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Marblehead Open Club events at West Kirby

Prior to the Marblehead Nationals which take place on Saturday and Sunday 20th/21st July, Birkenhead will host two Open events at West Kirby Sailing Club on the 1st and 29th June, which are open to all Marblehead sailors who wish to participate.

On each Saturday racing will start at 13:00, with a short briefing 15 minutes prior to first start.  There will be no Race started after 4:30 and if no boat has finished an A heat by 5:00, the Race will be abandoned. After sailing there will be a post race debrief and drink at the local “Farmers” pub.

Entry for the day will be £7 (payable on the day) and the WKSC clubhouse and bar will be open.  Please advise Graham Elliott if you are planning to attend so that he can gauge likely numbers.  Entries accepted up to and including the day of the event.

Contact details for Graham are elliottyachts@hotmail.co.uk and telephone 0151 678 4134

Entries for 29th June as of 24/6/19

  1. Bill Culshaw
  2. Martin Roberts
  3. Graham Elliott
  4. Andrea Roberts
  5. Damian Ackroyd
  6. Mike Parkington
  7. John Taylor
  8. John Tushingham
  9. Neil Westbrook
  10. Darin Ballington
  11. Tracey Ballington

RG65 TT Round 3

A good entry of 19 boats of which there were 7 different designs competing for round 3 of the RG65 TT at Birkenhead, where we were met with blue skies and a decent breeze of 6 to 8 knots straight down the lake, with all skippers opting for their number 1 rigs to start the days sailing.
We sailed 4 races before a quick cup of tea/coffee (and a piece of cake) with no one skipper quick out of the blocks. Martin Roberts did take 2 out of the first 4 but also scored heavily in the other 2 sailing a borrowed Scram for the day. Eight races were sailed before lunch and still no one skipper dominated with 5 different race winners and only a few points separating the top 5 boats it was obvious that consistency was going to win the day.
After lunch with the breeze building and skippers going down a rig at some point during the next four races, it was tight to the finish, finally after 17 races it was Martin Roberts who ground out the win on his maiden venture with an RG65 and gave the lad a smile from ear to ear.
We had two lady helms competing at this event, both enjoyed the champagne sailing with Liz Tushingham finishing in a well placed 7th and Susan Parkington 13th.
Thanks must go to  Judith Baldwin, Bernie, Neil and Chris Westbrook for their help and not forgetting John Brierley for supplying the scones and Bara brith to have with our tea.
There are a few more photographs in the Gallery.
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DragonForce Spring Series #6 8/5/19

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

IOM Club Series #4 4/5/19

1st    Bill Culshaw                 21                  13pts     5 x 1sts & 5 x 2nds
2nd   John Brierley               84                 13pts     5 x 1sts & 4 x 2nds
3rd    Lawrence Drennan   57                 23pts
4th    Alan Watkinson         23                 34pts
5th    John Berry                     12                 40pts

After 11 races sailed.  Wind was again straight down the middle (WNW)

Most of the day sailed in Top Suit, but ended with last 5 races in 2nd suit.

DragonForce Spring Series #5 1/5/19

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

DF TT Round 6 (DF95) Sunday 28th April

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.

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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

Full Results below, click on the image to expand.