Due to the lack of entries for this Saturdays Marblehead racing at West Kirby Lake (30th June) the decision has been taken to cancel the event.
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Marblehead World Champion
In case anyone hasn’t already heard, Brad Gibson successfully defended his Marblehead World Champion Title in Germany, making it 4 in a row.
There is an excellent report by Darin Ballington on the MYA website so I won’t bother repeating the details here, but once again congratulations to Brad.
10r Worlds
Congratulations to Brad Gibson on retaining his 10r World Championship Crown at Biblis in Germany.
Christofe Boisnault (FRA) took second place and Mateo Longhi (ITA) third.
More details on the MYA Website
This Monday sees the start of the Marblehead World Championship at the same venue, where Brad will be joined by fellow club members Martin Roberts and Bill Culshaw. That event can be followed here
IOM News
This weekend, all eyes turn to Rogoznica, Croatia where the IOM European Championships are being held from 8th to 13th April. Anyone wanting to follow the progress of our local sailors can do so on the event website at http://www.iomec2018.com/
For those not fortunate enough to be in Croatia, Fleetwood MYPBC are holding their Mayoral Cup Open meeting for IOMs on Sunday 8th April – full details on the Fleetwood Website
Forthcoming Events – Easter Weekend
This coming Easter Weekend sees the start of our IOM series on Saturday 31st March (10 days in series, 6 best to count). A reminder that this year this is an Open Series and members from other MYA Clubs are welcome to attend (£2 on the day). Racing starts at 13.00 prompt.
For those with RG65s and DF65s, our friends at Fleetwood have announced a pop-up Open Event on Easter Monday starting at 09.45 Full details are available on the Fleetwood Website
On The Road – Travelling Members
All winter series racing has now come to a close and spring is in the air!
Well it did not feel like spring for the last race of the DF65 winter series at West Lancs SC, Southport last Sunday. Very cold but as in the previous races well attended by Birkenhead Club members. The series started in early January with barmy light winds and sunshine and finished in March in sub zero conditions and winds that blew dogs of the quay side.
Club members who attended all or parts of the series were Alan Watkinson, Dave Williams, Andrew Peter, Dave Pickup, Roger Lincoln and John Brierley. All agreed an excellent series which ran on alternate weekends along with our IOM Winter series at Gautby Rd.
Overall John Brierley won the event and Alan Watkinson was 4th
Attention now turns to the IOM ranking event at Lincoln this weekend with a good turn out of club members already on the entry list.
John Brierley
