Unfortunately the lake is frozen again and the pathways around the club are treacherous with icy slush. Sailing on Wednesday 17th January is therefore cancelled. Hopefully with milder weather forecast for the weekend and into next week, the lake should defrost.
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Lake Clear
After the lower temperatures earlier in the week, the lake is now free from ice and should stay that way for sailing tomorrow, Saturday 13th January.
DF65 Social Racing 2024 – 10/1/24
Another brilliant turnout of 16 skippers hoping to have a pleasant mornings sailing. Unfortunately a thin layer of ice put paid to that. So better luck next Wednesday.
We are hopeful that an increase in temperature will thaw the ice for IOM racing on Saturday.
DF95 Winter Series 2023 #2 – 6/1/24
The forecast for today was sunny but light winds from the NNW or N. Fortunately, although we did have a light breeze with holes in, it was more generally 1 to 5 knots WNW to NW with occasional shifts to the N.
There was an excellent turnout of 13 boats for this second Winter Series for the DF95 and we had some very close races with a good spread of 5 helms taking at least one win. Occasionally one boat might get away from the fleet, but generally the finishes were closely contested through the fleet with positions and the lead often changing during the last leg from the gate through to the finish.
Peter Baldwin made the most of the conditions picking up 4 wins and overall first place, but John Brierley although having only one win was very consistent, discarding a third and fourth to take second place ahead of Martin Roberts who had two wins, but was not as consistent. Special mention must go to John Carlin (2 wins) and Clive Warren (1 win) who both managed to pull away from the fleet for their race wins and leave the rest to fight for the remaining places.
During the afternoon, there was plenty of help being given towards sailors throughout the fleet on tactics and boat setup suggestions to help the fleet improve and in the later races the fleet was definitely less spread out at the finish and windward mark roundings were very close.
Thanks must go to Neil Westbrook for acting as our RO for the afternoon, keeping us all in line with several individual recalls and a few general recalls as well. In addition, here are a full set of results thanks to Malcolm Harvey.
Don’t forget that the DF TT series Rounds 1 & 2 will take place at West Lancs YC (Sothport) on the 20th (DF65) and 21st (DF95) January. This event is one of the closest locations to Birkenhead (it can be done as a day trip) and where you can gain more experience racing in larger fleets.
Next week (13th Jan) is the IOM Winter series #3.
DF65 Social Racing 2024 – 3/1/23
Happy New Year to all memmbers and followers of the club.
Ten sailors keen to start the new year’s racing program, arrived only to find a complete lack of wind and a flooded pathway. The flooding was easily dealt with, but not so the lack of wind. After the usual discussions about Christmas and New Year celebrations, a decision was then made to cancel the meeting and hope for better on Saturday for the DF95 Winter Series #2, with 10 entries to date.
Photos from DF65 & DF95 Social Racing
I have added photos taken by Mark Warren during the recent DF65 and DF95 Social Racing day on Wednesday 20/12/23. They are both available as separate albums in the Gallery section of the website.
