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DF65 Social Racing 2022 (23/11/22)

Wednesday November 23rd saw the sort of weather conditions that had even the best skippers despairing. We started with near flat calm, a start-line at the clubhouse end of the pond that was heavily biased to port and finished with an eighth race with a storming downwind start. On any single leg, the wind could come from dead astern to dead ahead within the space of a few metres. Between the marks, success seemed to depend on working out whence the wind was blowing and adjusting sails and course accordingly. In all, it was a most testing day. Mike De St. Paer rose above these conditions and came in a well deserved first with ten points, closely followed by James Douglas on 11.

  1. Mike De St Paer                 35         10pts       3 firsts
  2.  James Douglas                  53         11pts       3 firsts
  3. Alan Watkinson              373         17pts       2 firsts
  4. Clive Warren                       73        19pts
  5. Richard Walker                  39       22pts
  6. John Carlin                           11        32pts      1 first
  7.  Andrew Potter                 194       34pts
  8. Charles Legg                       21        36pts
  9. Sally Collings                   829       39pts
  10. Frans King                           95       44pts
  11. John Beech                          80       51pts
  12. Paul Little                            45       66pts

Results after 8 Races and 2 discards

DF65 and DF95 Social racing (16/11/22)

A good A+ wind from the Clubhouse end greeted the 15 keen sailors. Alan Watkinson volunteered to be RO and was able to keep the racing at a good pace managing to run 10 races. The wind although strong at times did ease off during the racing causing the usual problems of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Mike and John managed the conditions well taking most of the wins between themselves. Clive Warren, new to radio sailing took 3rd overall with a very consistent run of top 4 positions.

 

  1. John Carlin             15pts 5 wins
  2. Mike de St Paer     17pts 2 wins
  3. Clive Warren          34pts
  4. Richard Walker     36pts 1 win
  5. Dave Williams       39pts 1 win
  6. Simon Bates           44pts 1 win
  7. Derek Matthews   54pts
  8. Charles Legg           64pts
  9. Sally Collings         67pts
  10. Paul Little               69pts
  11. Don MacKinnon   70pts
  12. John Beech              80pts
  13. Stan Metcalf           81pts
  14. Malcolm Harvey   84pts
  15. Frans King              97pts

After a quick lunch break, 8 DF95s took to the water sailing the same course as the DF65s with a volunteer RO Paul Little, many thanks go to him on behalf of the “fleet”. Racing to the first mark was very evenly matched as it was only after the spreader that the leading boats managed to pull away. 5 races were held with the last race “three laps”!  Thanks go to John Beech for the photos of the DF95’s.

  1. John Brierley         5pts 3 wins
  2. Alan Watkinson  10pts 1 win
  3. Andrew Peter       15pts 1 win
  4. Richard Walker   16pts 2 x 2nds
  5. John Carlin            16pts 1 x 2nd
  6. Clive Warren         18pts
  7. Dave Williams      19pts
  8. Malcolm Harvey  31pts

DF65 Social Racing 2022 (9/11/22)

13 sailors started racing with a warm sun and the light wind from the top of the lake. Malcolm volunteered to be race officer and managed to give us ten races even with the patchy wind.  Downwind caused the most problems where the possibility of a good finish position was lost, running out of wind and just bobbing about whilst being overtaken by several boats!

John Carlin took the most wins being pushed hard by Mike, Alan and Dave who took the rest. Charles having now recovered from COVID make a welcome return and put in some good results. Many thanks again to Malcolm for being RO today.

  1. John Carlin            17pts 5wins
  2. Mike de St Paer    19pts 1 win
  3. Alan Watkinson   23pts. 2 wins
  4. Dave Williams      26pts 2 wins
  5. Derek Matthews  40pts
  6. Charles Legg         49pts
  7. Richard Walker    51pts
  8. Paul Little               57pts
  9. Sally Collings        58pts 1 x 3rd
  10. Don MacKinnon   58pts
  11. Clive Warren          62pts
  12. Frans King              77pts

DF65 Social Racing 2022

The wind today was not as strong as expected but ended up near the top of A suit range. Paul our RO set a full length course starting at the top end of the lake with the windward mark at the clubhouse, port to a spreader then downwind through the gate to the finish in its usual place.

