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DF65 Social Racing 2023 – 31/5/23

Another good turnout for DF racing. The wind was N.Easterly ish, with the usual holes, lifts, and gusts and a coolish air temperature.

John Carlin won the first race and went on to dominate the day’s racing with a total of 6 wins and an excellent 11 point score after discards.

There was much close racing throughout the day, with a very port end biased line making for some interesting starts. These included starboard tack boats being tagged by those attempting port end flyers, and quite a bit of boat to boat contact with a couple of starts looking like a real melee.

John was followed by Clive, who had two wins and then Mike with one win and a certain amount of radio trouble, along with Neil, Alan and Charles who all suffered with some boat issues during the day.

Overall excellent racing with the overall fleet standard still improving.

Final Positions were:

  1. John Carlin                                  11 pts          6 wins
  2. Clive Warren                              27 pts          2 wins
  3. Mike de St Paer                         29 pts          1 win
  4. Neil Westbrook                         31 pts           1 win
  5. Dave Williams                           31 pts
  6. Richard Walker                         43 pts
  7. Frans King                                  45 pts
  8. John Beech                                  48 pts
  9. Alan Watkinson                         57 pts
  10. Charles Legg                               63 pts
  11. Don Mackinnon                         69 pts
  12. Martin Whittingham-Jones 79 pts

DF/RG65 Summers Series 2023 #3 – 27/5/23

A depleted turnout of only 6 sailors due to illness, Graham competing in France, Martin competing in Lincoln and some off on holidays.  A really good sunny afternoon with a decent wind from the top end of the lake with quite a few shifts to gamble on.

A bad first race for Bill with his battery failing straight after the start enabled John to take his first win closely followed by Alan in second. The next three races were Bills’ with John and Dave fighting over second place. John managed another two wins but the rest of the day went Bills way with another six wins from a closely followed John.

Further down the fleet, Neil and Clive were having their own private battle with Neil eventually coming out on top.

  1. Bill Culshaw          Ivy          11 pts 9wins
  2. John Brierley        Uno         17 pts 3 wins
  3. Alan Watkinson  Uno         29 pts
  4. Dave Williams      Uno         41 pts
  5. Neil Westbrook    Uno         45 pts
  6. Clive Warren         Scuttle   48 pts

DF65 Social Racing 2023 – 24/5/23

An almost perfect sailing day, with a fresh NW breeze, with some substantial gusts to keep you ‘on your toes’, and make life on the water more interesting. The results show just how incredibly close the racing was, with wins shared by seven sailors across the fleet.The sun shone all morning, and we chased a brood of 8 baby ducklings with their mother up and down the lake. They quickly learned how to keep out of the way, after some very near misses on the first race.

John Carlin                                     11    35 Pts
Alan Watkinson                         373   36 Pts
Clive Warren                                 53   51 Pts
James Douglas                             73   52 Pts
Andrew Peter                             919   53 Pts
Neil Westbrook                           03   54 Pts
Mike De St Paer                           35   65 Pts
Don Mckinnon                          933   71 Pts
Richard Walker                            39  76 Pts
Dave Williams                              33   81 Pts
Charles Legg                                 21   91 Pts [ 1 X 4th ]
John Beech                                     80  91 Pts [ 1 X 5th ]
Frans King                                     95  113 Pts
Martin Wittingham-Jones     54  166 Pts [ Rtd ]

DF65 Social Racing 2023 – 3/5/23

With a brisk SE breeze blowing from behind the clubhouse and down the lake, some optimists rigged A plus, but it became apparent even before the first race that the sensible option was an A Rig.

9 sailors took turns as RO, so 9 races, and the gusting wind gave everyone a nose dive or two, which meant race places changed frequently.  This resulted in Race Wins spread across the fleet, with Alan Watkinson taking 4 wins to take the day, John Carlin 2 wins, and Andrew Peter, Frans King and Stan Metcalf all managing a race win apiece.

Very close racing, as the scores show, and welcome sunshine and more than enough wind, made for a very pleasant and enjoyable day’s sailing.

  1.   373   Alan Watkinson 15 pts
  2.      11   John Carlin           17 pts
  3.   919   Andrew Peter     31 pts
  4.    95   Frans King           37 pts
  5.    33    Dave Williams    39 pts
  6.    46    Stan Metcalf       42 pts
  7.    39    Richard Walker  43 pts
  8.    21     Charles Legg       47 pts
  9.    80    John Beech          53 pts

VMYG & Open Sailing Day Saturday 22nd April

This coming Saturday is an Open Sailing and Vintage Model Yacht Group (VMYG) Day.  Please bring along whatever boat you wish to sail in the friendly company of others.  All are welcome including any non-member or potential member.  It would be helpful if you could use the link in Upcoming Events to show you interest in participating.  Here are some pictures taken at one of the previous events.

DF65 Social Racing 2023 19/4/23

A deceptive wind from the Clubhouse end made the thinking to go A+. After the first race it was decided that was a bad decision and all changed to A rig.

Mike was the complete master of the conditions, taking eight races without any real competition. Those behind notably James, Alan, John and Neil were fighting for second place honours with some very close racing between them. Clive started well but his last four race results pulled him down.

Twelve races were held.

  1. Mike de St Paer     10 pts 8wins
  2. James Douglas      22 pts 3wins
  3. John Carlin             29 pts
  4. Alan Watkinson   30 pts 1 win
  5. Clive Warren         37pts
  6. Neil Westbrook    45 pts
  7. Andrew Potter      56 pts
  8. Dave Williams      59 pts
  9. John Beech             65 pts
  10. Paul Little               71 pts
  11. Malcolm Harvey  76 pts
  12. Frans King              77 pts