPOP! for the first time was quick out of the blocks and scored a Turkey of wins, strangely enough he also did this in races 8-10 to take his total to 6 wins on the day. Placings swapped about quickly on the water due to some nice shifts and the whole fleet was very compact in nearly all 12 races. Other race winners were Martin Roberts with 3 wins sailing his newly developed Vanilla design and Graham Elliott sailing a chartered Vickers V9 with 3 wins.
The results reflect how close the racing was today with only 9 points separating the top 4 boats.
  1. Peter Baldwin               63    Britpop !  18 pts 6 wins
  2. Martin Roberts             22    Vanilla     23 pts 3 wins
  3. Graham Elliott              66    V9             25 pts 3 wins
  4. Bill Culshaw                  121    Britpop!  27 pts
  5. Neil Westbrook             03    Widget     48 pts

Many thanks to Dave Williams for starting, finishing and scoring and Jack for making the tea.

 

DF65 Social Racing 2022 #24 (15/6/22)

Nine Sailors arrived to sunshine and a light airs. John Carlin did the honours again as OD, and Neil Westbrook got the waders on to recover and set marks, for a full lake course, with a variable but mostly westerly breeze, which settled and filled as the morning progressed. Ten races with a two lap finish. Welcome to new member Martin Whittingham Jones.

  1. Neil Westbrook                          03 13 pts
  2. Alan Watkinson                       373 16 pts
  3. James Douglas                            73 18 pts
  4. Andrew Peter                            919 28 pts
  5. Dave Williams                             33 34 pts
  6. Derek Matthews                         57 39 pts
  7. John Beech                                    80 56 pts
  8. Martin Whittingham Jones    54 62 pts ( 2 x 6 th )
  9. Malcolm Harvey                     1019 62 pts ( 1 x 6 th )

RG65 Popup Open and Summer Series #3

The Birkenhead club decided to run a ‘pop up’ RG65 Open Event with an 11am start on the Saturday of the Jubilee weekend and we managed to get 9 entries, 2 Pocket Rockets (Dave Creed), 6 Uno (Caccerelli/VAM) and 1 Argon (Sails etc/Bantock).
The wind was kinder to us than expected and came mainly down from Gautby Road with shifts and some quite heavy gusts that saw most of the fleet diving downwind at some point. Most opted for a slightly lower aspect rig but Martin, Bill and Graham all opted for there full height swing rigs. We also welcomed Bill Culshaw to the RG fleet this week with his borrowed Pocket Rocket from Peter. Lets hope he returns, but he did mention that he had completed 14000 steps during the day, although we don’t normally sail 18 races in an afternoon!
The racing was a lot closer than normal throughout the fleet and it was only in a few races that the leader broke away from the rest of the fleet to win by a large margin.
With the absence of Bernie, (we all send our best wishes to Bernie who had an op in the week), we decided that each skipper would drop out of 2 races to take up start and finishing duties and score these races with zero points after some discussion.
In the end it was Martin with a fantastic 9 wins that took top honours (and the winners bottle) with Graham in second place with just 2 wins and Peter completing the podium with 4 wins, John in 4th was the last race winner on the day with 3 wins, just 4 points separating the top three.
Pictures thanks to Bill Culshaw and Alan Watkinson.
This event was used as a tune-up for the next RG65 TT at Bournville on Saturday 11th June – Entry via the MYA website.

DF65 Social Racing 2022 #22 (1/6/22)

Only 6 sailors but with the A+ wind at times straight down the lake 10 races were held. With the few boats it was decided to do without a RO with the first over the finish line doing the marking. During the racing several boats were swapped to see if there were any glaring tuning errors.

  1. Neil Westbrook      9 pts 7 wins
  2. Dave Williams       19 pts 3 wins
  3. Richard Walker     27 pts
  4. Charles Legg          30 pts
  5. Graham Reeves     33 pts
  6. Malcolm Harvey   40 pts