A couple of general recalls and a few individual recalls were the result of sudden gusts just on the final few seconds of countdown. The first leg of the course was a challenge as to which tack to be on with no consistency of the wind, bunching at the windward mark caused a few problems with more to come on the run with severe broaching. Mike and John were able to handle the conditions to their advantage taking 7 wins between them with just 1 point between them at the end with a similar position between Richard and Derek.

Thanks again to Paul Little for volunteering to be RO and giving us 10 races.

  1. Mike de St Paer       12 pts 4 wins
  2. John Carlin                13 pts 3 wins
  3. Richard Walker       25 pts 1 win
  4. Derek Matthews     26 pts 2 wins
  5. Dave Williams         43 pts
  6. Frans King                48 pts
  7. Don MacKinnon     50 pts
  8. Malcolm Harvey     51 pts
  9. Clive Warren            54 pts

RG/DF65 Summer Series #10 (29/10/22)

As a follow on from last weeks RG65 TT, the final event in the Summer series for the RG65 and DF65 took place today on a course that was very similar to last Sunday.  Only 5 RG65’s and one Df65 turned out this week, with a few busy on other activities and Neil who very kindly acted as our RO for today.  The RG’s sailed a full sized course, with the lone DF65 sailing to the same windward marks at the clubhouse end and then using the outer start mark as a rounding mark instead of the gate used by the RG65’s

Race 1 started bang on time, with several different options and opinions on which rig to choose in the slightly gusty 6 to 10 knot breeze.  Was it a full size swing rig, low aspect swing or full size conventional?  Peter started well and took the win in the first three races in his full size conventional, with John undecided on low aspect swing or conventional before finally opting for the swing rig and winning race 4. Peter then took race 5 again before a short break.

After the break, John took the wins in Races 6, 7, 10 and 11 with Peter picking up races 8 and 9.  Racing however was very close most of the time throughout the fleet all afternoon.  It was often down to whether anyone was in just the right spot to get the lift or have wind when nobody else did.

Thanks go to Neil for running the racing and Bernie for making the brew at half time.  Next week is the start of the Winter Open series with IOM racing first and each week starting at 12:00.

  1. Peter Baldwin      63  Uno      13 pts (6 wins)
  2. John Brierley        84  Uno     13pts (5 wins)
  3. Alan Watkinson  23  Uno      25pts
  4. Bill Culshaw         23 Scurry  31pts
  5. Dave Williams     33 Uno        34pts

Our Lone DF65 was Clive Warren, who was well in the mix at the finish sailing on an A rig and a shorter course.

DF65 Social Racing 2022 – 26/10/22

Wind blowing over the houses normally seems to make for really shifty conditions, and today’s sailing didn’t disappoint.

Although the general direction was from the West, every leg of the course seemed to contain at least one beat, a reach, a run and a number of flat spots which everyone visited a number of times during the morning.

RO duties were shared out, with Dave kindly starting race 1, and although there were some concerns that the line might need altering it appeared to make no difference where anyone started in the gusty conditions.

Sally and Stan made a welcome reappearance after a summer break, and racing was very close with much place changing, boats changing tacks without changing direction, those in the lead being caught by the pack and a very tricky finish in the calm area on the houses side of the lake.

Mike ran out the winner after 10 races, with John and Alan tied on points but with 2nd going to Alan with more wins.

  1. Mike de St Paer              11 pts (5 wins)
  2. Alan Watkinson             15 pts (3 wins)
  3. John Carlin                       15 pts (1 win)
  4. Derek Mathews              21 pts
  5. Dave Williams                29 pts
  6. Richard Walker              35 pts
  7. Sally Collings                  36 pts (1 win)
  8. Stan Metcalf                    48 pts
  9. John Beech                       50 pts
  10. Frans King                       58 pts