Category: dragonforce

Great turnout this week with 11 boats competing including one ex member borrowing Ernies’ boat and showing some good speed at times.

A wise decision was made to start in A rigs with a gusty wind down the lake from the clubhouse, but with some significant shifts keeping everyone on their toes, especially as the shifts sometimes lasted for less than a second and may tack you without warning! John was again this week the person to beat with 5 wins from the 10 races sailed and the other wins shared by 4 sailors.

1.   John Brierley                  11 pts
2.   Peter Baldwin                21 pts
3.   Andrew Peter                 25 pts
4.   Dave Williams               32 pts  (1x2nd)
5.   Alan Watkinson            32pts  (0x2nd)
6.   Neil Westbrook             35 pts
7.   Kris Morrow                   43 pts
8.   Derek Matthews           59 pts
9.   Colin Deakin                  63 pts
10.   Richard Walker             70 pts
11.   Chris  Weston                 87 pts

10 Races sailed

Another good turn out with 9 boats competing, light wind from top of lake making A+ the rig to use. John again this week was the person to beat and he was given a hard time but it was his consistency of always being in the top three that made him the deserved winner.

1.   John Brierley                  7 pts
2.   Alan Watkinson           14 pts  (2x1st)
3.   Neil Westbrook            14 pts  (1x1st)
4.   Dave Williams              15 pts
5.   Derek Matthews          23 pts
6.   Richard Walker             28 pts
7.   Colin Deakin                  29 pts
8.   Kearon Worthington  43 pts
9.   Chris  Weston                 53 pts

9 Races sailed

Sunny and warm, wind from the Clubhouse most of the time with big shifts. Top end of A+ with some boats occasionally losing control downwind.  We were joined by Powerboat Captain Keiren for his first sail and Chris, a friend of Richard giving a total of 10 boats. Only three sailors shared the wins this week after last weeks 4.  After a slightly shaky start Commodore John Brierley took 5 wins out of the last 6 races to end first well clear of the rest.

1.   John Brierley              11 pts
2.   Peter Baldwin            21 pts
3.   Neil Westbrook         23 pts
4.   Dave Williams            39 pts
5.   Alan  Watkinson         42 pts
6.   Richard Walker           56 pts
7.   Colin Deakin                 57 pts
8.   Derek Matthews          63 pts
9.   Chris  Weston                67 pts
10.   Kearon Worthington  70 pts

11 races held

Wet and cold day, wind from the Clubhouse at times, good A+.  Competition getting closer with 4 different sailors managing a win.

1st     John Brierley          14 pts
2nd   Neil Westbrook     15 pts
3rd   Colin Deakin           29 pts
4th   Alan  Watkinson    31 pts
5th   Dave Williams        32 pts
6th   Andrew Peter         34 pts
7th   Richard Walker     42 pts
8th   Derek Matthews   45 pts

10 races held

After the high winds of the weekend, we were greeted with an almost calm lake with just a slight amount at the top end, nevertheless seven hardy skippers took to the water under the watchful eyes of Sally and Ernie keeping strict control, 8 races were held with John taking all but one race.

1st.    John Brierley             6pts
2nd.  Dave Williams          15pts
3rd.   Neil Westbrook        19pts
4th.   Derek Matthews      24 pts. 1 x 2nd
5th.   Andrew Peter            24pts. 0 x 2nd
6th.   Alan Watkinson       25pts
7th.   Richard Walker         32pts

Well that was a different day, there was a whole 40 mph less breeze today which made the racing almost like…well…racing! A big fleet of thirty boats gathered on the start and raced as a well behaved single fleet which made your start absolutely crucial and made or messed your race before you got up the first beat.

Things started as they finished yesterday with Tushy taking the first two races before getting  mauled up the first beat in the third race which gave him his worst result of the day with an 18th. Race three also saw Yukio take his maiden win with the DF95, a stylish win for sure.

Tushy took race 4, 6 and 8, Pete Baldwin race 5, 7 and 10 . Mike Weston, sailing for a change took race 9 to his great delight! Tushy took 11 with Derek winning his only race with race 12, after that it was Tush all the way apart from 15 where he had issues!

As you’d imagine there were a good number of incidents throughout the day and turns were duly completed by the offenders which made the sailing good spirited throughout the fleet. As the day went on the weather got better and better with most people peeling off layers of clothing throughout the day.

Tushy of course won the day, 20 points ahead of a consistent Peter Baldwin with Derek in third spot three points back on 49. Buzz finished fourth with Tim Long in fifth spot after a testing mid morning session. Commodore John Brierley rounded out the top six.

Report courtesy Tim Long from the DFRacing website Results page

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