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Recent Club Successes at Open Events

RG65 French Nationals 23rd to 25th September 2022

Firstly, many congratulations to Graham Elliott for winning the recent RG65 French Nationals.  A tricky 3 heat event at a coastal venue of VRC Voile Radiocommandée à ANTIBES. After 13 races over two and half days of racing, Graham (Electronica) took top place on the podium with 40 points, with Matteo Longhi (Skinny) in second on 43.6 points and Victor Izquierdo (Uno) in third on 54 points.

Full results are here

List of Entries with Designs is here

DFTT Rounds 11 (DF65) and 12 (DF95) at Fleetwood 24th and 25th September 2022

The DF65 event was sailed in a light NE breeze using A+ rigs and won by John Tushingham with top placed club sailors John Brierley second, David Potter 5th and Peter Baldwin 8th.

DF65 Final Results are here

The DF95 event started in a light NW breeze with A rigs and this built during the day to end in C rigs.  John Tushingham again won the event, with best placed  club sailors John Brierley 3rd, David Potter 4th and Peter Baldwin 5th, with these three separated by only 3 points.

DF95 Results are here

DF65 Social Racing 2022 (21/9/22)

6 keen sailors arrived to be greeted by a slight wind from the clubhouse end. A course was set from the middle of the lake to a starboard rounding of the windward mark, starboard around the spreader, downwind to a port rounding of the start mark to a finish by the clubhouse.

All starts were without recalls, as as to be called back would have been disastrous. The rounding of the windward mark in the light wind caught out several skippers with penalty turns in abundance. In most races the last 30 meters was the most challenging with the clear leader becoming becalmed and the chasing boats overtaking. Special mention of new member Frans King on his debut race, managing a second and third. Thanks go to RO Dave Williams who managed to run 9 races.

  1. Neil Westbrook       11pts 4 wins
  2. Alan Watkinson      14pts 3 wins
  3. Mike de St Paer       20 pts 1 win, 2 seconds, 2 third
  4. John Carlin                20pts 1 win, 2 seconds, 1 third
  5. Andrew Potter          30pts
  6. Frans King                 30pts

IOM Summer 2022 #9 (17/9/22)

There were only a select band of three sailors for this weeks IOM racing,  held in a decent middle to top A Rig breeze from the far end. After convincingly winning Race 1, Bill Culshaw had a few problems on the race course with various “objects” in the water stopping him dead and robbing him of his leading position and probably the win in several races.  This allowed Peter Baldwin to string together a  series of 6 straight wins after a second in Race 1.  Alan Watkinson initially struggled to keep in the mix and after 3 races noted that his rudder shaft was bent and so a short stop was called to allow him to change his rudder over.  This did help such that he was now challenging the other pair for the lead, culminating in winning Race 8.

The day went to Peter with 8 wins, three for Bill in second and just the one for Alan in third.  Thanks go to Dave Williams for running the afternoon and giving us an early finish after 12 races, ably assisted by Bernie for the last few races after putting in a welcome guest appearance.

The next IOM racing will be on Saturday 8th October (all day) when Summer Series #10 is also the Strebor Open, with a planned start time of 10:00.  Entry via the Event link.  It will be good to see more club IOM’s turning out for this annual Open Event.

  1. Peter Baldwin         63   britpop!     12pts  8 wins
  2. Bill Culshaw             21    britpop!    18pts   3 wins
  3. Alan Watkinson      23    britpop!    24pts  1 win

 

DF65 Social Racing 2022 (14/8/22)

10 members arrived to be greeted by a cold top of A+ wind blowing straight down the lake. With each sailor taking turn as RO we managed 9 races! Unfortunately gear failure took Malcolm out after four races.

Our Commodore took the honours with 6 wins and John C with his consistent sailing took second just one point away from Andrew Peter. There were many close races with places gained tacking on the correct shift and keeping above the water on the downwind leg.

  1. John Brierley          6 pts 6 win
  2. John Carlin             12 pts 1 win
  3. Andrew Peter         13 pts 1 win
  4. Andrew Potter      23 pts
  5. Dave Williams       24 pts 1 win
  6. Neil Westbrook     28 pts
  7. Alan Watkinson   30 pts
  8. Paul Hounslow     39 pts 2 x 4th
  9. John Beech             39 pts 0 x 4th
  10. Malcolm Harvey   68 pts